By Ewen Callaway pf Nature magazine Stored inside Craig Venter's genome are clues to the history of humankind, including global migrations and population crashes. [More]
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Feed SubscriptionNASA Chief to Congress: Save the James Webb Space Telescope
NASA chief Charlie Bolden went to bat for the agency's imperiled next-generation space telescope Tuesday (July 12), telling members of Congress that the instrument has greater potential for discovery than the iconic Hubble Space Telescope. A proposed congressional budget bill announced last week would terminate NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an ambitious instrument with a history of delays and cost overruns
Read More »Ten Principles To Live By In Fiercely Complex Times
If you're like most people I work with in companies, the demands come at you from every angle, all day long, and you have to make difficult decisions without much time to think about them. What enduring principles can you rely on to make choices that reflect openness, integrity and authenticity? Here are ten that work for me: 1.
Read More »Stinky feet may fight malaria, scientists discover
Smelly socks repel humans but attract mosquitoes - a strategic object in malaria prevention?
Read More »Telling science stories…wait, what’s a "story"?
Yikes! I have a blog again! The infamous Pepsigate happened about a year ago. [More]
Read More »Garcia may not be a bad long shot in British Open
By now, he should have won a few of these, maybe more. When Sergio Garcia first teed it up in the British Open as a teenager there seemed no way his name wouldn't someday be inscribed on the claret jug
Read More »Outbreak of ‘Nodding Syndrome’ in Children Stumps Experts
By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine The boy was perhaps seven or eight, although he could have been older: among other things, the disease that afflicts him stunts growth.
Read More »Pacific Northwest Gets More Fast-Charge Juice For Its Electric Highway
The future of electric vehicles (EVs) in the U.S. balances tenuously these days on a chicken-and-egg quandary . Roadside stations that charge EVs in less than 30 minutes are needed to encourage drivers to buy EVs, yet there must also be enough EVs already on the road to justify the investment in a fast-charging infrastructure.
Read More »LIVE: Updates from the British Open
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Read More »New Tweaks Could Turn Apple TV Into A Game-Playing, Video-Chatting, Multimedia Superstar
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Read More »Ouch! 9 myths about low back pain
Think you know how to treat lower back pain? Don't be so sure
Read More »Fistful of Fish: DNA Sequence for Limb Development Existed Long before Legs Evolved
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Read More »Odd Bicycles from the Archives, or Ways to Cheat in Cycling Besides Doping
This past Monday, the first doping scandal of the 2011 Tour de France was announced. Russian rider Alexandr Kolobnev tested positive for the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide (used to mask other doping agents) and has since voluntarily left the race while his urine is tested for further substances.
Read More »INJAZ Turns Young Jordanians Into Entrepreneurs
A startling 70% of Jordanian youth who are one year out of school are still unemployed. By giving them access to classes on business, the organization is creating a new culture for startups.
Read More »A windy test awaits at Sandwich for British Open
Steve Stricker can appreciate better than most how the British Open is unlike any other major.
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