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Popular Mechanics January 21, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Cells Skirt Reality and Supersize on Fringe: Hollywood Fact vs Fiction Parasites were back on the TV show Fringe, after making a factually-challenged appearance in an earlier episode.  |
Outside January 2009 Jason Daley |
Required Reading Short reviews of The Well-Dressed Ape and Every Living Thing, two new books about our animal nature and the scientists who explored the complex tree of life.  |
Chemistry World January 20, 2009 Nina Notman |
Raman hope for childless couples A non-invasive way to test the quality of sperm to be use in fertility treatments has been developed by UK scientists.  |
Wired January 19, 2009 Brendan I. Koerner |
DIY DNA: One Father's Attempt to Hack His Daughter's Genetic Code Nobody can say for sure what lies ahead for Beatrice, because no one really knows what's wrong with her.  |
Scientific American February 2009 Kate Wong |
New Fossil Shows how the Turtle Got Its Shell Odontochelys semitestacea, the oldest turtle fossil yet, has a fully formed lower shell, or plastron, but lacks a fully formed upper shell  |
Chemistry World January 19, 2009 Manisha Lalloo |
Synthetic HDL could boost body's 'good cholesterol' US scientists say gold nanoparticle based therapies could be used to help boost levels of good cholesterol in our bodies.  |
Chemistry World January 18, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Plants reprogrammed to produce potential drugs Plants could one day function as factories for producing anti-cancer drugs, say US scientists.  |
Scientific American January 2009 John Rennie |
A Molecular Checkup: The Nano Future of Medicine The Editor in Chief of Scientific American introduces the February 2009 issue  |
Science News January 31, 2009 Elizabeth Quill |
Book Review: Freaks Of Nature - What Anomalies Tell Us About Development And Evolution By Mark S. Blumberg A professor of psychology and editor in chief of Behavioral Neuroscience, argues that scientists haven't given nature's oddities enough attention.  |
Science News January 31, 2009 Tom Siegfried |
Book Review: Charles Darwin: The 'Beagle' Letters, Frederick Burkhardt, Editor Charles Darwin was a prolific letter writer -- not unusual in his day, of course, before telephones, e-mail and Facebook.  |
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