20060330
More Human Than Human
Fox News
     The ability to interface biological material with electronic material is the first step toward being able to use such systems in human beings for a variety of purposes, from the correction of all sorts of physical disorders to making more efficient interfaces for the technology we use everyday.
     The same [...]

20060220
Fox News
     The state of Maryland is debating legislation that could require new guidelines to combat the growing rate of fatal infections contracted from hospitals. The article is interesting because it brings to light once again a problem that has been growing for some time: is the current way we practice medicine adequate?
     There are [...]

20060207
Fox News
     Just when we think we know everything, another scientific expedition comes along and proves how much we have yet to learn. In this case, the expedition was a biological exploration of the deep jungle of the remote Papua province of Indonesia. The expedition discovered multiple instances of what appear to be new species [...]

20060113
Fox News
          Apparently researchers with not a lot else to do (like trying to invent cars that run on cow dung (see #3), perhaps) discovered that at least one species of ant trains uneducated ant-lings how to hunt for food. While this piece of information is at least mildly interesting, I am not sure what [...]

20060110
The Scotsman
        It turns out that the stem cell research release by the South Korean biologist Hwang Woo-Suk was entirely forged. It was all fraudulent. None of it was true.
         As I have previously posted on the subject, acts like this in the scientific world make one wonder how much other ‘science’ has also been falsified, [...]