- America's greatest strength: the US Ambassador to the United Nations is an Afghan-born Sunni Muslim. Oh, and he's married to a science-fiction author. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zalmay_khalilzad 2 comments reddit.com
- Red Bull Powertrains to use Convergent Science’s Converge software in 2026 F1 power unit design https://www.pmw-magazine.com/news/engine-technology/red-bull-powertrains-to-use-convergent-sciences-converge-software-in-2026-f1-power-unit-design.html 8 comments formula1
- States Unite On Reopening Economies: 'Science — Not Politics — Will Guide' Decisions https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/13/833662246/states-unite-on-reopening-economies-science-not-politics-will-guide-decisions 12 comments politics
- Crow, D., & Ron, J. (2020). Do Global Publics View Human Rights Organizations as Handmaidens of the United States? Political Science Quarterly, vol. 135(1). https://www.psqonline.org/viewcontent.cfm?sk=23f4e9ccd6d50ff9cd16c2db4eb96bd304cce9abac1396c0a69ab8deb9d2ffcf 3 comments geopolitics
- By dramatically changing the food we eat as well as the way it is grown and produced, humans can help stop the devastating impacts of climate change according to the latest report by the United Nations body on climate science. https://time.com/5648082/un-climate-report-less-meat/ 44 comments science
- Conservatives and liberals united only by interest in dinosaurs - Millions of online book co-purchases reveal partisan differences in the consumption of science (nature) https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/03/conservatives-and-liberals-united-only-by-interest-in-dinosaurs-study-shows 12 comments science
- Could someone explain the use of the different units utilized in radiation science? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5hvedq/could_someone_explain_the_use_of_the_different/ 24 comments askscience
- A major publisher of scholarly medical and science articles, BioMed Central, based in the United Kingdom, has retracted 43 papers because of “fabricated” peer reviews amid signs of a broader fake peer review racket affecting many more publications. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/27/fabricated-peer-reviews-prompt-scientific-journal-to-retract-43-papers-systematic-scheme-may-affect-other-journals/?tid=hp_mm&hpid=z3 48 comments worldnews
- How I Felt After 70 Days of Lying in Bed for Science | VICE | United States http://www.vice.com/read/nasa-patient-8179-200 8 comments space
- Darwin is not the controversial figure in the United Kingdom that he continues to be in the U.S. Yet, science has proved Darwin right. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=100379229 3 comments science
- China has surpassed the United States as the largest contributor to high-quality natural-science research papers published in the Nature journal index. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01705-7 32 comments science
- Gilead Sciences has struck a licensing agreement with five generic drugmakers to make antiviral drug remdesivir in 127 countries, not including the United States. The deal is “royalty-free” until WHO says the Covid-19 outbreak is no longer a global health crisis https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/12/remdesivir-coronavirus-treatment-gilead-strikes-deal-to-make-drug-in-127-countries.html 163 comments worldnews
- Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds| A new analysis, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that the oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/climate/ocean-warming-climate-change.html 3 comments worldnews
- Computer science skills across China, India, Russia, and the United States https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/03/12/1814646116 3 comments science
- United States extends fetal tissue contract and revives one experiment | Science https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/united-states-extends-fetal-tissue-contract-and-revives-one-experiment 4 comments science
- Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds| A new analysis, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that the oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/climate/ocean-warming-climate-change.html 186 comments worldnews
- PLOS Science Wednesday: Hi Reddit, we’re Alasdair and Garrett and we drew a new map of the United States based on commuter data instead of traditional borders, creating new ways of interpreting how geography impacts our lives – Ask Us Anything! http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/usp/staff/alasdair_rae 428 comments science
- Science AMA Series: I'm Professor Chris French, Director of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London. I’m back on Halloween to talk about my research on the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences. AMA! http://www.gold.ac.uk/apru/ 823 comments science
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine suggests overhaul of energy policies - The United States needs to put a price on carbon dioxide and other pollutants and overhaul energy policies to help avoid catastrophic climate change and other public health calamities http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060042524 3 comments politics
- The United States Military Academy is poised to have its first woman dean in its 216-year history after President Barack Obama nominated to the post a West Point graduate who currently leads the school's Department of Social Sciences. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-militaryacademy-iduskcn0xr0ex 5 comments politics
- New consumer research has revealed how units of measurement may be deliberately selected to bias our purchasing decisions - Sminton Science Comic http://smintoncomic.blogspot.com/2011/02/unit-effect.html 6 comments science
- Women in Science (Adjusted for IQ and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States) http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science 45 comments reddit.com
- Computer Science Open Rankings - A New Transparent Meta Ranker for Computer Science Departments in the United States https://drafty.cs.brown.edu/csopenrankings/ 10 comments compsci
- A wake-up call for science education: The United States is once again missing from the list of top-10 science and math education countries. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/12/a_wake_up_call_for_science_education/ 8 comments science
- Science education in the United States is broken, says Congressman Bart Gordon. As a result, "China and India will crush the United States unless there are substantial improvements ...." http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/05/poor_science_ed.html 6 comments reddit.com
- Should the United States build physical and cyber Terminators, weapons that do not have a human in the loop? The unequivocal answer from the prestigious Defense Science Board is yes. http://breakingdefense.com/2016/08/pentagon-study-urges-immediate-action-on-thinking-weapons-vcjcs-selva-cautious/ 6 comments technology
- Death rates have declined among children and young adults in the poorest counties in the United States, according to the study published in Science. These children may be more likely to be healthier as they grow older, regardless of the poverty level where they live, the findings suggest. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/puww-mri042016.php 7 comments science
- When Racism Was a Science: “Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office,” a new exhibit at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Asian/Pacific/American Institute, transports visitors to 1924, the height of the eugenics movement in the United States. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/science/haunted-files-the-eugenics-record-office-recreates-a-dark-time-in-a-laboratorys-past.html?_r=1 5 comments history
- Remove Congressmen Paul Broun From The United States House Committee On Science, Space, And Technology https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-congressmen-paul-broun-united-states-house-committee-science-space-and-technology/pq90zsgt 4 comments politics
- Koch Industries, the "kingpin of climate science denial," is one of the top ten air polluters in the United States http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?currentpage=2 31 comments politics
- Political conservatism was associated with heightened susceptibility to believing fake news about COVID-19 in the early stages of the outbreak in the United States, according to new research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://www.psypost.org/2020/08/political-ideology-predicts-susceptibility-to-believing-fake-news-about-the-novel-coronavirus-pandemic-57539 13 comments science
- Trends in pesticide use on soybean, corn and cotton since the introduction of major genetically modified crops in the United States - Coupe - 2015 - Pest Management Science http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps.4082/abstract 8 comments science
- Girls outperformed boys in more countries in a science test given to 15-year-old students in 65 countries — but in the United States, the scores reverse. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/04/science/girls-lead-in-science-exam-but-not-in-the-united-states.html?smid=re-share 8 comments science
- The anti-science strain pervading the right wing in the United States is the last thing the country needs in a time of economic challenge http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7312/full/467133a.html 165 comments politics
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall plan to return to the Moon by 2022 and develop a sustained human presence on the Moon, in order to promote exploration, commerce, science, and United States preeminence in space… http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/bill-introduced-directing-nasa-to-establish-a-moon-base.ars 9 comments science
- The results of a new study show that American computer science graduates are still vastly outperforming peers in China, Russia, and India, the three countries who along with the United States produce more than half of the computer science graduates worldwide. https://www.inverse.com/article/54133-computer-science-grads-competitiveness-by-country 42 comments science
- Nature Index: Since 2012, China's total contribution in high-quality science has risen to become the second largest in the world, surpassed only by the United States. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v528/n7582_supp_ni/full/528s170a.html 134 comments worldnews
- "A former member of Facebook’s Data Science unit, Andrew Ledvina, told The Wall Street Journal that the in-house lab operates with few restrictions. 'Anyone on that team could run a test,' he said. 'They’re always trying to alter people’s behavior.'" http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/manipulators-facebooks-social-engineering-project 29 comments technology
- American public trusts of Science less over time from 1974-2010 (particularly "conservatives"). - "Politicization of Science in the Public Sphere: A Study of Public Trust in the United States, 1974 to 2010" http://www.asanet.org/images/journals/docs/pdf/asr/apr12asrfeature.pdf 2 comments science
- Greta Thunberg has set sail from the UK, bound for UN climate summits in New York & Chile | Teenager, who refuses to travel by air because of its environmental impact, said of skeptics: "There's always going to be people who don't understand or accept the united science, & I will just ignore them" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-49330423 94 comments worldnews