Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Monday, December 10th, 2007
Enrico Fermi researchers have made simple cells comprising a fatty membrane containing just 36 enzymes and purified ribosomes.
The Italian team's advance is to make simple cells which are essentially bags made up of a fatty membrane containing just 36 enzymes and purified ribosomes - microscopic components common to all cells ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Andrew Leonard in his Salon article mocks science publishers that began PR and lobbying campaign to strain free access to publications resulted from (US) government-funded research (that's nearly all fundamental research, as far as I understand). In particular they stated in their press release:
Policies are being proposed that threaten to ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Robert Roy Britt at LiveScience writes:
The gargantuan hole was found by examining observations made using the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, funded by the National Science Foundation.
There is a "remarkable drop in the number of galaxies" in a region of sky in the constellation Eridanus, [researcher] Lawrence Rudnick [of ...
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