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Popular Mechanics
July 1, 2009
Lisa Merolla |
Top 18 Species Named After Famous People Naming species after celebrities is one seriously effective way for scientists to draw attention to taxonomy.   |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Erik Sofge |
6 Future Mods for Our Minds and Bodies From custom body parts to robotic arms, the medical future looks exciting. |
Chemistry World
June 28, 2009
Jon Cartwright |
Antimicrobial nanoparticles may help fight brain infections Antimicrobial nanoparticles that can cross the, almost impermeable, blood-brain barrier have been created by Asian researchers. |
Chemistry World
June 25, 2009
Ned Stafford |
Slow release pesticide hits resistant bugs Italian chemical company Endura has signed a licensing agreement with UK and Australian research institutes allowing it to commercialize a new crop protection method that involves time-delayed release of micro-encapsulated insecticides. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Evan Ratliff |
Origin of Species: How a T. Rex Femur Sparked a Scientific Smackdown As the modern discipline of bioinformatics comes crashing into analog fields like paleontology, researchers are just beginning to grapple with questions that the dinosaur controversy inadvertently unearthed |
Science News
July 4, 2009
Rachel Zelkowitz |
Book Review: Play: How It Shapes The Brain, Opens The Imagination, And Invigorates The Soul By Stuart Brown With Christopher Vaughan The drive to play is as natural as the drive for food and sex, the authors of this book convincingly argue. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Bears and Other Predators Invade U.S. Neighborhoods When Europeans settled the New World, they dealt with predators by showing them the business end of a gun. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Robots That Dress Like Animals for Science To better understand animal behavior, scientists are dressing up data-gathering robots in animal garb. By fitting in with their wild, unsuspecting friends, robot bees, turkeys and lizards are recording intimate details |
Chemistry World
June 18, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Chemical speed-dating even faster Researchers in the US have adapted a DNA amplification technique to develop a simpler way to rapidly screen chemical reactions. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Kate Wong |
Scientific American recommends 3 books about the moon Also: Becoming Human, and Amazing Animals |
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