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Apr 13, 2012 09:42 AM EDT

Migrant Women Adapt in Economic Crises

With the global recession and the food price spike of 2008, one would expect migrants to be particularly affected, but a recent University of Illinois study revealed migrants in at least one Central Illinois county to be surprisingly resilient in their ability to control their environment through wo...

Apr 12, 2012 07:06 AM EDT

Breakthrough in Nanostructure Research Honoured with ICTP Award

A Brazilian physicist's discovery that for the first time allows researchers to identify single, nano-scale structures called "nanotubes" has been recognized with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in physics. Created in 1982 by the ICTP Scient...

Apr 12, 2012 06:05 AM EDT

Numbers Game: America's Struggle to Make Math Fun

Pity poor math. In the American drive to boost science and math education, it's science that has all the kid-friendly sizzle: Robots and roller coasters, foaming chemical reactions, marshmallow air cannons.

Apr 11, 2012 04:35 PM EDT

Buy coal? New Analysis Shows Purchasing Fossil Fuel Deposits Best Way to Light Climate Change

Environmental policy has historically been driven by a demand-side mindset - attempting to limit consumption of precious fossil fuels through pollution permits, taxation, and multi-national climate change treaties. However, new research from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern Universit...

Apr 11, 2012 01:15 PM EDT

Could 'Advanced' Dinosaurs Rule Other Planets?

New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs - monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans - may be the life forms that evolved on other planets in the universe. "We would be better off not meeting them," concludes the study,...

Apr 10, 2012 02:41 PM EDT

Analytical Standards Needed for 'Reading' Pliocene Bones

Researchers studying human origins should develop standards for determining whether markings on fossil bones were made by stone tools or by biting animals, Indiana University faculty member Jackson Njau writes in an article this week in the journal Science.

Apr 10, 2012 10:40 AM EDT

Eggs of Enigmatic Dinosaur in Patagonia Discovered

An Argentine-Swedish research team has reported a 70 million years old pocket of fossilized bones and unique eggs of an enigmatic birdlike dinosaur in Patagonia. The study is published in the early on line edition of the journal Cretaceous Research.

Apr 09, 2012 05:44 PM EDT

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, died on Sunday at the age of 83

Jack Tramiel, a huge figure in computer history and founder of Commodore, died on Sunday at the age of 83, according to Forbes. Tramiel was both a visionary and controversial figure as the founder of Commodore International and former chief executive of Atari Corp. He was a Holocaust survivor and...

Apr 09, 2012 01:23 PM EDT

Northwestern Scientists Are Lauded for Nanolithography and Molecular Electronics

The discoveries of Northwestern University's Chad A. Mirkin and Mark A. Ratner, both world-renowned pioneers in nanoscience, are featured in a special issue of National Geographic titled "100 Scientific Discoveries That Changed the World."

Apr 09, 2012 11:49 AM EDT

Barbara Romanowicz Wins Top Honor in Seismology

Through the course of her career, Barbara Romanowicz has studied the Earth from its surface to its center, establishing herself as one of the most influential seismologists of her time. For her outstanding contributions in seismology and earthquake engineering, the Seismological Society of America (...

Apr 07, 2012 08:16 AM EDT

Scientists Find Evidence that Human Ancestors Used fire One Million Years Ago

An international team led by the University of Toronto and Hebrew University has identified the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors. Microscopic traces of wood ash, alongside animal bones and stone tools, were found in a layer dated to one million years ago at the Wonderwer...

Apr 06, 2012 11:59 AM EDT

Study Reveals Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on the Racial Gap in life Expectancy

Differences in factors such as income, education and marital status could contribute overwhelmingly to the gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the United States, according to one of the first studies to put a number on how much of the divide can be attributed to disparities in socioe...