Right now a graduate course in statistics is taking up a lot of my time, so this quote seems only appropriate. ... it is not the business of science to discover 'truth', because 'truth' cannot be judged to be such, in any absolute way. To put it...

... On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published. A momentous day for humanity to commemorate, no question, and one of the reasons this year is celebrated worldwide as Darwin year, along with the bicentennial of his birth....

I just went and got vaccinated for the influenza A/H1N1/swine flu here at work. They're skipping schools and universities ahead of everyone else seeing as most of us here are young people who have no previous immunity to this particular type of...

It's yet another great Nobel season for biology! This year's Nobel prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath for the isolation and crystallization of ribosomes, and the elucidation of their structure...

It's that time of the year again! Today at 11.30 local time the 2009 Nobel prize in Medicine or Physiology will be announced. My favorite candidates for the past few years have been Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery...