Genome sequencing shows that we're all mutants, a hundred times over.
Read More: The NIH's take on a recent study
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Etc: xkcd has an image that provides a great perspective on the world’s bodies of water, along with some of the creatures that live there.
xkcd has an image that provides a great perspective on the world's bodies of water, along with some of the creatures that live there.
Read More: The cartoon
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Etc: The original paper describing the Calvin cycle of photosynthesis contained a diagram of the equipment used to study it—complete with a stick-figure fisherman that slipped past reviewers.
The original paper describing the Calvin cycle of photosynthesis contained a diagram of the equipment used to study it—complete with a stick-figure fisherman that slipped past reviewers.
Read More: Via the Royal Society of Chemistry's blog
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Etc: The LHC is now gathering data from its first 8TeV collisions.
The LHC is now gathering data from its first 8TeV collisions.
Read More: The LHC progress page
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Etc: Here we go again—this time, the Tennessee Senate has passed a bill that would provide teachers with legal protection if they chose to criticize well supported scientific concepts.
Here we go again—this time, the Tennessee Senate has passed a bill that would provide teachers with legal protection if they chose to criticize well supported scientific concepts.
Read More: Some local coverage of its passage
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Etc: Some perspective on the scientific peer review process that will make sense to anyone who has ever played Team Fortress.
Some perspective on the scientific peer review process that will make sense to anyone who has ever played Team Fortress.
Read More: Peer fortress: The scientific battlefield, Found via John Hawks
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Etc: 3.141592653589793 2384626433832795 0288419716939 9375105820974 94459230781 640628620899 86280348253421170679
Read More: Pi Day
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Etc: NPR has a great story about a fantastically large insect that survived on a tiny, equally fantastic looking island for nearly a century.
NPR has a great story about a fantastically large insect that survived on a tiny, equally fantastic looking island for nearly a century.
Read More: via Robert Krulwich
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Etc: Elsevier, a major academic publisher, has backed away from legislation that would overturn the open access policy that governs research funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Elsevier, a major academic publisher, has backed away from legislation that would overturn the open access policy that governs research funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Read More: Elsevier's announcement, Our coverage of the Research Works Act
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Etc: Alex, an African grey parrot that had a way with words, had a mastery of numbers beyond what’s been seen before in birds.
Alex, an African grey parrot that had a way with words, had a mastery of numbers beyond what's been seen before in birds.
Read More: via Nature News
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