I missed this interesting discussion at Larry Moran's Sandwalk: Are biochemistry programs too hard compared to other biology majors? Larry says his biochemistry program is losing students to other…

Science writer Carl Zimmer is building anticipation for his new book, Microcosm: E. coli and The New Science of Life. His latest hype-building piece is up at Wired. It's short and worth checking out…

MONTREAL, Canada, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluestreak Technology (Montreal, Paris, Seoul) is excited to see Adobe's initiative to open the Flash format. Bluestreak's own MachBlue Player runs Flash…

It's not easy understanding all the nuances of particular disciplines in science even if you are in the field - science has gotten pretty precise. I have a good grasp of Maxwell's equations, for…

Always on the lookout for new ways to motivate graduate students to get their work finished, I took note of this handy item while flipping through the Fisher catalogue in search of a flammables…

Ethical debates over cloning are confusing enough, but even without the ethics issues the terminology of cloning is extremely confusing. Scientists bat around the word in many different contexts,…

NEW YORK, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- What: GoldenSource Corporation, a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions, is exhibiting at the SIFMA Operations Conference & Exhibit in…

SAN JOSE, California, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) was recently recognized for its development of the FingerChip(R) fingerprint sensor technology at the 2008 Frost…

In case you have missed them, two issues are now available for each of the new evolution journals: Evolutionary Applications Evolution: Education and Outreach Both are accessible online…

I had mentioned GraphJam on the old Genomicron. It's like LOLcats for nerds. Erm, for even bigger nerds. This one seems highly apt, though ALL CAPS alone is usually sufficient.  …