By: Leonard David Published: 12/31/2012 01:26 PM EST on SPACE.com A report this month from the National Research Council (NRC) has called NASA’s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas does not pose a high risk for triggering earthquakes lar...
Many Americans support capital punishment, but researchers can't tell whether it deters murder since the studies being used are badly flawed. That'...
WASHINGTON -- A new report says there is no reliable research on whether the death penalty has any effect on the murder rate, more than 35 years since...
Most educators already know that we should be teaching analysis, synthesis, and problem-solving, so perhaps our experiment with graduation exams will prompt us to follow the path we always knew we should be taking.
To take state standardized exams to the test, a Florida school board member sat down to take a version of the state's high-stakes 10th grade math and ...
When the National Research Council published the results of a decade-long study on the effects of standardized testing on student learning this summer...
The recent squall over SpongeBob SquarePants and his book about global climate change appears to have died down now. That's a pity. Sometimes, it's in the public interest to turn a squall into a hurricane.
With the goal of sparking big changes in K-12 science education across the country, an expert panel convened by the National Research Council today is...
Two new reports on standards-based accountability and incentive systems should end the current thrust of U.S. education policy.
Fifteen years in the making, the National Research Council's ratings of doctoral programs are -- according to chairman of the project committee Jeremi...
I don't often find much to cheer about when I read the food and farming news, but a new report from the influential National Research Council on the future of U.S. farming had me reaching for my pom-poms.
Studies continue to show that U.S. students' science literacy is very poor. The science curriculum advanced by creationist organizations make an already bad situation far worse.
WASHINGTON -- With the oceans absorbing more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide an hour, a National Research Council study released Thursday found ...
WASHINGTON -- A new study further bolsters concerns that pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean from China and other rapidly developing Asian nati...
The Hale-Bopp comet was discovered only two years before its passage by Earth, not nearly enough time to divert the comet. So much for the Deep Impact scenario.
We are in the grips of a military-industrial complex for whom projects such as the Boston Biolab are as much meat and potatoes as any multi-billion dollar weapon system, no matter how dubious the need.
Do common cleaners have toxic ingredients? They might. They might not. But until we know for certain -- who here cares to continue to experiment with the health of their children?
