Science & the Public
Where scienceand society meet
- Tech
Obama selects Steven Chu as Energy Secretary
Featured blog: Chu is an energy researcher who also shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics.
- Chemistry
ENV Tidbits: Corals, nano concerns, and more
News nuggets on climate-imperiled corals, nanotech worries, and soft drinks bearing pesticides.
- Humans
Obama Could Learn from ‘Junk Bros.’
Think what TV brothers who recycle trash could do with the outmoded structure of federal agencies.
- Earth
Biological Cadre Turns Political
Conservation scientists lobby the presidential-transition team to select an Interior Secretary who respects and defends science.
- Humans
Help NAS and Yourself
A science-backgrounder series for the public is coming, and you can help choose the topics.
- Humans
Science Reporting Fallout
Newspaper cutbacks are being linked to diminished science reporting.
- Humans
CNN downsizes science team
The move and timing for greatly restructuring science-and-environment coverage at the nation's all-news cable giant are perplexing.
- Humans
Real News: An Endangered Species
Forget Black Monday. What will happen now that it's beome a Black Year for news reporters at papers and other conventional media?
- Earth
Toxicologist to Become an NIH Director
A new director — equal parts scientist and communicator — will take over environmental-health agency.
- Chemistry
Nanosilver disinfects — but at what price?
Silver demonstrates some unusual immunological impacts at the nanoscale.
- Earth
Marine pollution spawns ‘wonky babies’
Featured blog: Pollutants at sea can slow critters' sperm or induce DNA damage.
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