Microbiologist Rosie Redfield is trying to replicate that arsenic bacterium study in public, a blogging watershed. Yes, gene therapy for leukemia looks promising indeed, but the new small study awaits replication. Gay's end? Why same-sex marriage could eradicate homosexuality. Plus, get your Google+ invite here, Take 2.
Americans paid dearly for the space shuttle. Was the investment worth it? George Alexander, who covered the shuttle for the Los Angeles Times from the project's initiation in 1972 until 1985, reviews the evidence for and against that proposition. Excepted from the Summer 2011 ScienceWriters.
