For Yet Better Science

Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the  New York Times  bestselling author of  Chasing the Scream  and  Lost Connections  comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how to get our attention back.

Amazon yesterday announced its picks for  2022 Best Books of the Year So Far , including its top book within the general-interest science category, “Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again”.

The first MIT  Better Science  Ideathon brought together teams of people involved in scientific research - including students, researchers, policy  makers, publishers, and funders - to explore how the process of science can be improved. There will be a focus on how open science can accelerate scientific progress through fostering collaboration and reproducibility and by reducing the barriers to learning

Renowned stress researcher Elissa Epel explains how stress affects our bodies at the cellular level and how to manage it  better .

Owing to the current digital era and easy availability of information on ‘Whatsapp And Instagram University’, people are easily misguided by the myths and unverified information shared to them and that is where good science comes into play. After having a thorough reading of the blog, the readers will attain a profound understanding of what Good Science exactly is and how it is different from Bad Science.

An examination of a decade and a half of political controversy, ethical debate, and scientific progress in stem cell research.

Scientists are all human, with the typical faults and foibles that non-scientists have. Sociology, politics, psychology, and similar aspects of human nature all have a profound influence on how science is conducted.

Over 1,200 free science  projects  for K-12. Browse by subject, grade level, or try our Topic Selection Wizard to find your winning  science project .

When science is viewed in isolation from the past and politics, it’s easier for those with bad intentions to revive dangerous and discredited ideas.

Racism and sexism are obstacles to making the scientific enterprise worthy of its public funding

Since 2018, the working group “critical discourse on excellence” – consisting of members of intermediary and professorial staff originally at the  University of Bern  but now also at other Swiss HEIs – has been discussing the scientific practices we consider appropriate for achieving “academic excellence”.

This essay explores the variegated roles played by racial, eugenic, and Social Darwinist discourse in China over roughly the last century. Using Japan as a parallel for comparison, it analyzes the introduction of the term “eugenics” into Japanese and Chinese. It then locates the deployment of eugenics and Social Darwinism as counterimperial discourse in East Asia. It offers a brief history of eugenics thinking in China across the twentieth century, focusing on the Chinese eugenicist Pan Guangdan, who used race as a category of analysis yet without any sense of hierarchy. He was critically aware of the scientific basis of eugenics and helped craft the study of eugenics in China, from biology to sociology, from economics to ethnology.

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"uBiome is the leader in microbial genomics. We develop microbiome products for both consumers as well as for patients and clinicians.  We have developed two clinical products, SmartGut for gastrointestinal conditions, and SmartJane, which combines vaginal microbiome analysis with STI and HPV genotyping. These clinical products are clinician-prescribed and are reimbursable by most health insurance companies." Elisabeth Bik

Scientific progress has yielded technological innovations that have improved the lives of billions of people. But often, those people feel detached from how scientific research is done. EU-funded researchers aim to close the gap by involving citizens more directly in scientific research.