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Market Exchange Rules Responsible for Wealth Concentration, Physicists Say
March 7, 2012 — Physicists have shown that wealth concentration invariably stems from a particular type of market exchange rules -- where agents cannot receive more income than their own capital. The authors ... > full story -
Law That Regulates Shark Fishery Is Too Liberal, Experts Say
March 2, 2012 — Shark fins are worth more than other parts of the shark and are often removed from the body, which gets thrown back into the sea. To curtail this wasteful practice, many countries allow the fins to ... > full story -
Many Young People Don't Know What Constitutes Sensible Alcohol Consumption
February 21, 2012 — A new study reveals that young people do not possess the knowledge or skills required to adhere to U.S. government guidelines for responsible alcohol ... > full story -
Charter Service: Encasing the Magna Carta
February 8, 2012 — You often hear about the Framers of the Constitution, but not so much the framers of the Magna Carta. They work for the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Not the authors, of ... > full story -
Anti-Infective Drug Shortages Pose Threat to Public Health and Patient Care
January 20, 2012 — Shortages of key drugs used to fight infections represent a public health emergency and can put patients at risk, according to a new review. Frequent anti-infective shortages can substantially alter ... > full story -
Girl Power Surges in India
January 12, 2012 — An affirmative action law in India has led to a direct role model effect and is changing the way the girls as well as their parents think about female roles of leadership and has improved their ... > full story -
Chronic Poverty Stalks Haitian Earthquake Victims Still Living in Camps
January 10, 2012 — A new study of aid to Haiti finds that 36 percent of households in the directly affected area -- and 54 percent of those living in camps -- still have not recovered to their pre-earthquake levels ... > full story -
Low Reporting of Clinical Trial Data in Key U.S. Database, Study Shows
January 5, 2012 — Many clinical trials in the United States are failing to report their findings in a publicly available database, despite a recent law that compels them to do so, say ... > full story -
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Benefits of New U.S. Air Quality Rules Greatly Outweigh Costs
December 21, 2011 — Scientists have written an expanded review of six new air quality regulations by the EPA. These include the first national standards in the U.S. for reducing dangerous emissions of mercury and other ... > full story -
How to Break Murphy's Law
December 21, 2011 — Murphy's Law is a useful scapegoat for human error: "If something can go wrong, it will." But, a new study hopes to put paid to this unscientific excuse for errors by showing that the introduction of ... > full story
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