A series of clever experiments performed in the Netherlands shows that signs of social disorder, such as graffiti and littering, can increase peoples' willingness to disobey social rules, researchers say.
While societies face a daunting challenge trying to reverse the impact of human-induced climate change, the living planet itself offers one means for a rescue plan, according to a prominent ecologist who delivered the inaugural AAAS-Hitachi Lecture on Science and Society.
The United States is entering a critical period of policy transition. Beginning with the advent of a new administration in Washington, and continuing through the end of 2010, all of America's national security and defense planning guidance will be revised. Certainly the need for change is manifest.
An ambitious series on memory and the brain, a look at whether research supports widespread use of anti-cholesterol medications, and a broadcast account of the contentious battle over intelligent design in Dover, Pennsylvania, are among the winners of the 2008 AAAS Science Journalism Awards.
At top-level meetings in Vietnam this fall, AAAS officials pledged to work with the country's science and technology leaders in developing new research and education initiatives, including Vietnam's first investigator-driven, peer-reviewed funding agency.
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