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Whatever does not kill a plant may actually make it stronger. After being partially eaten by grazing animals, for example, some plants grow bigger and faster and reproduce more successfully than they otherwise would. In a new study, researchers report that one secret to these plants’ post-traumatic triumph lies in their ability to duplicate their chromosomes – again and again – without undergoing cell division
Microbiologist Rosie Redfield is trying to replicate that arsenic bacterium study in public, a blogging watershed. Yes, gene therapy for leukemia looks promising indeed, but the new small study awaits replication. Gay's end? Why same-sex marriage could eradicate homosexuality. Plus, get your Google+ invite here, Take 2.
Birth control is free at last — a year from now. It includes sterilization and probably the coming contraceptives for men. The death of Amy Winehouse, addiction, and withdrawal from alcohol. How will the debt-ceiling legislation affect science and medicine?
Neuroscience explains the debt-limit crisis for you. The incredible shrinking brain. Is there life beyond Earth? Perhaps not. Protecting human research subjects. Find the Higgs boson at home in your spare time! Correction %^(. Human embryonic stem cells get their day in court.
Height and hormones. Should birth control be free? Does coffee prevent Alzheimer's disease? Should medical journalists be advocating early mammograms? Competition alert: Ed Yong is now a full-time freelance, gulp. Get your Google+ invite here.
Personal blogging is dead because of Google+. Or not. By faking a vaccination program, the CIA gets bin Laden family DNA. Or not. In any case, public health authorities are outraged and fear more anti-vaccine propaganda.
SciAm's new blog network is up, with 55 swell bloggers. How can the rest of us get any work done? A new autism twin study says environment matters more than genes, but others don't agree. Does which one matters more really matter?
The 2011 international convention of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) was recently held in Washington DC. I have put together a 2 minute video review of the meeting that may be of interest to those science writers who are curious about the meeting and what it is about