Click Here to Read: New CDC Report Finds 1 in 68 Children Have Autism Spectrum Disorders, Up 30% From 2012 by Emily Shire on the Daily Beast website on March 27, 2014.
Category: Science News
Seeking Autism’s Biochemical Roots
Ripples from the Big Bang
Climate change is putting world at risk of irreversible changes, scientists warn.
Click Here to Read: Climate change is putting world at risk of irreversible changes, scientists warn. AAAS makes rare policy intervention urging US to act swiftly to reduce carbon emissions and lower risks of climate catastrophe by Suzanne Goldenberg in The Guardian website on March 18, 2014.
The seven summers with the lowest minimum sea ice extents have all occurred in the last seven years. Photograph: NASA/Reuters
Space Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun
Click Here to Read: Space Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun By Dennis Overbye in The New York Times on March 17, 2014.
Alan Guth was one of the first physicists to hypothesize the existence of inflation, which explains how the universe expanded so uniformly and so quickly in the instant after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. Credit Rick Friedman for The New York Times.
The Power of Conscious Intention Proven At Last?
Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science
Click Here to View: Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science By William J. Broadmarch in The New York Times on March 15, 2014.
As government financing of basic science research has plunged, private donors have filled the void, raising questions about the future of research for the public good.
