Social science gets its day

Turning nutrition on its head--Noakes gets his day.

Science Networking Gets Serious

A new breed of networking applications offers scientists much more than typical social networking sites, but how useful are they? Amy Maxmen reports.

Science Policy in Its Social Context

Public support of science is justified by three primary instrumental rationales: scientific advance is necessary to create new wealth; scientific advance is necessary to solve particular societal problems; and scientific advance provides the information necessary for making effective decisions. Significant and persistent disparities between promise and performance accompany each of these ration...

How Hair Gets Its Pigment

Mutations in the transcription factor Foxn1 cause the nude phenotype in mice, which is characterized by a lack of visible hair. New work by Weiner et al. (2007) in this issue of Cell now shows that Foxn1 also contributes to hair color by marking which cells are to receive pigment from melanocytes.

Healy recall petition gets 600 names on first day

A group o f students has collected in one day approxim ately 600 signatures, more than half the num ­ ber needed, on a pe tition to recall Student Body President B ill Healy and Vice President Duane Lawrence, said B ill Krais, a co spokesman for the group The group, num bering ap­ proxim ate ly 50 students, circulated the pe tition titled "A Real Begin­ ning" yesterday in dorms, the din ing hal...