Last week's news: The bacterium that substitutes arsenic for phosphorus is not, after all, from outer space. This week's news: Many scientists doubt that the bug is even very good at substituting arsenic for phosphorus.
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Aliens abduct bloggers! Or did bloggers abduct aliens? And did you hear, they all ate arsenic at a NASA press conference! Anyway, things are a bit better for HIV infection and AIDS.
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media has a two-part series on leading climate scientists’ and science journalists’ “Lessons Learned” from the climate change controversies of the past 12 months.
Scientists world-wide collaborated on observing coral reefs and analyzing satellite data to determine the extent of coral bleaching. It isn't a pretty picture.
Dr. Jennifer Shine Dyer thought she was pushing the envelope when she moved her practice from fax to email communication. Then her patients told her, “email is for old people.” Dr. Dyer’s story of reaching teenage diabetics through a little creativity and a lot of Facebook and Twitter is an inspired look at the future of medicine.
It's all brain all the time at the Society for Neuroscience. Celebrities and the brain. Female orgasm and What Women Want: The truth about premature ejaculation. Plus oxytocin, grad students, optogenetics, jet lag, and improving memory.
Free online: Wise advice from your science-writing peers, direct from ScienceWriters2010, the NASW annual meeting, Plus waiting for ScienceOnline2011. Plus the truth about Daylight Saving Time: If you spring forward, you might fall back.
The National Association of Science Writers is meeting at Yale, and you can be there even if you're not there. Plus post-election postmortem.
The Open Notebook opens up the science writing process for your scrutiny. Plus science-related election miscellany.