TWIS Archive

  • 08 July, 2010 – This Week in Science

    08 July, 2010 – This Week in Science

    Pretty Planck Pics, Sexy Ticking Clocks, Living Longer?, Need New Now, TWIS Decade in Review: Epigenetics, and Much More!

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  • Your Patience Is Requested…

    Your Patience Is Requested…

    ... while we get this new system running properly. There have been several challenges to getting this new site online. Not only have we built the site (thank you Arras for being a wonderful free WordPress theme!), but we have also changed hosting services.

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  • 01 July, 2010 – This Week in Science

    01 July, 2010 – This Week in Science

    Nature’s Speed Limit, Life Getting Older, Drinking Makes You Trackable, Quantum Fleas on Mt. Everest, Science of Happiness, Dental Discoveries, Kids On Walls, and Much, Much More…

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  • TWIS Book Club – July Book of the month

    TWIS Book Club – July Book of the month

    TWIS has picked ‘The Weather Makers’ by Tim Flannery as July’s book of the month. A logical discussion of humanity’s impact on the weather from a scientific perspective, this book is sure to be a conversation starter. Get your copy and read along with the club: You can talk with other readers at twisbookclub.ning.com… whatchya […]

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  • 28 June, 2010 – This Week in Science

    28 June, 2010 – This Week in Science

    Scientific Fields Entangled Biology and Physics merge as scientists try to explain the DNA double helix with quantum entanglement. Attack of the Long-Lasting Tomatoes Researchers used yeast genes to creat a transgenic tomato that delays decay for up to a week longer than what is currently normal. Bedtimes for the Japanese The Japanese government is […]

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  • 21 June, 2010 – This Week in Science

    21 June, 2010 – This Week in Science

    Celestial Tinker Toys, Kepler Vision, 3 Reasons To Save The Whales, TWiWorld Justin Domination, News Bites, and Interview with Joseph Jackson and Eri Gentry about Open Science.

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  • 07 June, 2010 – This Week in Science

    07 June, 2010 – This Week in Science

    Teeming Titan?, Insulated Earth?, Stupid Suicide, Weird Canadian Animals, Mini-Black Holes, Monkey-Cat Sighting?, Changing Constants And Bleeding Eyes, Life And Genetics, Ancient Carnivore Brains, and LOTS of Scott Sigler!!!

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  • 24 May, 2010 – This Week in Science

    24 May, 2010 – This Week in Science

    Build Your Own Bacteria Scientists have created a completely synthetic organism by copying the genome a certain species of bacteria, thereby paving the way for a new method of creating bacteria that will do specific tasks such as clean up oil spills. Poo Power Fuel from municipal sludge is now within a few cents of […]

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