The U.S. Department of Energy´s goals for meeting America´s energy challenges involve energy security; reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions; and promoting changes in energy supply, transmission, storage, and use. And even within those challenges lies another: energy change can be slow. Continue reading “America’s Energy Challenges with Dr. Steve Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy”
In 1998 a British gastroenterologist published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism. The media seized the story and, in the process, helped launch one of the fastest-spreading health scares ever—linking childhood vaccines and autism. Continue reading “Panic Virus”
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and The Chicago Council on Science and Technology will host a panel discussion on the crisis in Japan. The world’s eyes are on Japan as it struggles to recover from the largest recorded earthquake in its history. Continue reading “Japan’s State of Nuclear Emergency”
Lately, it seems not a month goes by without the news of another groundbreaking or life extending drug being released to market. From blood pressure to osteoporosis and everything in between, medicines are being approved and stocked at your local pharmacy. But why does it take so long to get that new drug to the corner Walgreens? Continue reading “Drug Discovery: Ingenuity or Serendipity?”
The April 20th BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo well blowout, explosion, fire and oil spill was the most significant economic, environmental and societal disaster of 2010, what were the causes? Continue reading “BP Oil Spill: The Cause & Prevention”
Over the past 15 years, the world has witnessed a technology boom that has brought the Internet into our houses and airwaves, Facebook to our daily routine and more computing power in the conventional toaster oven than what was required to get a man onto the moon. Continue reading “Cybr Scrty”
