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Russia’s rapidly expanding nuclear industry has set it sights on the freezing waters of Arctic basin with an ambitious goal to build the world’s largest “universal” nuclear icebreaker.
There’s a scene in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas in which the writer, high out of his mind on hallucinogens, watches a roomful of casino patrons transform into giant lizards and lunge at each other in bloody combat...
Today began with a double double espresso and a talk by Ulrike Felt. It’s a good way to start the day.Dr. Felt is a professor of sociology at the University of Vienna (Austria) and presented on the effects of storytelling in science...
Sara Alvarez was afraid.The doctors told her she needed surgery — brain surgery. Operations on such a complex organ are never simple, but this procedure was exceptionally difficult.
The International Conference on Science Communication kicks off today in Nancy, France. Named after the famed French physicist Hubert Curien, “the Journées Hubert Curien de la Culture Scientifique et Technique,” expects more than 600 participants from 67 countries, according to the press release issued last week.Tonight’s activities begin with a cocktail reception at 6 p.m...
First things first. Let’s get you up to speed on the gestation research that fed the media that fed the pregnancy questions that sparked this post.Some impressive colleagues and I just published a paper (1) that pulls the rug out from under a classic anthropological hypothesis that suggests the bipedal-adapted human pelvis constrains human gestation and fetal growth...
I spent this past week in Alaska with my family, during what was the entirety of my summer vacation this year (thank you medical school). We flew into Seattle early last Saturday and boarded a cruise liner from that beautiful pine and spruce-lined coast.After only two relaxing days at sea, which involved a lot of sleeping and quiet reading, we reached the Alaskan coastline...
Bill Nye, the nerdy supernova that fostered my childhood love of science, has recently gone viral in a video highly critical of the teaching of creationism to children.
Have you seen the new video by Bill Nye called “Creationism is not appropriate for children”? The video simply shows Nye standing in front of a white background and speaking, for two minutes, thirty seconds...
My high school students recently did something that rarely happens in a science classroom…they did science.Although, inquiry based instruction has long been a science education buzz phrase, all too often when kids engage in developing experiments, the answers are in fact already known to science and could be discovered through a quick Google search on the topic...
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