Stories by JR Minkel

News Bytes of the Week—First glimpse of SpaceShipTwo

Creationist sells mastodon fossil, Monster space roaches and more…

Elusive Pancreas-Healing Cells Discovered

Mouse finding hints that stemlike cells may yet be found in human pancreas

News Bytes of the Week--Using bytes to understand barks

Plus: spying on employees, avoiding car wrecks, artificially grown rat hearts, send in the clones and more ...

Potent Alternative

Reverse-engineered human stem cells may leapfrog the embryonic kind

Tumor Time Bombs Set Off by Stem Cells

Deadly call and response recruits stem cells to nourish ticking tumors

Embryos Survive Stem Cell Harvest

Breakthrough could overcome key obstacle to embryonic stem cell research

News Byte: Holy crap--protons make worms poop!

Researchers studying the nematode worm C. elegans have discovered a new mechanism by which the millimeter-long critter flexes its pooping muscles. It's protons!

For Remote-Control Cells, Just Add Magnets

Magnetic particles turn cell signals on and off

News Bytes of the Week—Airline safety data down in flames

The end of continental drift, U.K. chokes on its own vomit and more…

News Bytes of the Week—Bell tolls for 100-watt light bulb

Why monkey sex is loud, The Wii is not exercise and more…

Credit Due: Was Sir Fred Hoyle Foiled--By Himself?

A colleague of the late Sir Fred Hoyle says his friend never got his due for explaining how the universe got its elements

Closest Whale Cousin—A Fox-Size Deer?

Researchers split on closest evolutionary kin to whales and dolphins

Martian Meteorite Harbors Life's Building Blocks

Organic molecules inside space rock were probably the result of plain old chemistry

Food for Symbolic Thought

Besides the first seafood dinner, signs of the earliest symbolic thought

News Bytes of the Week—Why pregnant women don't tip over

Arctic ice fading faster, Italian doctors get naked and more…

Hyperactive kid? Maybe it's the food coloring

A Qubit Bus

News Bytes of the Week—Send away for your personal genome

U.N wants U.S. and China to be "more constructive" on environment, babies finger a perp and more…

Human Stem Cell Breakthrough: No Embryos Required

Gene cocktails rewire human skin tissue into all-purpose stem cells

News Bytes of the Week—The Hydrogen–Bacterial Economy

HIV trial unblinded, U.N. just says "no" to clones and more…