DNA & Dung Beetles
Emily Graslie of The Brain Scoop (http://www.youtube.com/thebrainscoop) stands in for Hank in this week’s news to tell us about an effort to classify every organism on Earth, a fight amongst scientists about what happened in the 8th century, and a whole new look for your DNA. Oh, and some new information about dung beetles! Strap in for a ride through science!
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References
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6118/413
http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/01/08/mnras.sts378.full
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v491/n7426/full/nature11695.html
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(12)01507-2
http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nchem.1548.htmlThis is what I got to do this week! Be sure to watch it so you can hear me say ‘poop’.
Science news! Also a mention of Linnaeus; he was the man. He was the father of taxonomy, an under-rated but important area of science.
