Category: Business and Economy
In recent years, the government has made moves to support making the results of taxpayer-funded research available to taxpayers for free. A new bill in Congress attempts to pull the plug.
Students have a laundry list of reasons why writing is one of their least favorite subjects. How do we adjust this mind set through incorporating science?
This article will explore tips, tricks, and techniques of using science to actually excite students about writing in school at all age levels K-12. Teachers and students- you no longer have to dread writing time!

The problem of conflicts of interest in science is not going to go away.
What's in the Stimulus Package for science?
Using the formula:
Every 7 pounds overweight = $1.00usd per hour of exercise at a federally funded and run gyms; there will be a yearly maximum of $1000.
For all of the conveniences of online shopping -- no crowds, easy parking, seemingly endless choices -- it can't always compete with the real thing. At least not yet.
The recession may be responsible for a slump of a different sort: an unexpected dive in shark attacks, says a University of Florida researcher.
A comprehensive set of insurance, payment, and system reforms could guarantee affordable health insurance coverage, improve health outcomes, and slow the growth of health spending by $3 trillion by the end of the next decade, according to a new report released today by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.
Demand for inexpensive products virtually guarantees future repeats of food adulteration and counterfeiting from overseas.
A new study from Lifespan evaluated the research to date on the impact of cognitive training on the healthy elderly population.
Can money make us happy if we spend it on the right purchases?
Outpatient surgery visits accounted for about half of all surgery visits in 1996 but nearly two thirds of all surgery visits in 2006.
Axentis Pharma AG is to present its recent successes in developing and financing a new therapeutic formulation for treating chronic lung disease at the 2nd Annual European Life Science CEO Forum in Zurich, Switzerland.
When TV viewers like a company's Super Bowl commercial, the company's stock price goes up, according to a study by researchers at the University at Buffalo School of Management and Cornell University.
A family sociologist at the University at Buffalo says this month's murder-suicides involving a family of four in Ohio and a family of five in California may be "just the tip of the iceberg."