7/2/2009 - HealthDay.com
For the first time, researchers have identified a single "master" stem cell in humans that is capable of differentiating into all three major cell types that make up the human heart.
7/2/2009 - Education Week
The two national organizations coordinating a push for common academic standards have named the 29 people who are deciding what math and language arts skills students will need to know and when, along with the 35 people who will formally critique the group's work.
7/2/2009 - ScienceNOW Daily News
Heavyweight and lightweight black holes abound in the universe, but nobody has detected a middleweight—and some scientists argue they don't exist. Now, astronomers say they have found the first conclusive evidence for one of these elusive objects at the fringe of a distant galaxy.
7/2/2009 - Voice of America News
Nearly 300 movers and shakers from the world's corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors packed a United Nations meeting hall recently for the Incentive2Innovate Conference, which had been convened to explore cutting-edge ways to spur inventiveness through competition for prize money and other rewards.
7/2/2009 - BBC News
The world's largest cat, the Amur tiger, is down to an effective wild population of fewer than 35 individuals, new research has found. Although up to 500 of the big cats actually survive in the wild, the effective population is a measure of their genetic diversity.
7/2/2009 - The Wall Street Journal
Cost-effective medical practices deployed in developing nations are delivering good results, prompting many in the U.S. to ask whether the same solutions can be done here.
7/2/2009 - USA Today
The 10th International Submarine Races drew 21 college and even a few high school teams from around the world to see whose 10- to 16-foot-long crafts would impress the judges and win for innovation, speed, cost-effectiveness, and best use of composite materials.
7/1/2009 - National Geographic News
The Mississippi River Delta is drowning, according to new research that predicts the surrounding coastline will be inevitably reshaped in coming decades.
7/1/2009 - Reuters
The first H1N1 infection found to be resistant to the antiviral drug Tamiflu represents an isolated case with no current implications for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
7/1/2009 - MSNBC
A new Myanmar fossil primate, Ganlea megacanina, suggests the common ancestor of humans, monkeys, and apes evolved from large-toothed primates in Asia and not Africa, according to new research.
7/1/2009 - Education Week
A new study suggests that "value-added" methods for determining the effectiveness of classroom teachers may be misleading. Value-added assessments measure the effectiveness of schools and teachers by measuring the gains that their students make on standardized tests over the course of a school year.
7/1/2009 - Chronicle of Higher Education
Janet Davison Rowley has won this year's Gruber Prize in genetics for research that has "revolutionized how cancer is understood and treated," the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, which presents the prize, announced today.
7/1/2009 - Inside Higher Ed
Most states don't have systems in place to measure college students' learning outcomes, and rare is the state that actually uses accountability data to drive policy decisions, a new report says.
7/1/2009 - ScienceDaily
Millions of would-be galaxies failed to develop after being exposed to intense heat from the first stars and black holes formed in the early Universe, according to new research.
6/30/2009 - BBC News
The most complete terrain map of the Earth's surface has been published. The data, comprising 1.3 million images, come from a collaboration between the US space agency Nasa and the Japanese trade ministry; it covers 99% of the Earth's surface and will be free to download and use.
6/30/2009 - The Boston Globe
Don't look to the Supreme Court to set school rules, only to clarify them when officials have abdicated that responsibility, Chief Justice John Roberts said Saturday.
6/30/2009 - ScienceNOW Daily News
After almost 17 years in orbit, the scientific mission of the Ulysses spacecraft will end today. The satellite, originally designed for a 5-year study of the solar wind and interstellar dust from a unique orbit over the Sun's poles, has suffered a fatal defect in its attitude-control system.
6/30/2009 - National Science Foundation
People are more likely to enroll in conservation programs if their neighbors do—a tendency that should be exploited when it comes to protecting the environment, according to results of a new study.
6/29/2009 - MSNBC
Two hundred years after Charles Darwin's birth, academics and amateur historians call attention to the contributions made by another evolutionist, Alfred Russel Wallace.
6/29/2009 - Yosef Getachew
SPEAK Act Legislation Introduced; Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Bill Passed;
New STEM Legislation Introduced
6/29/2009 - Inside Higher Ed
Community colleges and high schools would receive federal funds to create free, online courses in a program that is in the final stages of being drafted by the Obama administration. The program is part of a series of efforts to help community colleges reach more students and to link basic skills education to job training.
6/29/2009 - The New York Times (requires free registration)
The first scientific tests on what are believed to be the remains of the Apostle Paul, the Roman Catholic saint, "seem to conclude" that they belong to him, Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday. Benedict said scientists had conducted carbon dating tests on bone fragments found inside the sarcophagus and confirmed that they date from the first or second century.
6/29/2009 - EducationNews.org
Test scores in reading and math alone cannot describe a school's contributions to the full range of student outcomes. Instead, a new accountability system that combines testing with qualitative evaluation is needed to replace the discredited No Child Left Behind Act.
6/29/2009 - eSchool News
An ambitious new research project aims to revolutionize education by showing that well-implemented technology initiatives can save states money after an initial investment.
6/29/2009 - The Wall Street Journal
Fibromuscular dysplasia is a disease largely unknown to the public and even a majority of doctors. Yet evidence suggests that the disease isn't rare at all it: It simply isn't looked for, so it's seldom diagnosed.