American scientists' share of scientific papers published in journals of the American Chemical Society have fallen from 64 percent in 1988 to 39 percent in 2005. I wasn't going to write about...
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Despite its descent into cliche, Moore's Law really is quite something. Last night my father and father-in-law were talking about how much cheaper memory gets every year. We were all comparing the...
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It's low-tech week here at Philoneist. I've noticed lately that my high-tech gadgets are having low-tech problems and that low-tech solutions easily solve high-tech social problems. Like...
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It's not a joke. It's synthetic biology, an emerging field that now offers biologists the ease of ordering "consumer-off-the-shelf" DNA sequences known to perform specific functions....
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by Eric Roston on November 13, 2006
My own instinct is not to acknowledge the phrase "intelligent designer" in any context other than university and industrial synthetic chemists. This sentiment only strengthens as time passes...
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Washington, DC, woke up not quite knowing itself this morning. There's plenty of analysis of the big picture everywhere, but what does this mean for the politics of science and tech? One loss was...
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