Science & the Public

Humans

Whiz Kids: Its science and outreach

The filmmakers behind Whiz Kids would like to see their footage serve an educational purpose, perhaps through some online portal.

Tech

Whiz Kids: The Movie

New independent film showcases the arduous path by which extraodinary high school researchers reach the Science Talent Search competition in Washington, D.C.

Tech

Coming: Needed Protections for Science Integrity

The Obama admistration wants to depoliticize federal science.

Health & Medicine

Dangers of biomedical plagiarism

The bogus data present in plagiarized biomedical papers is not just an ethical lapse, but also a threat to effective medicine.

Health & Medicine

Study finds plenty of apparent plagiarism

Featured blog: A data-mining program looks for and finds plagiarism among scientific papers. The researchers survey the papers' writers and editors.

Climate

Obama’s budget would boost science

Featured blog: Here's a preview of what science programs the Obama administration plans to push in the coming year's federal budget.

Health & Medicine

Women: How bad is a regular nip?

Featured blog: A new study on alcohol and cancer deserves to be interpreted with a bit of caution.

Humans

DOE wants to become more like Bell Labs

Steven Chus prizes DOE's research prowess, but not it's ability to marshall its discoveries into marketable innovations.

Agriculture

Where do you eat?

Here's proof that we spend too much time mindlessly consuming food.

Tech

Stimulus: Substantial money for research infrastructure

Two agencies will share more than $1.25 billion to upgrade research equipment and facilities around the nation.

Humans

AAAS: Climate-friendly fish

Many intangibles determine how big — or small — the carbon footprint is of that fish you're thinking about eating.

Earth

AAAS: Climate-friendly dining … meats

The carbon footprints of raising livestock for food.