BIG Questions – Page 58

Slime Has Memory but No Brain
By the Editor on October 9, 2012
The living slime that may have been the muse for the 1958 science-fiction film The Blob just got creepier:...
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Inspiring Eureka: Rethinking Math and Science Education
By the Editor on October 8, 2012
The United States ranks just 31st globally in student achievement in math. Annually, fewer than 60,000 American college graduates...
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New Surveys Peer Through Dust to Reveal Supermassive Black Holes
By the Editor on October 8, 2012
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have used cutting-edge infrared surveys of the sky to discover a new population...
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Of the Creation Persuasion
By the Editor on October 8, 2012
From SciAm guest blogger Kyle Hill: The Earth is flat. A full moon leads to more crime. Humans were...
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U.S. Rep: Evolution, Big Bang ‘Lies Straight From the Pit of Hell’
By the Editor on October 8, 2012
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) tore into scientists as tools of the devil in a speech at the Liberty Baptist...
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Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Stem-Cell Work
By the Editor on October 8, 2012
John B. Gurdon of the U.K. and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan shared this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
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Learning a New Language Expands the Brain
By the Editor on October 8, 2012
Learning a new language makes the brain grow, according to researchers who studied young recruits at the Swedish Armed...
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NASA Discovers a New Black Hole in Milky Way Galaxy
By the Editor on October 8, 2012
NASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our...
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Leading the STEM Challenge
By the Editor on October 6, 2012
Despite the flurry of campaign attack ads claiming candidates are either job killers or job creators, one thing remains...
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Romney’s America Doesn’t Need Public Colleges
By the Editor on October 6, 2012
A Romney presidency would pose an obvious hardship for the country’s public colleges and universities. Romney and Ryan, austerity...
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