March 2006
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Week in Science: 3/24 - 3/30
An eclipse blocks out the sun, Britain gets a new set of emissions targets and a Texas biotech company has big ambitions for horse cloning.
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Can Architecture Shape Science?
A new crop of science centers designed by architects tackle the task of reinventing the laboratory.
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Ethanol's New Cheap Trick
A new method for ethanol production could make it a more viable alternative fuel.
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 3/31/2006
Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors at Seed.
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Springing Back
The beginning of the warm season is coming sooner than expected and could throw off ecological harmony.
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Architecture's Scientific Revolution
Seed presents five examples of contemporary architecture that have been influenced by science.
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 3/30/2006
Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors at Seed.
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Oxygen and the Growth of Complex Organisms
Prior to two billion years ago, oxygen wasn't as necessary for life to exist as it is now.
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Teaching the Tobacco Controversy
Thank You For Smoking provides a gentle critique of sponsored science and a few good belly laughs.
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 3/29/2006
Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors at Seed.
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A False Tolerance for Red Bull
Although it goes down easier and feels smoother, combining energy drinks with alcohol will get you just as intoxicated.
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Better Than Sex
Eclipse chasers are paying big money for four minutes of ecstasy.
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Aiming for Ecology and Economic Prosperity
The World Wildlife Fund sets out to preserve habitats and create economic growth at the same time.
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 3/28/2006
Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors at Seed.
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New & Notable: 3/17 - 3/23
Deep sleep my save us from extinction, pretty birds can fight off avian flu, cheese could be an alternative source of ethanol.
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Junk (DNA) in the Trunk
Researchers devise a new method for determining the purpose of "junk DNA."
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DNA in Space
Astronomers spy a strand of genetic code in the cosmos.
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Prime Numbers Get Hitched
In their search for patterns, mathematicians have uncovered unlikely connections between prime numbers and quantum physics. Will the subatomic world help reveal the elusive nature of the primes?
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 3/27/2006
Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors at Seed.
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Week in Science: 3/17 - 3/23
Why avian flu hasn't become a pandemic, where the sun will be hiding out and whatever happened to Hwang Woo-suk?