Revolutionary ideas come round again

Revolutionary Ideas for Radio Regulation

Radio technology seems destined to become part of the standard micro-processor input/output system. But unlike for memory or display systems, for radio systems government regulation matters a lot. Much discussion of radio regulation has focused on narrow spectrum management and interference issues. Reflecting on historical experience and centuries of conversation about fundamental political cho...

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Evolution: Have Wings Come, Gone and Come Again?

Can complex traits be re-evolved by lineages that have lost them? Phylogenetic study now suggests that wings may indeed have reappeared several times within the ancestrally wingless stick insects.

Will ye no come back again?

Single gene disorders come into focus - again

In the early 1990s, when the second 5-year plan for the Human Genome Project-which requested more money than any previous research project in biology-was written, common disorders were presented as the future target of genome research. This was a clever move to ensure continued public support for this endeavor, which had been justified previously by the prospect that it would lead to the diagno...