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Science In Whose Service?

Oct 17, 2006

The U.S. government is using scientific atmospheric tests to determine whether or not North Korea exploded an underground nuclear device. Air samples taken by the Pentagon have been analyzed, however, with contradictory results. One test showed that there were...

The Nobel Prizes

Oct 2, 2006

The first of five Nobel Prizes was awarded today in Sweden to two American scientists "for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA." The recipient were Andrew Z. Fire (Stanford), and Craig C. Mello (University of Massachusetts. More...

International Space Station Advances; Impact on Research

Mar 4, 2006

NASA announced, after a meeting in Florida among all of the participating countries (United States, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada), that a new plan for the completing the $100 billion International Space Station (ISS) was worked out. NASA indicated that it would...