How do children learn to cooperate with others? A new cross-cultural study suggests that the answer depends less on universal rules and more on the social norms surrounding the child. In the study, researchers examined…
NASA’s Newest Commercial Flight Provider Launches Balloon
[caption id="attachment_3396" align="alignnone" width="673"] NASA fund's flight on Arizona's World View Balloon carrying experiments to a near space environment. Image Credit: World View Photo[/caption] NASA's newest American commercial near-space services provider, World View of Tucson,…
Study: Prices of cancer drugs have soared since…
Researchers find a 10 percent annual increase, after inflation. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The prices of leading cancer drugs have risen at rates far outstripping inflation over the last two decades, according to a new study co-authored…
Mapping sea surface from the space station
A new concept that involves mounting an instrument on the International Space Station and taking advantage of signals from navigation satellites could provide measurements of sea-surface height and information about features related to ocean currents,…
Groovy Rings of Saturn
From afar, Saturn's rings look like a solid, homogenous disk of material. But upon closer examination from Cassini, we see that there are varied structures in the rings at almost every scale imaginable. Structures in…