Science

Settling Ownership of the Bounty of the High Seas

Susan Lieberman, Ph.D | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, Pew Environment Group, Science, Oceans, International Waters, High Seas, Endangered Fish, Overfishing, Endangered Species High Seas, Green News
Susan Lieberman, Ph.D

Many ocean species that are over-exploited and traded internationally live in areas beyond national jurisdiction, a region known as the high seas that starts 200 miles from shore and covers half the Earth.

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Cara Santa Maria

5 Things Rush Limbaugh Should Learn About Birth Control

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Video, The Pill, Rush Limbaugh, Gynecology, Talk Nerdy to Me, Shari Brasner, Sandra Fluke, Science, Contraception, Cara Santa Maria, Birth Control, Health Insurance, Oral Contraceptives, Science News

2012-03-08-Screenshot20120308at8.35.48AM.jpgRush Limbaugh made some comments this past week that raised more than a few eyebrows. In addition to being anti-woman, what he said is fundamentally anti-science.

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Am I My Genes? The Question Of Fate, Free Will And Genetics

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Religion, Metaphysics, Mental Health, Health, Ethics, Science, Coping, Genetics, Religion and Science, Medicine, Bioethics, Spirituality, Religion News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

Some feel that God is the ultimate cause of disease. Others don't know what to believe and ponder the "cosmic roll of the dice." "There has to be a purpose to all this happening," one woman told me. "There has to be."

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Science And Religion: Incompatible?

Kenneth R. Miller | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Science, Religion, Religion and Science, Home News
Kenneth R. Miller

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

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Science And Religion: Incompatible?

Michael Shermer | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Science, Religion, Religion and Science, Home News
Michael Shermer

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival. Not religion.

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5 Scientists (and Dr. Oz) Make Clean Air Sense

Ronnie Citron-Fink | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Environment, Asthma, Coal, Economics, Politics, Alliances, Science, Resources, Mercury Poisoning, Pollution, Green News
Ronnie Citron-Fink

Scientists know that stripping the EPA of its ability to protect our children against environmental pollutants means more asthma attacks, more respiratory illnesses and disease, and more premature deaths.

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Is This Experiment Justifiable?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Laboratory Animals, Primate Research, Neuroscience, Video, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Brain, Humane Treatment of Animals, Talk Nerdy to Me, Tom Holder, Science, Cara Santa Maria, Animal Research, Monkeys, Science News

2012-03-07-Screenshot20120307at9.06.58AM.jpgWhen it comes down to it, aren't we mostly debating an arbitrary line that's been drawn in the sand with what is and what isn't acceptable in animal research?

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Of Vacations Past and Future

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Planetarium, Boston, Science, Travel, Boston University, History, Nasa, Astronomy, Space Exploration, College, Space, Museums, International Space Station, Space History, Astronauts, College News
Zoe P. Strassfield

Only one week of classes stands between Boston University's student body and spring break, and the halls are ringing with the ever-popular question, "Where are you going?"

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: What's It Feel Like To Age Fifty Years In Fifteen Minutes?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Elderly, Aging, Video, Geriatric, Aging Suit, Talk Nerdy to Me, Age, Agelab, Science, Cara Santa Maria, Agnes, Age Gain Now Empathy System, Mit, Science News

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What To Watch This Week

The Huffington Post | Laura Prudom | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Once Upon a Time, Megan Mullally, Sean Hayes, Hoarding: Buried Alive, Face Off, An Idiot Abroad, Breaking In, Woody Harrelson, Cbs, Ricky Gervais, Parks and Recreation, Brice Williams, Video, Julianne Moore, Southland, Awake, Idina Menzel, Katy Petty, Abc, John Heilemann, Sarah Chalke, The Mentalist, Jay Roach, Nbc, Glee, Danny Strong, John McCain, Science, Slidewide, Stephen Merchant, Wicked, Smash, Laura Innes, Mark Halperin, Starz, Cougar Town, TV Canada, Ed Harris, Happy Endings, Person of Interest, Bob's Burgers, Sarah Palin, Syfy, The Lying Game, Raising Hope, Morgan Walsh, Spartacus: Vengeance, Game Change, TV News

TV is chock-full of celebrities this week. Katy Perry makes an appearance as a not-so-glamorous prison guard on Fox's "Raising Hope" on Tuesday. Se...

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Is God In The Brain?

Dr. Douglas Fields | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Hinduism, Jews, Neuroscience, Shimon Peres, God, Brain, Science, Muslims, Christianity, God Brain, God-in-the-Brain, Religion and Science, Religion News
Dr. Douglas Fields

Science and religion are different worlds, but fundamentally they are not antagonistic; they are part of the larger whole that defines all human beings.

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SEE: Observations of Light and Matter

Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Toronto, Brendan Monroe, Art, Art Meets Science, Toronto-Art-Scene, Mathematics, Science, Contemporary Art, Surrealism, Cooper-Cole-Gallery, Painting, Slidepollajax, Video, Arts News

For "Observations of Light and Matter" at Toronto's Cooper Cole Gallery, the artist Brendan Monroe takes us past a simple plane of isolation by incorp...

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Alan Alda Seeks 11-Year-Olds For Science Contest

Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Alan Alda, Center for Communicating Science, Experiment, Flame, Video, Science, Stony Brook University, Science Questions, Scientific Curiosity, Science News

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/02/2012 03:30 PM EST on LiveScience As an 11-year-old, future actor Alan Alda asked his...

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Academic Freedom Wins in Cuccinelli Climate Case

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Anti-Science, Ken Cuccinelli, Science, Academic Freedom, Climate Change Denial, Michael Mann, Virginia, Penn State, Climate Change, Virginia Supreme Court, University of Virginia, Global Warming, Science News
Shawn Lawrence Otto

In a big win for academic freedom over the forces of creeping authoritarianism, the Virginia Supreme Court today sided with the University of Virginia in its fight against Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's investigation of climate scientist Michael Mann.

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Nobody Expects... the Scientific Inquisition!

Nicholas Warner | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Satire, Science, Evolution, Politicians Science, Rick Santorum Science, Global Warming, Comedy News
Nicholas Warner

A crucial first step is to create scientific excommunication for heretical statements and practices that directly violate the Doctrines of Science. The excommunicated will be denied all the Sacraments of Science that have been developed over the last 2,000 years.

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Why Is Heartland Institute's president Joe Bast So Concerned?

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Science, Climate Change Denial, Heartland Institute, Green News
Shawn Lawrence Otto

How did Mosher and other Heartland-aligned climate denial bloggers know immediately and with such a high confidence that the whistleblower was Peter Gleick when as we see this is tricky stuff, and why is Joe Bast going to such great lengths to disavow the memo?

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Why I Am An Accommodationist

Robert J. Asher | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Science, Evolution, God, Charles Darwin, Religion and Science, Science Education, Atheism, Accommodationism, Religion News
Robert J. Asher

In the sense that I believe in God, I am religious. However, I empathize with skeptics who, once they hear a believer begin with a phrase like "God's love" or "religious truth," dismiss the claims on history that often follow.

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A Bipartisan Understanding of Basic Climate Reality?

A. Siegel | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Anti-Science, Science, Polling, Anti-Science Syndrome, Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Warming, Global Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Green News
A. Siegel

Roughly one in six of those polled believe that the scientific community is engaged in a global conspiracy to distort science when it comes to climate change. Such a fundamental disdain for the scientific community and scientists cannot be called anything other than anti-science.

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Cara Santa Maria

TALK NERDY TO ME: These Kids Are Rocket Scientists, Literally

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Stem, Rocket Fuel, Video, Traveler, Talk Nerdy to Me, Rocket Lab, Space, Rocket Propulsion Lab, University of Southern California, Science, Rocket Scientist, Cara Santa Maria, Usc, Students, Engineering, Science News

This team of undergraduate researchers with a bold mission: to design, build, and launch high powered rockets from scratch, and eventually reach the outer limits of Earth's atmosphere.2012-02-29-Screenshot20120229at8.01.22AM.jpg

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This Is Your Brain On Dance!

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Neuroscience, Choreography, Video, Riley Watts, Urban Living, Art Meets Science, Brain, Dr. Emily Cross, Science, Dance, Neurology, Bangar University, Neuroaesthetics, Arts News

We can guess what our brains go through while we're dancing; we experience euphoria, elation, happiness, and probably nervousness for those with two l...

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Adding One Million More for America's Future

Mary Ann Rankin | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Workforce, President Barack Obama, Science, Technology, STEM Education, College Graduates, Nmsi, Pcast, Education News
Mary Ann Rankin

Long regarded as the world's preeminent place to study and practice the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, the U.S. has recently been losing ground in these disciplines to other parts of the world.

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Cara Santa Maria

TALK NERDY TO ME: Our Favorite Astrophysicist Geeks Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Rose Center, Video, Astrophysics, Space Chronicles, Astronomy, Saturn, Talk Nerdy to Me, Space, Office, American Museum of Natural History, Science, Cara Santa Maria, Hayden Planetarium, Cosmos, New York City, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Science News

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Sunday With the Sea Lions

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: New-England-Aquarium, Biology, Sea Lions, Aquarium, Boston, Seals, Science, Oceans, Animals, Marine Biology, Coral Reefs, Ocean, College News
Zoe P. Strassfield

Every now and then, they would roll over to scratch an itch, and then return to lying there serenely with their eyes closed. Those sea lions, I thought, had the right idea about how to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon.

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Education Is Key to an "All-of-the-Above" Energy Policy

David Holt | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Energy, Stem, Math, Clean Energy Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy, Science, Manufacturing, Obama State of the Union, Innovation, Consumer Energy Alliance, 2012 State of the Union, STEM Education, Green Energy, Energy Revolution, Education News
David Holt

Educators and parents have long recognized the need to focus more on math and science. Now, it is time for policymakers, businesses and communities to stand up and play a more active role in training our next generation of energy professionals.

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Buddhism, Cosmology And Evolution

John Stanley | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Dalai Lama, Economy, Extinction, Climate Science, Charles Darwin, Science, Evolution, Buddhism, Religion News
John Stanley

If we restore the fundamental unity of spirit and matter, artificially split apart by scientific materialism, the scientific story of the universe can also serve beautifully as our new sacred story.

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