Sunday, February 27, 2011

Week in science: don't fear the mosqorpion

Ten years on: why a complete human genome mattered: The completely sequenced human genome has just turned 10. The project has paid amazing dividends, but a lot of researchers resisted the idea when it was first proposed. Ars charts its politicized birth, silent adolescence, and triumphant maturity.

National security driving a Helium-3 shortage, hurting physics: Helium-3 is a rare isotope of the noble gas with applications in quantum physics, medical imaging, and nuclear threat detection. It's also now in very short supply. At the 2011 AAAS meeting, a panel discussed the effects the helium-3 shortage is having on these fields of science.

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