Internet and Communication
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!
microRNAs are a recently discovered class of small RNA molecules which have huge regulatory potential. There have been a large number of papers coming out recently showing evidence suggesting their widespread roles in basic biological processes ranging from host-pathogen interaction to oncogenesis.
What's in the Stimulus Package for science?
Just a quick note about the newly created Facebook page for ScienceBlog.com. Followers can upload images & videos, share links and have some discussions. It's far from perfect, but Facebook’s ‘discussion board’ will let you post comments on individual pictures, links and videos.
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 book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus and its gender stereotypes on how the sexes communicate remains fodder for debate, but two Indiana University researchers have confirmed one thing: When men and women talk through technology, it's the women who are more expressive.
Sliced light is how we communicate now. Millions of phone calls and cable television shows per second are dispatched through fibers in the form of digital zeros and ones formed by chopping laser pulses into bits.
All year is a great time to learn more about science and the people who make the discoveries. But February offers a great opportunity to learn about the achievements of African-Americans (and others from the African Diaspora) in the sciences.
PulmoNet|Online Collaboration Portal and Social Network for Medical Professionals and Healthcare workers working on Tuberculosis
PulmoNet is an online Social Network and Collaboration Platform for pulmonologists and Healthcare professionals working in the field of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases.
Nothing kills innovation like having to reinvent the wheel. Imagine how dull your diet would be if you had to build a new stove and hammer out a few cooking pots every time you wanted to test a new recipe.
As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to new research.
Wikis have been a popular tool for collaboration elsewhere, and have been very successful. The obvious question is why not then in Biology and Medicine ?
A new study in the journal Psychology & Marketing investigates the influence of website design on children’s information processing. Results show that the type of interface used can significantly affect how children process and retain information; age strongly affected this relationship.
Automated text processing gone bad.
