Visualizing birds: Part 2. Distant clusters, unfinished taxonomy
In 1911, Rutherford proposed correctly that essentially all the mass of an atom is concentrated in a tiny “central charge” (what we now call the nucleus) and that the rest…
In 1911, Rutherford proposed correctly that essentially all the mass of an atom is concentrated in a tiny “central charge” (what we now call the nucleus) and that the rest…
…of Lounsbery at a lively symposium on “Professors and Their Politics” 6 October 2007 at Harvard to review and discuss the findings of the survey. Journalist Scott Jaschik provides and…
…low-paying postdocs. The practically infinite availability of young foreign talent could maintain the system as it exists, although politics, prosperity, and currencies cause fluctuations. Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and China send…
…Series. This evening lecture series (which began about 1990 as the Zanvil Cohn Forum on Biomedical Affairs) brings thought leaders in science, business, health, politics, arts, and humanities to Rockefeller to address…
…USDA Forest Products Laboratory. KAFUS INDUSTRIES. 1999. Kafus options 147,000 acres in Arizona as proposed site for increased kenaf fibre production. News release. Available online at www. Kafus.com/pr/news.html. MOULTON, R.J.,…
The springboard for a recent news@nature.com item by Hannah Hickey “Butterflies poke holes in DNA barcodes” is a report by Gompert et al in press in Mol. Ecology on genetic…
The Continental SuperGrid concept for distribution of hydrogen and electricity that we have aided and abetted is gaining attention. An AP story in USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-04-10-super-grid_x.htm A Science Daily news…
…and colleagues (same institutions as above) demonstrated that Common Opposum (Didelphis marsupialis) and Virginia Opposum (D. virginiana), which are sympatric (live in the same area) in Mexico, are readily distinguished…
…one part of the enormous traffic in wildlife (120 million live animals and 25 million kilograms of non-live wildlife are imported annually into US) (Pavlin 2009 Emerging Infect Dis). The…