A survey of how farmers could protect themselves by growing a greater diversity of crops, published in the March issue of BioScience, has highlighted economical steps that farmers could take to minimize the threat to crops from global climate change…
ATHENS, Ohio (Jan. 12, 2011) — Some school social workers report that they don’t feel equipped to handle incidents of cyberbullying among teens.
A new Ohio University-led survey of 399 members of the 11-state Midwest School Social Work Council …
Researchers have found that Medicare payments for non-invasive medical imaging, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans, are now higher to non-radiologists than to radiologists, according to a study in the Janua…
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — Recent progress in chalcogenide glass photonics has been driven by scientific and technological challenges in a variety of areas. These range from increased demand for bandwidth in optical communications, to the emergence of bi…
In many preschool classrooms, gender is very noticeable — think of the greeting, “Good morning, boys and girls” or the instruction, “Girls line up on this side, boys on that.” A new study has found that when teachers call attention to gender in the…
The November/December issue of the International Journal of Plant Sciences explores the current state of our knowledge of natural selection in plants.
“Plants were crucially important to Darwin’s development of the theory of natural selection (si…
Protected areas are generally seen as a triumph for the preservation of nature, yet the reality on the ground is more complex.
The world’s largest protected areas encompass vast amounts of wilderness but do not extensively overlap the highest prio…
MAYWOOD, Ill. — A dozen new epilepsy drugs are giving doctors and patients more options, but making treatment decisions more complex, a Loyola epilepsy specialist reports in the journal Neurologic Clinics.
“Clinicians practice in an era of abundan…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2010 — Key articles in a special print edition of the American Chemical Society journal, Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T), one of the world’s premier environmental journals, are now available online. The articles wil…
New Rochelle, NY, September 16, 2010 — Not only do undergraduate students gain valuable hands-on experience by participating in scientific research projects, but they also make meaningful contributions, examples of which are highlighted in the curr…
BETHESDA, MD, SEPT 2, 2010⎯The old joke is a joke no more. In a special September issue of the ASCB’s online journal, CBE — Life Sciences Education (CBE-LSE), the adage that biology is for science students who don’t do math is laid to rest for…
fire thought of as the quintessential human invention. Now scientists have found that emerging, more energy efficient lighting technologies could be the key to a better quality of life.
New research published today, Thursday, 19 August, in a spec…