Tag: Science

A new study has shown that international collaborations have grown immensely, with very fruitful results.

What can go wrong when loudmouths spread fake information?

"We are not on the right track and we need to deal with that."

Both men and women who believe in God tend to be worse at math, study suggets.

The entirety of its scientific work will be made public at no cost whatsoever.

Explaining the human condition with clues from science.

It's high time something like this happened.

It's hard to quantify the total contribution of a university or research group to science, but the Nature Index is ...

So, what's the future going to look like ten years from now? What's the next big thing? Genomics, big data, ...

Weeding out bad science is an extremely complicated and delicate process, and short of peer review there's little left to ...

Backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, an Artificial Intelligence institute has launched a new, innovative and perhaps most importantly - ...

Image via Wikipedia. Scientific publishing is a competitive environment, under heavy scrutiny from reviewers, editor and peers. Over the years, ...

It's the science that makes you laugh, and then makes you think. It's a tradition not nearly as established as ...

A few days ago, we were telling you about a seemingly fake study on changing people's opinions on gay marriage. ...

Ijad Madisch a Harvard trained virologist and computer scientist was on his way to becoming a medical professor, but in ...

Science journal today seem to be dominated by positive results - that is those that are statistically significant and lead ...

The people in charge of funding for NASA and environmental research, Republican senators Ted Cruz and James Inhofe, have a ...

America's young scientists are constantly losing the battle to receive more funding. They're losing research dollars, leaving research altogether and ...

The Model Rules for Professional Conduct for attorneys urge all lawyers to give at least 50 hours of free legal ...

Photo: snapshot from the Wolf of Wall Street. I'm not referring to the world's billionaire elite, but to an exclusive group ...

An established astrophysicist, but more known thanks to his popular science programs, Neil deGrasse Tyson is a sensation on the ...

The 19 days long Government shutdown was finally lifted recently, as thousands of employees returned to their day jobs. The ...

Tibetan local community waiting for the Dalai Lama to renew his visit at Emory University. (c) New York TImes Reconciling ...

Superman is the granddaddy of every single super-powered hero in comics. Say what you will about Batman’s stealth, Spider-Man’s agility, ...

There’s no better way to foster interest in science and chemistry than seeing it in full, dazzling action. Most of ...

I really don't want to go into politics - we've never done that at ZME Science, and we never will. ...

Fed by ignorance, hypocrisy and frustration, members of an international group of eco-anarchist have, during the past few years, plotted ...

When you first hear of the work done by Miguel Nicolelis and his team, though the "cool factor" is high, ...

Almost all Nobel prize laureates are active in an artistic field as well as in science. They are 25 times ...

Evan Michael O’Dorney, only aged 17, a gifted math whiz-kid was awarded by $100,000 from the Intel Foundation for placing ...

With each passing year, science is becoming more and more visual,  and the pictures we get to see are more ...

Art and science almost always seem to be standing at opposite seats of the table, so it's really hard to ...

I have to say, this is one of the most attractive initiatives I've come across in quite a while. Basically, ...

A new study has shown that most people who think they have food alergies (over 80% in fact) actually don't ...

Yes ladies and gents, researchers have produced the whole genome sequence of the 3 billion "letters" (nucleotides) in the Neanderthalian ...

Well you've probably all seen the Myth Busters. I've watched some episodes and loved most of them, so I'm hoping ...

Stormy weather conditions may delay the launch of space shuttle Endeavour, currently scheduled for liftoff on Saturday, July 11. This ...

NASA's immediate future will likely have an emphasis on Earth science, using the International Space Station for research and development, ...

Probably 2008 will remain in history as the year of the economic crisis, or perhaps of the LHC, or perhaps ...

Oh boy time sure do flies! It seems just yesterday it was January... still, it's the 2nd day of Christmas ...

Who isn't paying attention when Al Gore is talking? The impact he has on people from America and all around ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons. What are Rainbows? Rainbows are some of the most spectacular phenomena in nature; they've fascinated and stimulated ...

  I really hope everybody knows who Einstein is, and many people know why he is famous and how he ...