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Protein Synthesis Science Video
on Sep 14, 2008 in Multimedia We’ve already seen a video about how proteins are made. That video, from 1970, used humans to illustrate the science in a fun and energetic (if a touch weird) way. Well now someone has made a new video explaining the science of protein synthesi...
Space News Round-up
on Aug 27, 2008 in Science There has been a lot of cool and very exciting astronomy news lately that I want to share with you in one big gulp. First up is news about a new massive object discovered at the edge of the solar system. True to astronomers’ tradition of coming...
What Does an Ant Colony Look Like?
on Aug 3, 2008 in Multimedia I found this very cool video about scientists studying ant colonies. They found a large grass-cutter ants colony and studied how the colony is ventillated. In another colony, they poured a ridiculous amount of cement to freeze the colony’s stru...
Water Confirmed on Mars; Liquid Lake on Titan
on Jul 30, 2008 in Science NASA just scored a double whammy: water is now confirmed for the first time ever on Mars and a liquid hydrocarbon lake, which is the only other place in the solar system that has liquid on its surface. reddit_url="http://blogsci.com/science/water-con...
A New Way to Age?
on Jul 24, 2008 in Science A very interesting paper has just been published about [review=http://www.cell.com/content/article/fulltext?uid=PIIS0092867408007071]aging in worms[/review]. The paper basically uncovers evidence that goes against the current thinking about how and w...
Richard Dawkins Interview
on Jul 23, 2008 in Multimedia Finally a sensible (and civil!) interview with Prof Dawkins in a mainstream news channel, AlJazeera English. The interviewer, Riz Khan, explores the whole evolution/creationism/intelligent design debate (as if we needed one…) in very broad stro...