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The UK government knew that the Bush administration wanted to tackle Saddam Hussein years before the invasion of Iraq, but knew it was “unlawful.”
Google has apologized for a racially offensive picture of Michelle Obama that appears when users search for images of the first lady.
Wikileaks is today releasing over half a million US national text pager intercepts from the 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The Large Hadron Collider has suddenly burst into life and started smashing proton beams together for the first time.
One of the more unexpected things you could hear from the mouth of a recent Nobel laureate is, “Look, I don’t want to see heroes around. I believe in a […]
As one of my professors used to joke, any field with the word “science” in its name is probably not a science. If you have to explain that what you’re […]
It’s no big surprise that the British Broadcasting System is ruling out putting their content behind a paywall. After all, the BBC receives $230 dollars a year in taxes from […]
“You know what the greatest talent in the world is?” asks the Hollywood bigshot in John Guare’s terrific play The House of Blue Leaves. “To be an audience. Anybody can […]
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Understanding the “caps” on the ends of chromosomes may soon translate to understanding cancer, lung diseases, and even normal aging.
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With President Obama having been awarded the Nobel Prize, biologist Carol Greider, a fellow 2009 laureate who waited 25 years to see her work honored, discusses whether he deserved to […]
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Nobel-winning biologist Carol Greider explains why scientists must be critics, not cheerleaders, of their own hypotheses.
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Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Carol Greider says the age of genetics is not around the corner—it has already arrived. The question now is what limits to set on change.
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What is telomerase? How was it identified? And why did the discovery take 25 years to win the Nobel? Biologist Carol Greider shares the inside story.
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Do good scientists aim for fixed goals or follow their curiosity? And do they ever worry that they’re barking up the wrong tree?
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Carol Greider, 2009 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, recounts how it felt to get the big call from Stockholm and predicts its future impact on her work.
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The Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist weighs in on gender discrimination in science and advises young women entering the profession.
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A conversation with the Johns Hopkins University molecular biologist and co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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A gnawing habit of sense-criticism and anxiety over authenticity keep the Nobel Prize winner up at night.
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Even the best among us fail and fail a lot. So why not drop the empty notion of heroism and use an accurate method for judging humans?
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The Nobel laureate explains why talk of Turkey joining the EU quickly faded away.