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Aug 15, 2016

Book Excerpt: 'But What If We're Wrong?' (US 2016)

In his new book, Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we...

Aug 15, 2016

What If We're Wrong? History Suggests Everything Will Be Disproved

Hindsight is 20/20, right? That's the premise of a new book that poses the question: What if we were wrong? Chuck Klosterman's But What If We're Wrong? (Blue Rider Press, 2016) deals with the fact that the great march of history shows us that, well … we're always wrong. Aristotle...

Aug 25, 2016

Sexual Assault on Campus: Why College Freshmen Face Increased Risk

All across the U.S., college freshmen are gearing up for new classes, friends and freedoms, but there's also a darker side of these changes: At many colleges, first-year students are at an increased risk of sexual assault compared with sophomores, juniors and seniors, experts told Live Science. This period of...

Aug 27, 2016

Will You Make More Money If You Attend a Top-Tier School?

SEATTLE — College tuitions are becoming prohibitively expensive for many people, with Harvard University now costing almost $61,000 a year for tuition, room, board and fees. Given the high price tag, is it worth it to graduate from a highly selective school versus a less expensive, lower-tier one? The answer...

Sep 2, 2016

Nix Homework to Help Students? What the Science Says

A Texas teacher's note to parents about her newly implemented no formal homework policy in her second-grade class went viral last week, opening up the floodgates for parents, teachers and school administrators to weigh in on this controversial topic. In the note, teacher Brandy Young told parents that her students'...

Sep 12, 2016

Homeschooling Is on the Rise: Here's Why

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. As children head back to school, an increasing number of their homeschooled peers will be starting their academic year as well. Homeschooling in the United States is growing at...

Nov 9, 2016

Book Excerpt: 'Blueprint for a Battlestar' (US 2016)

In Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations Behind Sci-Fi's Greatest Inventions, NASA insider Rod Pyle explores remarkable and memorable technologies from the world of science fiction. Each concept is explained and dissected to reveal the real science behind it. Some are temptingly within our reach — such as cyborgs...

Dec 9, 2016

Having Family for Dinner: 'Cannibalism' Author Dishes

When you think of cannibals, you may picture the headline-grabbing psychopaths who, every so often, commit horrific crimes. But elsewhere in the animal kingdom, cannibalism might involve a self-sacrificing mother or a hungry fetus snacking down on its siblings. Now, Bill Schutt's Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Algonquin Books, 2017)...

Feb 27, 2017

Live Science Talks 'Cannibalism' with Author Bill Schutt

Join Live Science as we take a seat at the table with Bill Schutt, author of Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Algonquin Books, 2018). While cannibalism in animals — including people — has been recognized for centuries, it wasn't always well-studied, and was long-thought to be a type of behavior...

Mar 14, 2017

Lifelike Models with 'Working Organs' Help Doctors Hone Surgical Skills

New, lifelike models of newborns that are as squishy as real babies and even include mimics of working organs could help surgeons and nurses train to perform life-saving procedures, researchers say. The baby mimics were created using 3D printing and were designed to better replicate the anatomical complexity and feel...

Apr 20, 2017

The Myth of the College Dropout: Why Zuckerberg's Success Is an Anomaly

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was asked to give this year's commencement address at Harvard, he asked for advice from Bill Gates. Zuckerberg said, They know we didn't actually...

May 2, 2017

Why Health Experts Are Concerned Over New School Lunch Rules

School lunch programs in the U.S. will no longer be required to meet all of the nutrition standards set in the Obama era, the Trump administration announced this week. The news means that school lunches won't necessarily see the cuts in sodium and boosts in whole grains that were outlined...

May 10, 2017

In Photos: Thousands of Asylum Patients' Bodies Buried Under University of Mississippi Campus

Where the bodies are buried (Image credit: The University of Mississippi Medical Center)Built in 1855, the Mississippi State Insane Hospital housed an estimated 35,000 patients over a span of 80 years, until it was shuttered in 1935. Experts suspect that as many as 7,000 of the asylum's former patients are...

Nov 24, 2017

Cyber Monday Deals on Science Books

If you're shopping for that someone who loves to learn and is just curious about the world, how about a book? Here's a look at some of the best book deals on Amazon this Cyber Monday that are sure to dazzle the science lover in your life. The Sixth Extinction:...

Dec 4, 2017

It Bleeds. It Breathes. It's a Lifelike Artificial Human Corpse!

Medical schools have historically used human cadavers to train students in anatomy and medical procedures, a tradition that dates back hundreds of years. However, a unique type of medical model provides a remarkably human alternative to working with preserved corpses. SynDaver synthetic humans are anatomically accurate medical models fabricated by...