First edible GM animal? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may soon approve the first genetically modified animal for humans to eat
Carmen D’Cruz flies the flag for science communication
GIANT FLYING MONSTERS! No, seriously. As part of the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary celebrations, there’s a festival of arts and science on London’s Southbank this summer, See Further. I’ve already talked about Icarus at the Edge of Time, and will be participating in a Cafe Scientifique event discussing the history of scientific conversation on Monday…
Without the help of the rest of the team, defending against a penalty kick is arguably one of the hardest tasks faced by soccer goal keepers. But new research shows that the kicker’s body movements may betray its intention, hinting to the goalie which direction the ball is about to go in enough time to…
From Web of Stories, Sir Aaron Klug (Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1982) talks about the background to Cambridge Antibody Technology and describes how the first humanized antibodies were made: More information, and a transcript, are available from Web of Stories. (Web of Stories, along with F1000 and The Scientist, is part of the Science Navigation…
I’m writing this during England and the USA’s last chance to make it out of the group round of the World Cup. Those matches will soon be forgotten, but here’s some papers that (hopefully) will linger longer in the memory.
It’s been a while, I realize, since I last gave you a chance to win anything. So, here we go. For a chance of a Naturally Selected sweatshirt (here modelled by Neuroscience Section Head Andrew Lumsden),
Useless science denounced Five professors from Emory University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of California at Los Angeles railed against low-quality research last week in The Chronicle of Higher Education, arguing that an astounding growth in journals and quantity of publications, especially the increase in low-cited papers, has a “profoundly damaging effect” on science…
Are you a blue-footed booby? Perhaps you’re more of a wombat or gnu, or even a great bustard. More to the point, have you dressed up like one?
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