Society

NIH Budget Petition to White House to Increase the Budget for Fiscal Year 2013
03/25/2012 - 21:05

Biomedical research in American Universities is mainly supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A petition on White House website, We the The People, is being promoted by people interested in increasing the NIH budget for the next fiscal year (2013).  The petition requires 25,000 votes by April 17 to get the notice of the White House.

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Intel Science Fair 2012 in Pittsburgh May 13-18
03/20/2012 - 19:06

The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) 2012 will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 13-18.  More than 1500 outstanding high school students from 65 countries are expected to present their research projects at this event. Intel ISEF is the world's largest international pre-college science competition.

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Relationship between Lead Exposure and Academic Achievement of Children
01/26/2012 - 23:44

As researchers at Cornell University and Drexel University College of Medicine demonstrate in their recent article, a relationship between lead exposure and the academic achievement of children in New York State remains easily discernible.

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Gross Domestic Product Ticking Upward, Happiness Down
12/16/2011 - 22:09

The gross domestic product of the United States — that oft-cited measure of economic health — has been ticking upward for the last two years. But what would you see if you could see a graph of gross domestic happiness? A team of scientists from the University of Vermont have made such a graph — and the trend is down.

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Social media in protests: Study finds ‘recruiters’ and ‘spreaders’
12/16/2011 - 09:57

A study has explored the dynamics behind social network sites in recruiting and spreading  calls for action that contribute to mass mobilisations in riots, revolutions and protests.

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Breathing and heartbeat synchronize in people singing in choir
11/07/2011 - 22:04

One may expect that people singing in a choir would synchronize their breathing, but would they also synchronize their heartbeats? In a study recently published in PLoS ONE, researchers from the Center for Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin have looked at both. Using electrocardiographic and respiratory movement recordings, the authors investigated oscillatory couplings among eleven singers and one conductor engaged in choir singing.

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