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 [...]
NASA’s Fermi telescope has discovered 12 previously unseen pulsars — the tip of the iceberg, researchers say — and has the potential to unlock new secrets of supernova explosions. The Fermi/LAT collaboration announced the discovery of 12 pulsars on Tuesday that have never been observed before, along with 17 that were previously identified by their [...]
I enjoy writing about astronomy exactly for the reason I once feared it: there’s so much we don’t know. There’s rarely any shame in asking about the nature of a black hole, for example, because scientists are grappling with it too. Usually, if I get confused while writing an astronomy story, it’s because I’ve stumbled [...]
