It's all about the meters. As any would-be installer of solar rooftop panels knows, having the right meter to count how much power your photovoltaics ...
One of the goals of regenerative medicine is to make tissue to replace our own damaged body parts. Thats still a ways off. But starting with mouse emb...
In the celebrity vaccine wars, Im siding with actress Amanda Peet. And comedian Bill Maher, well, I like your show, but when it comes to vaccines you ...
Did you see The Simpsons episode where Homer makes a toast to alcohol?: To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of lifes problems. There are a ...
Youve no doubt heard of free radicals, those nasty chemicals that seem to contribute to heart disease, cancer and all sorts of human ailments. Maybe y...
If the human genome were put in a straight line, it would be over six and a half feet long. So how do you store all that DNA in a tiny nucleus? And ha...
Homes are rising on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. No, it's not a return of Hoovervilles thanks to the Great Recession. These are solar homes c...
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in England, Yale Universitys Thomas Stei...
The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Charles Kao, of Standard Communications Labs in England and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and George Smith a...
The 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Harvards Jack Szostak, Johns Hopkinss Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn at U.C. San Francis...
