Sandwalk

  One of my postings, Good Science Writers: Richard Dawkins , has been re-posted on RichardDawkins.net . This doesn't happen very often—...

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1943. "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes" George de...

We've recently been debating the purpose of our undergraduate program in biochemistry. There are some who think that the main goal is to...

  Richard Dawkins was not included in Richard Dawkins' book: The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing . The reason for the omission is ...

  Last week, Olivia Judson published a controversial article on the New York Time website. She made the case for getting rid of terms like ...

  Today's molecule is not a specific molecule but rather a type of molecule. You have to identify the type of molecule shown here. There...

  The 34th edition of Gene Genie has been posted at ScienceRoll [ Gene Genie 34: Summertime ]. This is the first time I host Gene Genie si...

  This is a snapshot of an animated picture of a "species-scape." The size of the organisms represent their relative abundance on ...

  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974. "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the c...

  I'm at the Chautauqua Institution this week where the theme is The Ethical Frontiers of Science . Today's speaker was Arthur Capla...

  Today's molecules are the little black blobs in the photograph. One of them is circled in the lower left-hand corner. There's a di...

  Sean B. Carroll is Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin (USA). 1 His researc...

John Dennehy of The Evilutionary Biologist continues his almost perfect 1 record of picking important papers for his Citation Classic. T...

  Eugenie C. Scott has been the Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) since 1987. She is a physical anthr...

  Olivia Judson is a research fellow at Imperial College in London (UK). She studies evolution. Judson is a former pupil of W.D. Hamilton. ...