Dec 22nd, 2008 · The agency may need an image makeover if it wants the expertise and cooperation of the nation's top researchers. According to the report, members of the scientific community would rather discuss their work with total strangers than an FBI agent.
Dec 16th, 2008 · Studying the growth of galaxy clusters has led researchers to new clues about the possible existence of dark energy. Though some say it could be that scientists just don't fully understand gravity yet.
Dec 12th, 2008 · The much-observed brain of amnesiac "H.M." will be sectioned and preserved for scientists to study. Jacopo Annese, director of The Brain Observatory at University of California, San Diego and the neuroscientist in charge of the procedure, explains what researchers hope to learn.
Dec 12th, 2008 · Researchers have spent the past four years poring over data from the Indian Ocean trying to find out if and when more giant quakes like the one that created the 2004 tsunami are likely. New techniques now suggest they are, within the next few decades.
Dec 11th, 2008 · President-elect Barack Obama is said to have chosen Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu to be Energy secretary. Chu was one of three scientists who shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1997 for work in cooling and trapping atoms with laser light.
Dec 11th, 2008 · A prominent scientist and actress have teamed up to assure the public that childhood vaccines don't cause autism. Actress Amanda Peet and vaccine expert Paul Offit want to encourage parents to investigate the facts about vaccine safety.
Dec 5th, 2008 · Take a trip through reviews of three new films: Cadillac Records, a movie about the rise of R&B label Chess Records starring Beyonce, Nobel Son, a film about a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and his relationship with his dysfunctional family and Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard's adaption of a successful stage play.
Dec 5th, 2008 · Happiness is contagious, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. James Fowler, political scientist at University of California, San Diego, explains how happiness spreads through social networks and how to make the holidays a little brighter.