Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Program evaluation dates almost as far back as government programs. But the art and science of program evaluation is always changing. The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, passed back in 2018, aims to bring data and […]
NutriLeads was founded in 2012 using knowledge and patents acquired from Unilever, explained Dr Ruud Albers, the company’s CSO. Initial analyses of more than 450 candidate ingredients for immune support and reduction of upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) triggered interest in ginseng, but further commercial development of this source was hindered by questions about regulatory […]
FARGO, N.D. — A proposed science museum in the Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota area has received a $1 million donation from a local business leader. Officials with the Fargo-Moorhead Science Museum say the gift from John Ballantyne will help with facility planning and feasibility studies for the facility in the community of about 250,000 people. […]
Scientists have identified the first human-bred hybrid animals by using DNA sequencing in a recent study. The research, published in Science Advances, shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age. It is based on samples from the early Neolithic to the Iron Age that encompasses the presumed transition […]
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Maryland Science Center’s newest 12,000-square-foot exhibit provides 35 hands-on activities and sensory experiences presenting educational information about how the human body reacts and adapts. You-The Inside Story provides visitors with tests and challenges showing how their body calibrates to their environment, while also providing inquisitive questions for guests to reflect on, […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Those who are stubbornly skeptical of science and those who eagerly embrace science as infallible both have a dangerous misunderstanding of the nature of science, a U.S. Jesuit astronomer said. These two tendencies reflect “the temptation to turn science or faith into a fortress against our basic and human fear of […]
Many of us may feel like we’re living in a bubble, but Earth actually is residing in one. Published today in Nature, researchers from the Center for Astrophysics and the Space Telescope Science Institute have created a 3D map that reconstructs the evolutionary history of the “Local Bubble,” a 1,000-light-year-wide cavity of cold gas and […]
01/11/22 HAYS, Kan. – Approximately 200 middle and high school students will visit Fort Hays State University Saturday to participate in an annual regional Science Olympiad. The top three finishers in the FHSU regional event will receive medals, with those recording qualifying scores advancing to April’s state competition in Wichita. The Saturday date at FHSU […]
Indigenous communities hold a wealth of knowledge that can advance science.Credit: Galaxiid/Alamy Lisa Loseto is a research scientist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, a federal government department whose regional offices include one in Winnipeg, where she is based. Some of Northern Canada’s Indigenous people have shaped her research into how beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) interact […]
by Regina Avalos, January 9, 2022 Spycraft is coming to Science Channel this week. The new espionage series reveals more about the technology spies use in their work. Science Channel revealed more about Spycraft in a press release. “In the mysterious world of espionage, the tools and technologies developed for spies are just as critical […]