News tagged with sciences survey

Study: Conservatives' trust in science has fallen dramatically since mid-1970s

While trust in science remained stable among people who self-identified as moderates and liberals in the United States between 1974 and 2010, trust in science fell among self-identified conservatives by more than 25 percent ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 77

Green schools and students' science scores are related

A nationwide survey shows a positive correlation between Green School practices and student achievement in science. The study was conducted by the University of Colorado Denver's Department of Geography and Environmental ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Launch of new system for observing the Southern Ocean

An international committee of experts will meet this month to begin the implementation of a new observing system for the study of the Southern Ocean.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers create 3-D laser maps that show how earthquake changes landscape

Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science, a team ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Americans' knowledge of polar regions up, but not their concern

Americans' knowledge of facts about the polar regions of the globe has increased since 2006, but this increase in knowledge has not translated into more concern about changing polar environments, according to new research ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

German scientists ready for the hunt on dark energy

The German and Russian partners of the new eROSITA X-ray space observatory have now agreed on how to split the data from the first four years of an all sky survey. This decision was announced today at the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Six years and 12,000 holes: Cyprus mapped

It was a marathon project that took six years and the collection and analysis of some 12,000 soil samples, but an international team of geologists has managed to create the Geochemical Atlas of Cyprus.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many top US scientists wish they had more children

Nearly half of all women scientists and one-quarter of male scientists at the nation's top research universities said their career has kept them from having as many children as they had wanted, according to a new study by ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Comet Hartley 2 leaves a bumpy trail

New findings from NEOWISE, the asteroid- and comet-hunting portion of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, show that comet Hartley 2 leaves a pebbly trail as it laps the sun, dotted with grains ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study highlights flaw in common approach of public opinion surveys about science

A new study from North Carolina State University highlights a major flaw in attempting to use a single survey question to assess public opinion on science issues. Researchers found that people who say that risks posed by ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

New state surveys affirm Americans' support for government action on climate change

Large majorities of the residents of Florida, Maine and Massachusetts believe the Earth has been getting warmer gradually over the last 100 years (81 percent, 78 percent and 84 percent, respectively), and ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Computers intersect with sociology to sift through 'all our ideas'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sociologist Matthew Salganik has teamed up with Princeton computer scientists to develop a new way for organizations to solicit ideas from large groups of people and simultaneously have those ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children living in areas where homicides committed have lower reading, verbal test scores

Children living in areas where homicides are committed have lower reading and verbal test scores, a study by New York University Sociology Professor Patrick Sharkey shows. The research, which appears in the latest issue of ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Large majority of Americans still believe in global warming, Stanford poll finds

Three out of four Americans believe that the Earth has been gradually warming as the result of human activity and want the government to institute regulations to stop it, according to a new survey by researchers at the Woods ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (21) | comments 90

WISE Snug in Its Nose Cone; Launch Set for Dec. 9

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has been wrapped in the outer nose cone, or "fairing," that will protect it during its scheduled Dec. 9 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0