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Today’s Newscripts post was written by C&EN intern and genomics fiend Puneet Kollipara. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Human Genome Project’s completion—when scientists successfully sequenced nearly all the base pairs of human DNA. It’s also the 60th anniversary of James Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. What [...]
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The Newscripts blog would like to be closer Internet buddies with our glossy print Newscripts column, so here we highlight what’s going on in the print issue of C&EN. There’s an unfortunate trend that seems to be becoming increasingly popular in today’s science news world. The recipe goes like this: Take one misleading headline, add an introductory sentence [...]
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Silly samplings from this week’s science news, compiled by Sophia Cai, Bethany Halford, and Jeff Huber. Newest scare tactic to prevent teen births: photos of pregnant boys. [Today] Speaking of dude looks like a lady, Aerosmith’s organist is a leading geneticist in his spare time. [CNN] Mountain livin’ changes the way people talk. In a [...]
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If you read this blog with any regularity (I know there’s at least one of you out there, two tops), you’ll remember a post I wrote awhile back bemoaning the lack of chemistry coloring books. I had just come across a supercool version about biology—filled with stem cells and neurons and viruses, oh my!—and was [...]
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Some 20,000 11-year-olds voted to determine the winners of the Flame Challenge 2 competition. Depending on the format of scientists’ responses to this year’s question, “What is time?” entries were categorized as written or visual. Nicholas Williams, a retired scientist who spent 33 years working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and ACS member Steven Maguire, [...]
