Sean Carroll: The multiverse might be impossible to test directly. Even if such a theory were true, the worry goes, how would we ever know? Is it scientific to even talk about it?
Research on the link between implicit race preference and brain activity could be used to prevent unintended consequences of race bias
In a novel study of health disparities in the United States, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have identified 22 socioeconomic and environmental variables that together are better indicators of early death than are race or geography. The findings upend long-held beliefs that where you live and the color of your skin are the best…
Once again, science, religion and politics have become entwined in a thorny public policy debate. This time, however, the discussion is not about abortion, birth control or health insurance mandates. It’s about wolves. Specifically, a bill in the Wisconsin Legislature to authorize a hunting season on wolves. Hunters approve of the season, and Republicans are…
The UN has urged countries to seek a “peaceful resolution” in cyberspace to avoid the threat of global cyberwar. The comments by the head of the UN’s telecommunications agency came a week after Flame, one of the most complex cyber-attacks to date, was uncovered. Dr Hamadoun Toure told the BBC that he did not suspect…
A strange picture of odd, spherical rock formations on Mars from NASA’s Opportunity rover has scientists scratching their heads over what exactly they’re looking at. The new Mars photo by Opportunity shows a close-up of a rock outcrop called Kirkwood covered in blister-like bumps that mission scientists can’t yet explain. At first blush, the formations…
A greater commitment to multidisciplinary research, and to local problem solving, is essential to achieving future development goals. UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon recently announced the members of the panel that has been given the challenge of defining the global development agenda after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015. The panel’s first meeting, scheduled…