Archive for the ‘PopSci’ Category

How Scientists Stalked a Lethal Superbug—With the Killer’s Own DNA | Wired Science | Wired.com

Saturday, March 2nd, 2013

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/ff-kpc-superbug-nih/

Adam Gopnik: What Galileo Saw : The New Yorker

Friday, March 1st, 2013

Galileo as a difficult person !
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/02/11/130211crat_atlarge_gopnik

Study Finds Genetic Risk Factors Shared by 5 Psychiatric Disorders – NYTimes.com

Friday, March 1st, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/health/study-finds-genetic-risk-factors-shared-by-5-psychiatric-disorders.html

The Drama Over Project Encode, And Why Big Science And Small Science Are Different | Popular Science

Friday, March 1st, 2013

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/fracas-over-project-encode-and-why-big-science-and-small-science-are-different

The Drama Over Project Encode, And Why Big Science And Small Science Are Different | Popular Science

Friday, March 1st, 2013

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/fracas-over-project-encode-and-why-big-science-and-small-science-are-different

Influential Few Predict Behavior of the Many: Scientific American

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

QT:” looked at the entire human metabolic network and found that concentrations of about 10 percent of the body’s 2,763 metabolites could be used to determine the levels of all the rest.”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=influential-few-predict-behavior

The five most promising new cancer treatments – health – 16 October 2012 – New Scientist

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

rnai, immuno, bact, viruses, nano

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628861.800-the-five-most-promising-new-cancer-treatments.html?page=3

Influential Few Predict Behavior of the Many: Scientific American

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=influential-few-predict-behavior

The Search for the Genetics of Intelligence – WSJ.com

Sunday, February 17th, 2013

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324162304578303992108696034.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Dcomments

Deprive yourself: Real benefits of fasting, 11/22/12 New Scientist; appears to be better than caloric restriction

Friday, February 15th, 2013

Deprive yourself: The real benefits of fasting – health – 22 November 2012 – New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628912.400-deprive-yourself-the-real-benefits-of-fasting.html