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Are Controls on Bird Flu Research a Good Idea?

Two scientists who independently concocted potentially dangerous strains of bird flu viruses and have had the bioweapons community in a tizzy for the past month with the pending publication of their work today said that they would suspend their research for 60 days .

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Physicists develop a method of detecting counterfeit whiskey using spectroscopy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists Praveen Ashok, Bavishna Praveen, and K. Dholakia working together at the University of St Andrews in Scotland have developed a method for testing whiskey for authenticity using a crafted device that allows for measurements via spectroscopy.

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Hungry for Knowledge, with Oliver Smithies

Geneticist Oliver Smithies is a toolmaker. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for discoveries that led to the development of knockout mice

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New data suggests the universe is clumpier than thought

(PhysOrg.com) -- After analyzing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSK), cosmologist Shaun Thomas and colleagues from the University College of London, have concluded that the universe is "clumpier" than scientists have thought, leading to speculation that new theories need to be made to explain why the matter that makes up the universe isn’t as smooth as models have suggested they should be. The results of their research, published on Physical Review Letters, show that there is either faulty evidence in their discovery, or that established laws of gravity do not apply to such a large scale as the entire universe.

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