Dr Craig Venter says in the Science journal that his team successfully transplanted an entire genome from one bacterium cell to another. picked by kxmk 2 years ago

Think you know a thing or two about science? Take our short quiz to determine if you'd pass an 8th grade science test. picked by 2longdogs 2 years ago

It was a good year for Wired Science, and we have our readers to thank for that. So, for the dual purposes of thanking you and patting ourselves on the back, here is a list of our most read stories of 2008 (and a couple we think should have been). picked by cactushair 11 months ago

Do you know you can Hypnotize Chickens, you can have an erection once dead?...Stuff you may not have known about science and some of the crazy things you can do, things your body is capable of doing that you may not have known. picked by cjmei 3 years ago

A fellow Plimate, Snocrash, has a website called Homebrewed Science that you might find interesting.
It is a new community that encourages discussion and experimentation on science projects you can do at home. Read it for enjoyment, read it for education, check it out today. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

On the 28 June, The Science Education Act was passed as law in the State of Louisiana. This piece of legislature now allows teachers in this US state to present non-scientific alternatives to evolution, global warming and cloning – including ideas related to intelligent design. Opponents fear that Louisiana teachers are now free to present evolution and other targeted topics as matters of de... read full post picked by bingo 1 year ago

Some of Bush's policies held value which was debatable. One that didn't was his administration's disdain for science. Obama's promise to bring back science to its rightful place was music to many ears. Many feel that science should be placed on a pedestal. But why? What is it about science that is so important? It isn't just what nifty gadgets it can provide. picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago

Sure there are kids that don't take the science fair seriously and end up feeding Mountain Dew to a plant for 30 days to see what happens (yay science!), but there are also kids that go well above and beyond. Here are 10 that won with extremely brainy projects that have real world applications. picked by bingo 8 months ago

They call it resuscitation science. It's a new area of research at the University of Pennsylvania, where a Center for Resuscitation Science opened less than a year ago, and where the line between life and death is shifting. picked by deepchill 2 years ago

The Human Genome Project revealed that only a small fraction of the 3 billion “letter” DNA code actually instructs cells to manufacture proteins, the workhorses of most life processes. This has raised the question of what the remaining part of the human genome does. How much of the rest performs other biological functions, and how much is merely residue of prior genetic events? Evolut... read full post picked by Blankspace73 2 years ago

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn have detected for the first time a molecule closely related to an amino acid: amino acetonitrile. The organic molecule was found with a 30 metre radio telescope in Spain and two radio interferometers in France and Australia in the "Large Molecule Heimat", a giant gas cloud near the galactic centre in the conste... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Here at Wired Science, we love volcanoes — so we decided to use the Tongan eruption to round up some of our favorite volcano eruption pics and present them as big. picked by iamamaniac 8 months ago

An amino acid, one of the essential ingredients to life on Earth, has been found in a comet for the first time, NASA announced Monday. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago

I knew some of these couldn't be true. picked by Mershaullk 3 years ago

An international team of scientists has reconstructed about two-thirds of the genome of the woolly mammoth using DNA extracted from balls of hair, the first time this has been accomplished for an extinct species. picked by suebe 1 year ago

The 2007 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting concluded in Boston on November 30. This was the first time that the popular Science as Art competition was held at an MRS Fall Meeting. Three first place and three second place winners were selected from the various entries. Some of the images are from the nanotechnology domain but most are micro-scale. picked by leopoldogolba 2 years ago

The science textbook Atomics for the Millions was written by Dr. Maxwell Leigh Eidenoff, co-authored by Hyman Ruchlis, a science teacher at Brooklyn’s Lafayette High School. One of Ruchlis' students was Maurice Sendak, and he offered Sendak $100 and a passing grade to illustrate the textbook. picked by suebe 8 months ago

India's prime minister Manmohan Singh has announced unprecedented funding for science education and research, saying it is a top priority for his government. He has announced a range of schemes to attract students and replenish government agencies' shrinking pool of scientific personnel. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Presidential candidates answers to the top 14 science questions facing America. First up is Obama's answers. McCain's to follow. Also check out the rest of the site picked by bernardblack 1 year ago

The original Human Genome Project mapped the DNA from one person and took 13 years to complete. Today the 1000 Genome Project was announced - a plan to map the differences between individual humans that will give an insight into the physiological differences between us, and genetic diseases too. It is expected to take 3 years. picked by Pocksucket 2 years ago