News Bytes of the Week—First glimpse of SpaceShipTwo
Creationist sells mastodon fossil, Monster space roaches and more…
Stories by JR Minkel
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
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…
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…
