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Science News May 9, 2009 |
Letters / Science News Lamarck overshadowed by Darwin.  |
Science News Josh Korenblat |
Book Review: Darwin's Sacred Cause: How A Hatred Of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views On Human Evolution By Adrian Desmond And James Moore / Science News Adrian Desmond and James Moore, who received acclaim for a 1991 Darwin biography, persuasively show Darwin as a great unifier.  |
Scientific American May 2009 John Rennie |
See No Evil: The Danger of (Human) Primates Primates can be dangerous and do harm, especially the human ones  |
Scientific American May 2009 Stuart Fox |
How Giant Pterosaurs Took Flight Biomechanics suggests that a giraffe-size pterosaur could have jumped from all fours to get off the ground  |
Scientific American May 2009 Kate Wilcox |
Free Radical Shift: Antioxidants May Not Increase Life Span Antioxidants, abundant in pomegranates, counter free radical damage but may not delay aging.  |
Scientific American May 2009 Melinda Wenner |
Quiet Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria devoted to growth instead of "quorum sensing" communication could beat antibiotic resistance.  |
Scientific American May 2009 Christine Soares |
Cancer Clues from Embryonic Development Rethinking cancer by seeing tumors as a cellular pregnancy.  |
Chemistry World April 20, 2009 James Urquhart |
New method reveals small molecule-RNA conjugates US scientists using novel chemical screening methods have discovered a new class of small molecules connected to RNA, suggesting that cellular RNA may be more chemically diverse than previously thought.  |
Wired John Bohannon |
Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein A look at the protein chemistry world's biennial World Series, a competition to see who can predict the shape a protein will fold into, knowing nothing more than the sequence of its constituent parts.  |
Chemistry World April 16, 2009 Jon Cartwright |
Isolated microbes survive for millions of years Researchers in the US and the UK have found microbes in the Antarctic that appear to have survived in isolation, without sunlight or new supplies of nutrients, for more than a million years.  |
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