I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
A team of Canadian and American researchers say they have found the long elusive hiding spot for HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, and believe that combining chemotherapy with anti-retroviral medications could eliminate the virus completely from the human body, according to a report on Canadian Television.
First spotted on Feb. 28, an asteroid identified as 2009 DD45 buzzed by our planet on Monday, only 40,000 miles overhead between earth and the moon. Sky and Telescope reported that the asteroid flew over at an elevation twice as far above the earth as the orbit of telecommunications satellites we rely on every day.
Jon Miller, the John A. Hannah Professor of integrative studies and director of the International Center for the Advancement of Scientific Literacy at Michigan State University, told a symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting recently that the U.S. still leads the world in science literacy. ScienceDaily reports:
Philip Gingerich, a professor of paleontology at the University of Michigan and probably the world’s foremost expert on the evolution of whales, has found another early species of whale that tells us much about the habitat they lived in and their habits. Wired has the story:
The massive layoffs in the mainstream media continue to pile up. The Columbia Journalism Review reports that CNN is doing away with their entire science and technology reporting group:
Scientists at the University of Michigan have come up with a new way of converting ocean and river currents into electricity with a cost lower than than other new forms of power generation. The Telegraph reports:
And not just any water, but the astronauts own urine. Science Daily reports on a new breakthrough that will double the number of astronauts who can stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) by recapturing and purifying their urine and turning it into clean water:
This is a guest editorial by Robert T. Pennock, an evolutionary scientist and philosopher of science at Michigan State University. He is the author of “Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism,” and was an expert witness in the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover trial that ruled that teaching ID creationism in public schools [...]
Here’s a selection of technology news from around Michigan this past week. Michigan wants high-tech companies to compete for state loans A second competitive round for $30 million in awards was launched by Michigan’s 21st Century Jobs Fund this past week. Companies that focus on life sciences, alternative energy, advanced automotive materials and manufacturing, and [...]
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