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15 April 2013 | ScienceNOW

Could Wood Feed the World?

by Charles Q. Choi

Researchers develop way to turn inedible plants into food

18 February 2013 | ScienceNOW

Coal Plants Are Victims of Their Own Economics

by Dan Ferber

Industry's decline comes from within, not from government regulations, argues new analysis

15 October 2012 | ScienceNOW

Economics Nobel Honors Perfect Match

by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

Duo wins award for work on helping people and companies find the best fits for everything from students to kidneys

19 September 2012 | ScienceNOW

Mulling Over a Decision Makes People More Selfish, Study Suggests

by Helen Fields

People who deliberate share less than those who react quickly, experiment finds

17 July 2012 | ScienceNOW

Punishing Cheaters: Are We the Dark Knight—Or Just Dark?

by Emily Underwood

Sense of injustice, rather than mere revenge, motivates our desire to crack down on crime

28 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

Is Acid Rain a Thing of the Past?

by Marissa Weiss

Northeastern soils are recovering but still show signs of damage

10 October 2011 | ScienceNOW

Economics Nobel for Teasing Out Cause and Effect in Macro Policy

by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

Prizewinning analyses of "rational expectations" bear on current woes but offer no clear solutions

10 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

Can Brain Scans Predict Music Sales?

by Greg Miller

A new study correlates activity in teenagers' neural reward circuitry with song sales 3 years later

26 May 2011 | ScienceNOW

Conquistador Silver May Not Have Sunk Spain's Currency

by Sara Reardon

Isotopic analysis of Spanish silver coins reveals an origin in Europe, not the New World

16 May 2011 | ScienceNOW

Bright Lights, Rich Cities

by Sara Reardon

Satellite images of nighttime lights could help economists model GDP in regions where it is poorly reported

11 October 2010 | ScienceNOW

Economics Nobel: Why Unemployment Is Inevitable

by Adrian Cho

Winners explained why people continue to be out of work even when the number of vacant jobs equals the number of job seekers

2 February 2010 | ScienceNOW

The 2011 Science Budget Roundup

by Science News Staff

Science funding rises despite discretionary budget freeze

28 September 2009 | ScienceNOW

The Upside of Recessions

by Cassandra Willyard

Economic downturns are linked to better health

24 February 2009 | ScienceNOW

A Divisive Budget, Invisible Ph.D.s, and a Virus Meeting Attacked by a Virus

by Science News Staff

Plus more, from Science's new policy blog, ScienceInsider

5 November 2008 | ScienceNOW

A Chilly Reception

by Wayne Kondro

Expert panel gives the cold shoulder to Canada's plans for Arctic research

22 May 2007 | ScienceNOW

More Carbon per Kilowatt

by Eli Kintisch

Study finds that greenhouse gas emissions are soaring

30 October 2006 | ScienceNOW

Warming World, Cooling Profits

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Report says climate change could burn huge chunk of world economy

9 October 2006 | ScienceNOW

Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded

by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

Laurels for theories that demystified inflation, unemployment, and growth

6 April 2006 | ScienceNOW

No Pain, No Collective Gain

by Mary Beckman

People want to live in societies in which freeloading is punishable

11 October 2005 | ScienceNOW

Economics Nobel Gets in the Game

by Constance Holden

Two honored for work with game theory

1 February 2005 | ScienceNOW

Getting Rich--a No Brainer?

by Kim Krieger

The intelligence of stock traders may have no effect on the market

12 October 2004 | ScienceNOW

Economies Behaving Badly

by Charles Seife

The 2004 Economics Nobel honors work on why economies go awry despite good policy

27 August 2004 | ScienceNOW

The Pleasure of Punishment

by Mary Beckman

Our brains may take special satisfaction in keeping others honest

27 July 2004 | ScienceNOW

Betting on the President

by Dana Mackenzie

Gamblers predict election outcomes better than pollsters

9 October 2002 | ScienceNOW

Economics Nobel Announced

by Constance Holden

Winners enriched the field with experimentation and human nature

16 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

When Playing Dumb Is Smart

by Dana Mackenzie

In some games, unsophisticated strategies are best

11 October 2000 | ScienceNOW

Prize Honors People-Sized Economics

by Charles Seife

Bank of Sweden Nobel awarded to two who designed tools for microeconomics

9 June 2000 | ScienceNOW

Making Forest Conservation Pay Off

by Dana Mackenzie

For developing countries, conservation doesn't pay. A study published in the 9 June issue of Science concludes that forest conservation provides net economic benefits for local communities and for the...

14 October 1999 | ScienceNOW

A Prize for Economic Prophecy

by Mark Sincell

Citing his "almost prophetic accuracy in terms of predicting the future development of international monetary arrangements," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences yesterday announced that it had awarded Columbia University...

15 October 1998 | ScienceNOW

Scientists Find Cash Flow

by Dana Mackenzie

While financial pundits fear that the global economy is headed down the drain, a team of physicists and economists has found new evidence that the world economy behaves like a...

14 October 1998 | ScienceNOW

Welfare Economist Wins Nobel

by David Malakoff

An Indian scholar who pioneered the theory behind the economics of poverty--and also demonstrated its practical applications--has won the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. In awarding today's prize,...

2 June 1998 | ScienceNOW

New Pharmaceutical Firm With Hefty R&D

by Science News Staff

Overnight, a pharmaceutical giant has been born, as two U.S. companies--Monsanto of St. Louis and American Home Products Inc. (AHP), of Madison, New Jersey--announced Monday that they will merge. The...

12 May 1998 | ScienceNOW

Crash Project to Sequence the Human Genome

by Science News Staff

A DNA sequencing maverick is joining with the world's largest maker of automated sequencing machines to form a new company that they say will "substantially complete the sequence" of the...

12 May 1998 | ScienceNOW

Europe OKs Biotech Patents

by Science News Staff

After 10 years of intense debate, the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, today approved new European patent legislation for biotechnology. The controversial directive affirms the right to stake claims on...

25 March 1998 | ScienceNOW

Space Tourism Near, Study Says

by Science News Staff

The day is fast approaching when thrillseekers hot for high G's, weightless nights, and an unobstructed view of the stars will be taking rockets to orbital hotels, according to a...

5 March 1998 | ScienceNOW

Lawsuit Targets Yellowstone Bioprospectors

by Science News Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Three environmental organizations announced here that they took legal action today to stop Yellowstone National Park from entering into a formal agreement with a San Diego-based biotech company that...

25 February 1998 | ScienceNOW

Campus Licensing Deals Taking Off

by Science News Staff

Relations between academia and industry--which went into a deep chill during the 1960s and 1970s--have grown warm and cozy in the 1990s. The best evidence of the warming trend may...

10 March 1997 | ScienceNOW

Will New Promises Save Russian Science?

by Science News Staff

MOSCOW--Destitute, their labs on the brink of ruin, Russian scientists may finally have something to cheer about. A series of public rallies in the last 2 weeks has elicited a...

6 December 1996 | ScienceNOW

Analysts Bullish on Biotech

by Science News Staff

The biotech industry saw its sales zoom by 18%, to $9.3 billion, in the 1996 fiscal year, according to an estimate released this week. This and other indicators, as well...

5 December 1996 | ScienceNOW

Europe Gives High-Tech a Financial Spark

by Science News Staff

PARIS--The European Union is about to launch a 4-year, $2.5-billion R&D effort to make up ground in the global battle for supremacy in electronics technologies. The ambitious program, called Microelectronic...

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