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Jan 14, 2014

Thanks Academia, Soon I Will Join a Generation of Jobless PhDs (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. My friend leaned forward over the table where we were having dinner. It was a loud, busy restaurant, but she lowered her voice conspiratorially and her eyes took on a...

Feb 11, 2014

The Benefits of Digging in the Dirt (Op-Ed)

Laura Wright Treadway is a regular contributor to OnEarth magazine, published by the Natural Resources Defense Council. This article was originally published by OnEarth magazine. Treadway contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. In his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods, which introduced the world...

Feb 17, 2014

Regret This Year Could Spur Romance Next Year (Op-Ed)

Amy Summerville is an assistant professor of social psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. This article was originally published on the blog of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Summerville contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. For some, Valentine's Day was less a...

Feb 18, 2014

Publishers of 'Science' to Launch New Open-Access Journal

The nonprofit organization that publishes the scientific journal Science said they will be launching a new, broad-based online open-access journal, called Science Advances. The new journal, which will be published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is slated to go live in 2015 with studies covering several...

Feb 18, 2014

Common Core Standards Explained

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a coordinated effort to prepare every child in the U.S. public school system for college or the workforce by ensuring that they reach certain expectations in English language arts and mathematics and can apply the attained skills to the real world. The standards...

Apr 22, 2014

Education and Explosions, Alloys and Animation: Q+A With Ainissa Ramirez

Victoria Hutter, assistant director of public affairs at the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), contributed this article as part of partnership between NEA and Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Ainissa Ramirez is a science evangelist, an impassioned champion for science education. She has a Ph.D. in...

May 5, 2014

The Cartoon Thing: Why Are Female Scientists Missing? (Op-Ed)

Sai Pathmanathan is a science education consultant in the United Kingdom. She contributed this article, the second in a two-part series about growing up in a gender-defined science culture, to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. I have given many talks to schools in the UK and across the...

May 23, 2014

White House Science Fair Turns Spotlight on Girls

Young math and science whizzes from around the country will convene in the nation's capital next week for the annual White House Science Fair, hosted by President Barack Obama. This year's fair, which will be held on Tuesday (May 27), will focus specifically on girls and women in STEM (science,...

Jul 3, 2014

Photos: 'Smart' Garden Remodels Itself Based on People's Moods

Futuristic Garden (Image credit: University of Lincoln)Researchers at the University of Lincoln, in the United Kingdom, have designed a high-tech smart garden that can change the way it looks, depending on the reactions of people on Twitter. The experimental garden, part of the STAN (Science Technology Architecture Networks) project, which...

Jul 3, 2014

Journal Addresses Uproar Over Facebook Emotion Study

A scientific journal that recently published a controversial study about how emotions can spread across social networks issued a note today (July 3) to address the uproar caused by the contentious research. The study, published June 17 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was conducted...

Jul 28, 2014

Unleashing the Power of the Bilingual Mind (Op-Ed)

Anna Beres is a graduate student in the School of Psychology at Bangor University. Beres conducted this study under Guillaume Thierry, professor of cognitive neuroscience, and is currently working with Debbie Mills, also a cognitive neuroscientist at the university. Beres first wrote about the work on the blog of the...

Aug 12, 2014

Focus! Distractions Kill Both Time and Quality

Cyrus Foroughi is a doctoral student working with Deborah Boehm-Davis in the Applied Performance Research Lab at George Mason University. This column was provided courtesy of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Foroughi contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Despite knowing that interruptions hamper productivity, most people...

Sep 2, 2014

Too Much Screen Time May Worsen Kids' Ability to Read Emotions

Too much face-to-screen time and not enough face-to-face interaction could degrade kids' ability to read other people's emotions, a new study suggests. A team of researchers from UCLA discovered that a group of sixth graders who didn't use a phone, TV or computer for five days were much better at...

Sep 8, 2014

Toddlers Know More Math Than You Think

Children frequently learn by observing people around them. Without any instruction, for example, many toddlers figure out how to turn on a TV or twist open a door handle. Now, scientists have found that 2- year-olds may also rely on probability to make sense of their world. During a game...

Sep 12, 2014

From Slot Machines to Self-Tracking Devices: An Anthropologist Story

This ScienceLives article was provided to Live Science in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Cultural anthropologist Natasha Schüll bridged the gap between human interaction and machine workings in her research on gambling. Her book Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas, published in 2012, was borne as a...