Monday, January 7, 2008

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Medical Science

(Charlie Archambault for USN&WR)

A Stem Cell Victory

The creation of stem cells from human skin cells is one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs since cloning, writes columnist Dr. Bernadine Healy.

Science Blog: Thinking Harder

Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) (Getty Images)

Fart Like a Kangaroo (and Save the Climate)

If cows and sheep can, I'm positive we can.

Science Education

For Frogs, a Digital Detour

Software makes it possible for students to swap a scalpel for a computer mouse in the Biology lab.

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NSF

Primordial soup and sandwich

Primordial soup and sandwich. This sketch shows the different types of biological molecules in the many spaces between mica sheets. (Helen Greenwood Hansma, UC Santa Barbara)

Was There a Sandwich With That Primordial Soup?

A scientist this week proposed a new answer to that most-existential of questions: “How did life begin?”

Building

A new study says need for more housing as a result of divorce is having a bad effect on the environment. (Dept. of Housing and Urban Development)

Want to Go Green? See a Marriage Counselor

A new study says more housing as a result of divorce is having a bad effect on the environment.

Termites on tree

Scientists have provided the most comprehensive picture yet of exactly what goes on in the dark reaches of a termite’s plumbing. (David Gilbert, DOE Joint Genome Institute)

Termite Bowels May Provide Method for Making Biofuels

Scientists provided the most comprehensive picture yet of the dark reaches of a termite’s plumbing.

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