School bullies eating your lunch? Science may have found a solution. A team of researchers from the US and London has been testing a school-wide intervention that focuses on bystanders — including teachers — as much as the bullies or victims. And the method is showing early promise. The study was released this evening by the Journal [...]
“Researchers Try to Cure Racism” caught my attention after it was released by Wired Science and generated controversy on the Digg network, within days of President Obama’s inauguration. Brown University’s Michael Tarr led the study, which invited participants to view pictures of similar-looking black faces and record their immediate, spoken responses. The responses were characterized [...]
I love to write. And I love science. But so far, my attempt to combine these things in a style fitting for the modern age — by maintaining a blog — has been spotty. So I hereby challenge myself: 100 posts about science in 100 days, promoted as much as possible through other modern [...]
Bats are in the news twice this week for two very different reasons: more has been revealed about their endearing social graces, and more is now understood about their unique vulnerability to windmills. University of Maryland researchers announce in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that big brown bats [...]
Welcome to the Behind the Science blog, which is meant to peer behind the scenes of some of the science stories I write for various media outlets, most often National Geographic News. Let there be no implication that these media outlets have endorsed the content of these entries; in most cases, they haven’t. The point [...]
