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Americans Win Nobel Economics Prize
Two American economists won the Nobel Prize in economics for their research into how to match different actors in...
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Is a Train-Wreck Looming for Social Psychology?
Daniel Kahneman sent an e-mail last week to a dozen social psychologists, spelling out what he sees as a...
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Social Media and Social Good
Social media was a major force behind last year’s Arab Spring, after communities organized and overthrew tyrannical dictators, as...
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Does Record Number of Religious ‘Nones’ Mean Decline of Religiosity?
“ ‘Nones’ On the Rise,” released by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in affiliation with PBS’...
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Megacities Pose Serious Health Challenge
Rapid urbanization will take a heavy toll on public health if city planning and development do not incorporate measures...
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Spineless Critter Had Oldest Complex Brain
A 520-million-year-old, three-inch fossil has yielded evidence that complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought. The preserved external...
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Stem Cell Opponents File Appeal With U.S. Supreme Court
It’s been 3 years since the legality of federal funding for research involving human embryonic stem cells (hESC) was...
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New World Bank Head Wants to Address Climate Change
Jim Yong Kim, the new president of the World Bank, said that dealing with climate change will be one...
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Saving Nature Will Require Billions
Reducing the risk of extinction for threatened species and establishing protected areas for nature will cost the world over...
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New Theory of Early Animal Evolution
A New York Medical College developmental biologist whose life’s work has supported the theory of evolution has developed a...
