ByGwyneth Dickey Zakaib of Nature magazine it Parker doesn't just study traumatic brain injury in the lab, he's also seen it at close range while serving in Afghanistan. [More]
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By Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib of Nature magazine Like the computer chips made by Intel, the company that Moore co-founded, the Ion Personal Genome Machine (PGM) exploits semiconductor technology, with its ability to deliver ever-increasing speed and lower costs--a trend predicted by 'Moore's law' some 50 years ago. [More]
Read More »Geneticists Bid to Build a Better Bee
By Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib for Nature magazine For Scott Cornman, the honeybee genome is a prized resource, yet he spends much of his time removing it. [More]
Read More »Telescope will track space junk
By Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib of Nature magazine A ground-based telescope that can scan the skies faster than any other of its size could help to protect satellites from collisions with space debris and each other. [More]
Read More »U.S. Science Agencies Brace for Shutdown
By Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib of Nature magazine Cancer patients desperate to get into government run clinical trials will be sidelined.
Read More »Low-Dose Radiation Risks Unknown
By Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib One thing is certain about the human costs of the radiation leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan: they will pale in comparison to the catastrophic consequences of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that triggered the crisis. [More]
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