 Global warming has the potential to dramatically expand the oceans’ so-called dead zones, oxygen-poor areas that fish avoid and where less mobile organisms like clams and crabs can’t survive. Most dead zones are located where rivers empty into the ocean, dumping agricultural fertilizers and other pollutants. A new study by a team of Danish researchers, released [...]
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 [...]