As an economics and political science major, my take on scientific news and events will be more geared towards the implications of the discovery in terms of policy. Science in today’s world and global economy, especially here in the United States, is increasingly important to consider when making policy choices. The more we research, the more we strip away our ignorance of the impact past practices have had on the environment and on ourselves. Things like global warming, automobile emissions, dwindling oil reserves, improvements in the fields of genetics and alternative energies all make the number of factors to consider when making a choice exponentially larger. New questions arrive (such as the ethics behind stem cell research and cloning), and solutions are found to existing problems (such as new cures for diseases). (Read more…)