U.S. has more science smarts - sort of
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People in the U.S. know more about basic science today than they did two decades ago, good news that researchers say is tempered by an unsettling growth in the belief in pseudoscience such as astrology and visits by extraterrestrial aliens.
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US eighth-graders are gaining on their peers across the globe in science and math, but fourth-graders are being passed as their test scores remain stagnant, according to an international review of school performance.
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People with at least some education beyond high school have a lower cancer death risk than those with less education, according to a U.S. study published on Tuesday
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Abandoned children in Romania who were removed from orphanages and put in foster care had far better reasoning, language, and other intellectual skills than those who remained, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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The United States is losing its leadership role in particle physics as its best brains move to sunny Switzerland. But fear not: There's always another giant accelerator on the horizon. By John Borland.
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Abandoned children in Romania who were  removed from orphanages and put in foster care had far better  reasoning, language, and other intellectual skills than those  who remained, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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The move parallels similar actions in Korea and China, and has some American scientists concerned that the United States is losing its lead in biomedical research.
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Yes, we know you don&#39;t like that news, but it&#39;s science - good science from what we can tell. A new four-year international report by 300 scientists from the United States and seven other countries that was
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WASHINGTON -- Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries.
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By Ernst, Jeremy V; Clark, Aaron C  The need for America's students to develop a deeper knowledge of the nature, creation, and potentials of technology and its symbiotic role in human society, as well as develop a broader range of technological skills, is progressively more important.
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WASHINGTON Oct 28, 2004 - Better nutrition has helped Americans grow a little taller. But it&#39;s been too much of a good thing: The nation is also a whole lot fatter.
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Scientist Robert P.H. Chang of Northwestern University had no trouble persuading education officials in Mexico to introduce the burgeoning field of nanotechnology to schools there, but it's been a far tougher sell in the United States.
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The United States is the world leader in nanotechnology -- the newly blossoming science of making incredibly small materials and devices -- but is not paying enough attention to the environmental, health and safety risks posed by nanoscale products, says a report released yesterday by the...
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In a time when the President of the United States can't pronounce the word nuclear, when our public schools do one incredibly stupid thing after another, and our appointed officials can't seem to stay out of hot water for saying something dumb, it's nice to know we in the USA don't have the market on stupidity cornered.
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More than 60 countries were scored on factors ranging from business environment and R&#38;D efforts. How did the U.S. fare?Chart: World's top IT economies
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Sometimes Washington is more important than the laboratory.
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(InfoWorld) - China now spends more on research and development than Japan, but still only invests a little over a third as much as the U.S., according to the OECD. Although China's economy is growing at between 9 percent and 10 percent a year, its R&D spending is growing even faster, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said Monday. OECD member countries need to stimulate innovation in new ways, and make their research processes more efficient if they are to compete, the organization warned. U.S. R&D spending this year will total $338 billion, compared to China's $136 billion and Japan's $129 billion, according to OECD estimates. The 15 original member states of the European Union will spend $233 billion on R&D this year, the OECD said, assuming that the countries' spending continues to grow at the same rates as between 2000 and 2004. The OECD's figures, drawn from its report "The Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2006," show that 926,000 researchers are involved in China's R&D efforts, an increase of 77 percent between 1995 and 2004, while in the U.S. the figure is just over 1.3 million: China has two-thirds the number of researchers for only one-third the spending. Although the OECD compares figures for national R&D spending, a growing proportion of that investment comes from other countries, thanks to multinational companies. More than 16 percent of business-funded R&D in the OECD was performed by foreign affiliates in 2004, the organization said, up from 12 percent in 1993. The share of inward R&D funding exceeded 40 percent in five countries: Australia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, and the U.K. While countries compete with one another to attract this inward R&D investment, they are also competing for researchers, and the political issue of human resources is taking on greater urgency, the OECD said. The U.S. now has 9.3 researchers per 1,000 in the labor force, compared to 10.3 in Japan and only 5.8 in the 25 member states of the European Union. Replacing those researchers, or increasing their numbers, will get harder: Fewer students are graduating in science and technology subjects in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, South Korea, and the U.S., the OECD found, and in the U.S. the number of doctoral students enrolling is also falling. The European Union now produces more doctoral graduates in science and technology than the U.S. -- but it is the U.S. that offers them the most jobs: half of the 46,716 post-doctoral positions open in 2003 went to foreign graduates, the OECD noted. The OECD has 30 members states "sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy." The members include Australia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Turkey, the U.S. and 18 European countries including France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. The OECD Web site offers further details of the report.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.