Seed: Science is Culture

Articles

• The Week in Science 12/23-12/29
  Hwang is out, Shell Oil is in trouble and 2005 gets an extra second.
• Year in Science: Issues
  The science stories of 2005 that sparked our best conversations, wildest speculations and most passionate debates.
• Year in Science: Ideas
  Seed presents the ten most revelatory experiments, findings, discoveries and proofs of the year. Welcome to the new scientific renaissance.
• Year in Science: Icons
  Introducing 15 people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005.
• New & Notable: 12/17 - 12/23
  South Korean censorship, the choice between voting or dying and those darn teaspoons that keep disappearing.

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• The Year in Science 2005
  36 Ideas, Issues & Icons That Changed Our World
• Panel Declares Research Fake
  Hwang resigns from university after panel's preliminary conclusion.
• Power to the People?
  Over one quarter of North Americans and Europeans think science policy decisions should be based on the views of the public, not experts.
• An Environmentalist's Christmas Carol
  Senate forces removal of defense bill provision that would have allowed drilling in Alaskan northeast.
• The Week in Science: 12/16-12/22
  The battle over evolution in Dover ends, the climate change argument intensifies and the Hwang Woo-suk saga continues.
• Mental Time Travel
  Researchers find that memory consists of recreating past brain states.
• Keeping Control
  The University of California retains control of Los Alamos National Lab.
• Do Bacteria Dance?
  Model shows synchronized movement of bacteria result of fluid mechanics not behavior.
• Mars Attack!
  A swarm of tennis ball-sized robots could be the key to discovering the Red Planet's nooks and crannies.
• Evolution Wins in Dover
  Judge Jones comes down hard on the side of teaching evolution, not intelligent design.
• Why'd They Die?
  Massive survey will identify the cause of death for over one million Indians.
• Wiped from the Earth
  A new map highlights habitats where extinctions are imminent and the 800 species poised to vanish.
• Heeding Cassandra
  Chris Mooney reports on the ignored warnings of scientists and engineers prior to Hurricane Katrina.
• The Electric Slide
  Experimentally-inspired theorists describe electron choreography in a hydrogen molecule.
• New & Notable: 12/10 - 12/16
  A long, hard, sensitive organ, big balls, Virgin, and Buffy.