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New Frontier for Topics in Science: Social Media
In surprising numbers, people posted, viewed and searched for science-related topics last year — sharing news from space and...
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The Top 10 ScienceNOW Stories of 2012
At the end of every December, ScienceNOW takes a look back at some of its favorite stories of the...
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Jared Diamond’s Tales From the World Before Yesterday
From John Brockman at Edge.org: Over the years I’ve had the privilege to work with some of the more...
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Climate Science Makes an Eleventh-Hour Comeback
This was the year climate change vanished from the political agenda – and then suddenly reappeared, after Hurricane Sandy...
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Tablet as Teacher: Poor Ethiopian Kids Learn ABCs
Using 20 tablet computers dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February by a group called One Laptop Per...
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Faith-Based Procrastination: Religious Job Bias in Taxpayer-Funded Program
No American should be denied a taxpayer-funded job because of what he or she believes about religion. Yet that’s...
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Ancient Temple, Ritual Figurines Found in Israel
Just outside of Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered a cache of vessels and figurines inside a 2,750-year-old temple that could...
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Just in Time for the Holidays: Endangered Species Condoms
The next time you think about having sex without birth control, The Center for Biological Diversity wants to make...
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Christmas Celebrations Around the World
From Mayanmar to Lithuania, and Jerusalem to Vatican City, the faithful gathered on Christmas 2012 in churches around the...
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Commerce Claus: The Behavioral Economics of Christmas
Some economists dislike Christmas. They allege that it “destroys value,” which is, in Econoland, the first and only sin....