This video addresses:
* What does science tell us about children's nutritional needs worldwide?
* Is there enough time in the school day for exercise?
* How can nutrition instruction fit into the K-12 science curriculum?
* What roles can communities, schools, culture, and people play in addressing the problem of childhood obesity?
After more than a decade of U.S. regulations that first prompted and later required testing for children's medicines, less than half of the drugs that need to be studied have been studied. Technology may help speed up the process, but there's still some uncertainty over whether the laws that now require pediatric clinical trials will still be in place in 2012.
AAAS, the world's largest science society, congratulates the next president of the United States, Senator Barack Obama, in this video dated 7 November 2008. For the full AAAS statement, see: http://tinyurl.com/5 rbggo
As in civil society, where there must necessarily be checks and balances on freedom of expression, cells have evolved a range of mechanisms to regulate the expression of their constituent genes. This video presentation, an accompaniment to Science's 28 March 2008 special issue on gene regulation highlights the central role of RNA in gene regulation.
Scowls, communicates with grunts and growls--it's not the human teenager, it's the toadfish. A July 18 2008 study in the journal Science by Andrew Bass and colleagues shows that toadfish share the ability to vocalize with many other animals, from birds, to frogs, to humans. See http://www.sciencema g.org.
Forests provide vital goods and services including food, fuel, and fiber, and are major reservoirs of global carbon. This video presentation, an accompaniment to Science's 13 June 2008 special issue on forests, discusses efforts to understand how forests influence climate and some of the challenges of global forest governance.
Science Podcast host Robert Frederick produced and narrates a special video accompaniment to Greg Miller's article on doing research in online virtual worlds, from Science's 7 September 2007 special issue on social cognition.
Ten-minute video, accompanying Science's year-end special issue, features Francis Collins of NIH, David Altshuler of the Broad Institute, and Science's Liz Pennisi reviewing some of the work that led studies in human genetic variation to be tagged the top scientific story for 2007.
People have a love-hate relationship with cities, for the opportunities they provide and the problems they create. This video presentation, an accompaniment to Science's 8 February 2008 special issue on cities, discusses some of the implications of rapid urbanization for our daily lives, our environment, and future sustainability.
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