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The Dublin based Livewire Publications has produced a new collection of essays titled Science & Capital - Radical Essays on Science & Technology, with the intention to; “bring together some of the ...

DuPont (NYSE: DD) has issued the call for entries to The DuPont Challenge 2008 Science Essay Competition. One of the leading science and technology education programs in the United States and Canada, ...

When someone "hurts our feelings," do we feel physical pain? Is altruism the challenge to evolutionary tenets that many have claimed? How will plants adapt to global warming? Young scientists tackle ...

The theme for the 2nd annual Alliance for Science National High School Essay Contest has been announced; the 2008 theme is going to be the extremely interesting and relevant subject of “Climate, ...

An “escape from living a normal, mundane life,” is how one reader called her lab research as a grad student. Another mentioned the “moments of wonder that punctuated the darkness.” Yet another ...

First Opinion, STAT’s platform for opinion and perspective essays, welcomes submissions about the biopharma industry, medical science and health care, and other topics related to the life sciences ...

Dr. Bik is a microbiologist who has worked at Stanford University and for the Dutch National Institute for Health. One evening in January 2014, I sat at my computer at home, sifting through scientific ...

I recently served as a judge for the Imagine Science Film Festival, and Nature (one of the festival’s sponsors) asked if I’d write about the experience. I’m pretty suspicious of the whole idea of ...

This afternoon I received in the post a slim FedEx envelope containing four small vials of DNA. The DNA had been synthesized according to my instructions in under three weeks, at a cost of 39 U.S.