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The Six Million Dollar Moss: Why Biology is WAY Cooler Than Nuclear Physics

May 27, 2009

As mentioned in the last post, for some reason (actually quite a good reason we’ll get to soon) scientists at ETH Zurich and the University of Freiburg im Breisgau thought it’d be a great idea to splice some human genes into . . . er, moss . . .  and see what happened. Ordinarily, you’d [...]

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Moss That Swings Both (All?) Ways

May 23, 2009

I’m sometimes greatly amused by the quality of press release science writing that is taking the place of professional science writing these days, since no one will pay for us to do it full time anymore (Science Daily, a major source of  internet science news, is made almost entirely of press releases reprinted verbatim. And [...]

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