Answering the Endless ‘Why?’: Children’s Questions Matter, and So Do Our Answers
March 29, 2018
When you spend time with preschoolers, it can seem like they ask a question a minute. In reality, it’s probably more, because studies show that preschoolers ask an average of 72 questions per hour. Although the endless …
Loneliness Is Bad for Your Health, but How?
March 28, 2018
Feeling lonely and unloved are bad for your heart, and not just in the figurative sense. In fact, studies show that loneliness, marital distress, and lack of social support are linked with a host of negative health …
FY 2018 Federal Funding Set, but Work Continues on NIH Clinical Trials
March 28, 2018
The omnibus bill to fund the federal government in FY 2018 was signed into law on Friday, March 23, 2018. The two-year budget deal reached on February 9, 2018, increased spending caps for both defense and nondefense …
Challenges Remain for NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences in FY 2019
March 28, 2018
The House Committee on Space, Science and Technology (SST) held a hearing on March 16, 2018, to review the Administration’s 2019 fiscal year budget proposal for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Witnesses present at the hearing included …
Budget Deals, Side Deals, and An Addendum: The Confusing State of Federal Science Funding
February 20, 2018
As Congressional leaders geared up to pass a fifth Continuing Resolution to keep the federal government funded in a fiscal year that began almost 6 months ago, there was increased enthusiasm that a budget deal to lift …
Individualized Medicine with No Side Effects? It’s Already Here
February 16, 2018
We live in an age of personalization, and medicine is increasingly part of that trend. Recent advances in genetic research have allowed medications to be tailored to a person’s DNA profile, for example. But another form of …
