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Apr 22, 2014

Education and Explosions, Alloys and Animation: Q+A With Ainissa Ramirez

Victoria Hutter, assistant director of public affairs at the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), contributed this article as part of partnership between NEA and Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Ainissa Ramirez is a science evangelist, an impassioned champion for science education. She has a Ph.D. in...

May 5, 2014

The Cartoon Thing: Why Are Female Scientists Missing? (Op-Ed)

Sai Pathmanathan is a science education consultant in the United Kingdom. She contributed this article, the second in a two-part series about growing up in a gender-defined science culture, to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. I have given many talks to schools in the UK and across the...

May 23, 2014

White House Science Fair Turns Spotlight on Girls

Young math and science whizzes from around the country will convene in the nation's capital next week for the annual White House Science Fair, hosted by President Barack Obama. This year's fair, which will be held on Tuesday (May 27), will focus specifically on girls and women in STEM (science,...

Jul 3, 2014

Photos: 'Smart' Garden Remodels Itself Based on People's Moods

Futuristic Garden (Image credit: University of Lincoln)Researchers at the University of Lincoln, in the United Kingdom, have designed a high-tech smart garden that can change the way it looks, depending on the reactions of people on Twitter. The experimental garden, part of the STAN (Science Technology Architecture Networks) project, which...

Jul 3, 2014

Journal Addresses Uproar Over Facebook Emotion Study

A scientific journal that recently published a controversial study about how emotions can spread across social networks issued a note today (July 3) to address the uproar caused by the contentious research. The study, published June 17 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was conducted...

Jul 28, 2014

Unleashing the Power of the Bilingual Mind (Op-Ed)

Anna Beres is a graduate student in the School of Psychology at Bangor University. Beres conducted this study under Guillaume Thierry, professor of cognitive neuroscience, and is currently working with Debbie Mills, also a cognitive neuroscientist at the university. Beres first wrote about the work on the blog of the...

Aug 12, 2014

Focus! Distractions Kill Both Time and Quality

Cyrus Foroughi is a doctoral student working with Deborah Boehm-Davis in the Applied Performance Research Lab at George Mason University. This column was provided courtesy of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Foroughi contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Despite knowing that interruptions hamper productivity, most people...

Sep 2, 2014

Too Much Screen Time May Worsen Kids' Ability to Read Emotions

Too much face-to-screen time and not enough face-to-face interaction could degrade kids' ability to read other people's emotions, a new study suggests. A team of researchers from UCLA discovered that a group of sixth graders who didn't use a phone, TV or computer for five days were much better at...

Sep 8, 2014

Toddlers Know More Math Than You Think

Children frequently learn by observing people around them. Without any instruction, for example, many toddlers figure out how to turn on a TV or twist open a door handle. Now, scientists have found that 2- year-olds may also rely on probability to make sense of their world. During a game...

Sep 12, 2014

From Slot Machines to Self-Tracking Devices: An Anthropologist Story

This ScienceLives article was provided to Live Science in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Cultural anthropologist Natasha Schüll bridged the gap between human interaction and machine workings in her research on gambling. Her book Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas, published in 2012, was borne as a...

Nov 21, 2014

Lifesaving Beats: Songs Can Help with CPR Training

CHICAGO — The familiar tune of the Bee Gees song Stayin' Alive has been used for medical training for quite a few years now: It has the right beat — not to mention, the perfect title — for providing CPR's chest compressions at the right pace to revive a patient....

Dec 15, 2014

Primary Care Doctors Shouldn't Be Training in Hospitals (Op-Ed)

Dr. Bruce Koeppen is founding dean of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. Koeppen contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. If health care's goal is to keep patients out of the hospital, why are primary care physicians training in hospitals?...

Mar 13, 2015

Chameleon-like Material Changes Color On Demand

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley announced today that they have developed an ultra-thin material that can change color on demand by bouncing back light on the nanoscale level. Well, the on-demand element is a little more nuanced. The “chameleon skin” material actually changes color when flexed, or...

Apr 10, 2015

iPads in the Classroom, But Do They Help Kindergartners?

When it comes to technology in the classroom, having kindergartners share iPads may be better for learning than simply giving each child an iPad, a new study suggests. The study involved 350 students from three schools in a Midwestern school district where iPads were being phased into classrooms. This created...

Jun 11, 2015

Women's Progress in Science and Engineering Since 1973 (Infographic)

The number of U.S.-trained women with science and engineering doctorates who are employed in academia almost doubled in 15 years, rising from about 60,000 in 1997 to over 105,000 in 2010. ...