THE SOCIAL GENOME: The New Science of Nature and Nurture, by Dalton Conley THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE HUMAN EMPIRE: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction, by Henry Gee In 2012, NPR reported the startling news that a fancy preschool on Manhattan’s Upper West Side would require its little applicants to…

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) – Science Central is celebrating the start of spring with a special event on Saturday. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the organization will be hosting “It’s Spring: Let’s Talk Plants”, bringing a day of nature-themed activities to the Summit City. Organization leaders say the event will feature presentations, demonstrations, and…

Joss and I spent most of Spring Break in Denver. This included a trip to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which I’d never been to before. It was huge! We spent several hours there and only saw maybe a third of everything there was to see. But here’s some information about it, if…

Jacopo Ligozzi, “A Groundhog or Marmot with a Branch of Plums”. (1605), brush with brown and black wash, point of the brush with black and brown ink and white gouache, and watercolor, over traces of graphite on burnished paper, sheet: 13 x 16 5/8 inches. All images courtesy of The National Gallery of Art, Washington,…

The United States and Europe have long been centres of biomedical innovation, accounting for ~90% of all new molecular entities (NMEs) approved between 1990–2014 (Drug Discov. Today 20, 500–504; 2015) and home to most of the top 25 biopharma companies globally. Previous studies have evaluated emerging centres of life science innovation, in particular China and…

We propose a diversity-aware population modeling framework using Bayesian multilevel regression and post-stratification to quantify sociodemographic disparities in cognitive development. Our approach improved subgroup estimates, guiding targeted public health strategies and addressing biases in traditional models to support more equitable decision-making. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options Access…

Animals do not always need to be used in preclinical studies.Credit: Evgenyi Eg / Getty While Catharine Krebs was working in a human-genetics laboratory during her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles, there was a line that she got used to seeing at the end of papers: “These findings will need to be…

A growing number of researchers in Australia, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada who receive US funding have been asked to declare their institution’s links to China and whether their projects comply with US government ideology. Associations representing universities in these regions say this threatens academic freedom and undermines scientific advancement. Did you…

Abstract Students who are the first in their family to go to college represent an essential pool of STEM talent, yet they are often underrepresented in STEM fields. In this study, we examined how faculty research mentors’ beliefs about whether brilliance is required for success (brilliance beliefs) shape students’ beliefs about who is allowed to…