Molecularist

Interesting list of info. I'm very much a proponent for working with the noise in biology.

The "competition closes in less than a week–though one imagines that if a solution is found, the race to develop a space dryer that doesn't lose astronauts' socks can't be far behind."

"Anil Potti is under investigation for false claims on his CV and doubts over the data in his papers." Hoo-boy, an ivory tower, once more besmirched.

Explains a few things.

"It misread the way the industry was merging with computing and social networking."

Uh, no it didn't. As one of the many who were pointing the way, it wasn't a mis-read as much as a inability to translate the obvious into products.

These guys have produced the most amazing things and they are still at it. This video is not to be missed.

Absolutely brilliant.

"Hey, guys, want to impress ladies on the dance floor?"

"Researchers gave single-celled slime molds a “food test”"

Absolutely brilliant.

"Hey, guys, want to impress ladies on the dance floor?"

"Researchers gave single-celled slime molds a “food test”"

Absolutely brilliant.

"Hey, guys, want to impress ladies on the dance floor?"

"Researchers gave single-celled slime molds a “food test”"

Absolutely brilliant.

"Hey, guys, want to impress ladies on the dance floor?"

"Researchers gave single-celled slime molds a “food test”"

Absolutely brilliant.

"Hey, guys, want to impress ladies on the dance floor?"

"Researchers gave single-celled slime molds a “food test”"

Absolutely brilliant.

"Hey, guys, want to impress ladies on the dance floor?"

"Researchers gave single-celled slime molds a “food test”"

Absolutely brilliant.

"Hey, guys, want to impress ladies on the dance floor?"

"Researchers gave single-celled slime molds a “food test”"

"Dyer thinks ants could be having landscape-scale effects in other ecosystems too, including forests in the American tropics where some common plant species are defended by ants."

"Mearns sees reason for optimism. He says with Hazen's data and the rest of the data streaming in from elsewhere, scientists are now starting to think the oil will be gone much sooner than people thought before. "We're talking days to months.""

"Butler is no longer at Texas Tech, but several reports identified him as a current or former professor at Ross University in Dominica. He is listed in a 2009-2010 academic catalogue as a member of a university medical facility in the Bahamas."

Shifty fellow.

"In 2003, researchers figured out the culprit behind a massive die-off of Asian vultures first noticed in the late 1990s: the veterinary drug diclofenac—an antinflamatory painkiller given to cattle. Vultures ingested the drug by eating the carcasses of treated cattle, then died of kidney failure. The scope of the problem is huge. Populations of Asian vulture species are down more than 96% since the early 1990s."

Interesting story on what happened when vulture numbers went down.