Good DNA is an attribute we assign to people who are especially attractive, healthy, or old. At least we’ve been saying that since April 25, 1953, when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin announced their discovery of the structure of the building blocks of all life, making today INTERNATIONAL DNA DAY! Deoxyribonucleic acid …
Once again science informs us that we are part caveman, specifically Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis. That’s the scientific name for Neanderthal man, our genetic cousins with whom we shared the planet until they all bit the dust around 25 or 30,000 years ago. These people roamed the Earth for about half a million years, a heck …
Sammy Science back in the house, readers, ready to talk science. At least, that’s the whole idea of this web forum. I’m the scientist, you’re the readers, you write e-mails about science and I answer them as best I can. What I don’t know I find out from experts. It’s not a new idea and …
It’s me, Jimmy, The Blogging Dog, also known as The Canine Einstein, a nickname I sure didn’t make up but was given to me by the scientists who studied me for a year until I bolted. Not that I escaped or anything so dramatic, since doorknobs are just as effective as prison bars to someone …
