Science

Methane in the Twilight Zone (Third Episode)

Nathan Currier | Posted 02.10.2012 | Green

Read More: Methane Emissions, Ecology, Green News, Climate Science, Climate Change, Environment, New York Times, Science, Global Warming, Methane, Green News

Do you like CSI? I remember the esteemed climate scientist Michael MacCracken once saying that climate researchers need to be like CSI investigators, prying out the truth from obscure clues.

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'Green News Report' - February 9, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.09.2012 | Green

Read More: Economy, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Nuclear Energy, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Republicans, Innovation, Solar Energy; Peak Oil, Whales, Gregory Jaczko, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Polyurethane, Plastic, Newt Gingrich, Rainforest, Ecuador, Rick Santorum, Science, Seaweed, Glaciers, Green Jobs, Fracking, Himalayas, Louisiana, Rising Sea Level, Fukushima, Wind Energy, Eminent Domain, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Santorum ...

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Federal Investments in Scientific Research Must Remain a Priority

Michael Ham | Posted 02.09.2012 | Science

Read More: Taxes, Science, Funding, Congress, Medicine, Ivf, Scientific Research, Federal Budget Deficit, Scientific Funding, Federal Grants, Science News

Pages of facts and statistics cannot adequately describe the impact research has on the lives of everyday Americans and the necessity of federal science funding.

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WATCH: From Pom-Poms To Primates: Mireya Mayor Talks Womanhood And Science

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 02.10.2012 | Science

Read More: Video, Lemurs, Talk Nerdy to Me, Madagascar, Cheerleader, Conversation, Female Scientist, Motherhood, Science, Cara Santa Maria, Mireya Mayor, Latino Prosperity, Women in Science, Interview, Science News

I first met Mireya Mayor a few weeks ago when she was the keynote speaker at this incredible science convention. We really hit it off, so I invited her to come chat with me over coffee.

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Life In Antarctic Lake? It's Everywhere Else

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 02.09.2012 | Green

Read More: Unexpected Lifeforms, Lake Vostok Microbes, Antarctica, Video, Microbial Life, Lake Vostok, Science, Underwater Lifeforms, Bacteria, Lake Vostok Antarctica, Ap, Green News

WASHINGTON (AP) — If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that som...

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Undo Damage to the Komen Reputation: Support Stem Cell Research

Don C. Reed | Posted 02.08.2012 | Politics

Read More: Science, Susan G. Komen, Religious Opposition, Breast Cancer, Embryonic Stem Cells, Politics News

Komen is hopefully returning to its former productive relationship with Planned Parenthood. But it must also remove any ideological prejudice against stem cell research, and get back in touch with mainstream American science.

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Honoring Darwin Day

Roy Speckhardt | Posted 02.08.2012 | Science

Read More: Charles Darwin, Science, Evolution, Darwin Day, Resolution, Darwin, Darwin Evolution, World Darwin Day, Charles Darwin Birthday, Science News

On Feb. 12 we'll commemorate the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. It must also be a day when we push back against the politicization and undermining of science by ideologues and zealots.

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WATCH: You Are Not Too Pretty To Do Math--Or Science!

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 02.08.2012 | Science

Read More: Women, Stem, Jane Goodall, Science, Mathematics, Girls in Science, Marie Curie, Engineering, Girls, Video, Math, Talk Nerdy to Me, Google Science Fair, Cara Santa Maria, Stereotype Threat, Technology, Women in Science, Science News

Women make up just about half of the American workforce, but we hold less than a quarter of the STEM jobs. Why is that?

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Indiana Creationism Bill Could Split State GOP Lawmakers

Lafayette Journal And Courier | Mikel Livingston | Posted 02.06.2012 | Politics

Read More: Indiana Senate, Public School Education, Indiana Legislature, Education, Indiana Creationism, Creation Science Bill, Creation Science, Indiana, Indiana Creationism Bill, Evolution Science, Science, Evolution, Indiana Vote, Indiana House, Politics News

If a bill that would enable the teaching of creation science alongside evolution makes it to a vote in the Indiana House, local Republican lawmakers a...

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Why I Teach Evolution In Church

Paul Wallace | Posted 02.05.2012 | Religion

Read More: Christianity, Religion, Science, Church, Evolution, Religion and Science, Religion News

The science problem in American churches is huge, and I'm one person in one church. But small steps are how big things get done.

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What Is Infinity? Artist's Eerie Answer to Key Scientific Question

Posted 02.06.2012 | Science

Read More: What Is Infinity, Infinity, Art, Video, Doug Wheeler, Physics, Science, Mathematics, Artists, Science News

By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 02/02/2012 01:57 PM EST on Lifes Little Mysteries As I stepped into the Infinity Environment on Wednesday morning (F...

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Space Porn (SFW)

Posted 02.03.2012 | Arts

Read More: Mars Pictures, Hirise, Nasa, Arts Meets Science, High-Resolution-Imaging-Science-Experiment, Mars Photographs, Space Porn, Science, Space Photos, Mars, University of Arizona, Motherboard, Arts News

You've seen food porn, you've seen design porn, you've seen other types of porn... now we bring you Space Porn! Thanks to the High Resolution Imaging ...

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Appearances of Strange Isolated Jungle Tribe Linked to Facebook IPO

David Fagin | Posted 02.02.2012 | Comedy

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Television, Reality TV, The Onion, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, Science, Keith Olbermann, The Daily Show, Comedy, Comedy News

While many world-renowned scientists have attributed the mysterious recent appearances of the primitive Mashco-Piro tribe on the banks of a jungle riv...

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Scientists Within 40 Feet Of Antarctic Lake Buried Under Millions Of Years Of Ice

Posted 02.02.2012 | Green

Read More: Video, Antarctica, Lake Vostok, Antarctic Lakes, Antarctic Ice Shelf, Science, Antarctic Subglacial Lakes, Antarctic Icemelt, Lake Vostok Antarctica, Green News

Deep beneath miles of Antarctic ice lies a large freshwater lake that will soon be exposed for the first time in millions of years. Lake Vostok, wh...

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Getting Practical With Your Sustainability Brand

Marc Stoiber | Posted 01.31.2012 | Green

Read More: John Tierney, Javier Flaim, Recyclebank, Kyoto Protocol, Cincinnati, Futureproof Brand, Science, NY Times, Green News

The key is to make green practical, not painful. To innovate our way past sacrifice to shiny efficiency without really letting consumers know they're using less.

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Wall Street Journal's Portrait of the Young Climate Scientist

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.02.2012 | Green

Read More: Chemistry, Climate Scientist, Climate Skeptics, Paul Crutzen, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Science, Peter Gleick, Wall Street Journal, Climate Change, Climate Science, Kevin Trenberth, Pollutants, Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Ozone, Global Temperatures, Green News

I guarantee that most scientists, myself included, would love to make their reputation by refuting the whole notion of global warming. We have tried and have concluded that we can't.

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Flying for Me

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 01.31.2012 | Science

Read More: Gregory Jarvis, Space Shuttle Challenger, Science, Mike Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Anniversary, 1990s, Judy Resnik, Challenger-Anniversary, History, Nasa, Space Exploration, Space, Francis Scobee, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair, Astronauts, Space Shuttle, Science News

Even though I was negative seven at the time of the accident, I salute the Challenger 7, and the opportunities they gave my generation. Because they were flying for me, too.

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Spring Term

Paul Stoller | Posted 01.30.2012 | College

Read More: Humanities, Corporate Expectations, College, Pedagogy, Adulthood, Science, Higher Education, Technology, Social Science, College News

I wonder if something important has been lost in the mix of campus building projects, recruitment and retention efforts and the barrage of new pedagogical technologies -- all to convince our students to stay and study.

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Kids Too Lazy To Pursue Science Careers? What Poll Shows

Posted 01.30.2012 | Science

Read More: Video, Math, Job, Careers, Science, Mathematics, Doctors, Technology, STEM Education, Eduation, Engineering, Scientists, Science News

David Mielach, BusinessNewsDaily Staff Writer First Published 01/30/2012 01:26 PM EST While job opportunities in science, technolog...

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Tinker and Change the World

Larry Bock | Posted 01.27.2012 | Impact

Read More: Science, STEM Education, DIY Projects, Engineering, Hands-on Education, Tinkering, USA Science & Engineering Festival, Hands-on Learning, Maker Movement, Teaching With Technology, DIY Movement, Impact News

Tinkering -- that hands-on, garage-based tradition -- is making a comeback among average Americans, promising to change our lives for the better on several fronts.

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Eames Video Takes Dizzying Trip Through Big And Small

Posted 01.27.2012 | Arts

Read More: Eames Design, Video, Powers of 10, Art Meets Science, Kees Boeke, Ice Cube, Ray and Charles Eames, Science, Ice Cube Eames, Eames Video, Cosmic View, Arts News

Legendary designers Ray and Charles Eames designed and defined American modernism. After finding harmony together, they managed to find a balance betw...

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The STEAM Camps Are Coming

John M. Eger | Posted 01.26.2012 | Arts

Read More: Creativity, Science, Innovation, Art, Education Reform, STEM Education, Steam, Arts News

It's early in the new year but educators across the country are already making plans for the summer and they are thinking STEAM... with the arts playi...

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PHOTOS: Amazing Images Of The 2012 Solar Storm

Posted 01.25.2012 | Science

Read More: Photography, Satellite Imagery, Nasa, Hubble Telescope, Solar Flares, Space, Science, Exposure, Sun, Space Photos, Solar Storms, Radiation, Science News

A solar storm created a dazzling light show in the northern latitudes of Earth on Tuesday. The storm also bombarded the Earth with radiation in the fo...

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Big History: Engaging the New Narrative of Science

William Grassie | Posted 01.25.2012 | Religion

Read More: History, Science, Evolution, Cosmology, Religion and Science, Interpretation, History of the Universe, Big History, Religion News

Religionists who deny certain facts of this Big History, who don't understand or accept the scope of the important details of this new unity of knowledge, do great damage.

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Homeless Science Whiz Knocked Out Of Scientist Contest

AP | Posted 01.25.2012 | Science

Read More: Science Competition, Video, Teenager, Homelessness, Intel Science Talent Search, Samantha Garvey, Science, Science Contest, New York, Intel, Science News

BRENTWOOD, N.Y. — A New York high school student who attracted national attention after it was reported that she was living in a homeless shelte...

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