Limiting light pollution is ongoing challenge
Preserving starlit nights in the face of ever-growing light use is a balancing act that proponents of dark skies approach with education, better light fixtures, and legislation.
Creationist Wave Hits Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
With science museums finding an increasingly important source of revenue in their IMAX theaters, some museums are yielding to antievolution sentiment and not showing controversial films.
Scientists Boycott Kansas Antievolution Hearings
While the US science community has been concerned about antievolution pressure on some science museums
around the country, there was even greater concern recently about a potential reprise in Kansas
of the Scopes "monkey trial" of 80 years ago.
Infrared Illuminates Ancient Scrolls
And the helmets are shaking their purple-dyed crests, and for the wearers of breast-plates the weavers are striking up the wise shuttle's songs, that wakes up those who are asleep.
Private Donations Fund Theory Institute in Germany
In a quest to become internationally competitive in the theoretical sciences, the fledgling Frankfurt
Institute for Advanced Studies in Frankfurt, Germany, is breaking with European traditions in
the structural, teaching, and funding schemes it adopts.
Mixed Results for Women, Minorities at DOE Labs
Women and minorities working at six US Department of Energy laboratories are not treated significantly
differently from men and white people in terms of promotions and merit pay increases, but "statistically
significant" differences in salaries exist between women and men at five of the six labs, according
to a new Government Accounting Office (GAO) study.
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