The father of MP3 recently established the Digital Media Project which aims to formulate a new standard for digital audio and video. If things proceed according to plan, the media world will never be the same. Scientific American, May 2004 Read it Technorati Tags: MP3, Scientific American
Scientists turn to satellites for help in predicting avalanches. Reporting from the Svalbard Island Scientific American, February 16, 2004 READ IT
Is the U.S. starting to lose its edge in basic research? Scientific American, November 2002 [READ IT] Technorati Tags: research communication, research management, science communication, science journalism, Scientific American
The life of Judah Folkman took an unexpected turn one morning in May 1998. That day, a front-page article in the New York Times announced that Folkman, a professor at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, had discovered two natural compounds, angiostatin and endostatin, that dramatically shrunk tumors in mice by cutting the cancer’s blood [...]
A few hundred yards away from the Vatican, a fertility clinic has become both the top destination for desperate couples and the pope’s most troublesome neighbor. Ignoring nearly universal opprobrium, Severino Antinori presses ahead with plans to clone a human being Scientific American, April 01, 2002 [READ IT] Technorati Tags: Severino Antinori, Cloning, Reproduction, science [...]
Scientific American, February, 2002 A two-parts story about the use of predictive genetic tests, featuring my aunt Wilma. Included in the anthology book: “Genome, a collection of the best essays and articles on unlocking the secrets of the human genome”, River Cove Press. Part I : Marina, a young woman living near Varese, Italy, stood [...]
Scientific American, January 13, 2002 In a hospital northeast of Kabul, surgeon Gino Strada is redefining what it means to provide quality medical care in a combat zone. By Sergio Pistoi and Marco Cattaneo Gino_Strada_Scientific American_ Extreme Medicine (pdf) Link to Scientific American Website Technorati Tags: gino strada, Scientific American, war medicine
Test-tube studies have uncovered key facts about the breast cancer gene BRCA1, but new animal models of the disease promise to reveal much more Scientific American, June 11, 2001 [READ IT] Technorati Tags: breast cancer, puppy, tumors, tumours
Words of advice from the Wild, Wild West—stay on guard when “lead” is rising in the air—may now ring true in a more literal sense: elevated levels of airborne lead correlate with higher murder rates. Scientific American.com, May 23, 2001 [FULL TEXT] Technorati Tags: Scientific American
Scientific American, May 15, 2001 [FULL TEXT]
