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Mark Saul working to solve U.S.'s math problem
January 27, 2012AAAS member Mark Saul teaches exceptional pre-college math students on the lower east side of Manhattan. He encourages and prods them along, telling them, “Don’t get mad. Get even.” -
Analysis: S&T largely a footnote in Obama’s State of the Union
January 25, 2012Our analysis of President Obama's State of the Union Address for 2012. While science and technology were largely absent, the president did stress the need for education and research as ways to stimulate job growth. -
New therapy for Hepatitis C
January 25, 2012It is difficult to develop antiviral drugs for the Hepatitis C virus because it mutates so quickly. A new treatment attempts to make cells harder to infect instead of altering the virus itself, providing new ideas for battling other viruses. -
The dark side of automation: Machine learning
January 24, 2012We are starting to build machines that can learn and adapt to their environments. While this offers many possibilities that are exciting and beneficial, it also has some severe drawbacks. -
The invention of platelets
January 25, 2012Platelets serve the special role of assisting clotting, without them we would easily die from nosebleeds, biting our tongues and even paper cuts. But only mammals have these unique cells, begging the question how and why we evolved platelets.