Berkeley’s
Alex
Filippenko on The Accelerating Universe
Nov/Dec 2007 Two
research teams who discovered that the expansion of the universe
is accelerating have scooped the $500,000...
Columbia’s
Jeffrey
Lieberman Takes On Schizophrenia
Sep/Oct 2007
Schizophrenia is the prototypic mental illness of our time. The
condition affects one percent of the population, yet...
Yale’s
Josephine
Hoh: An Eye for Disease Genes
Jul/Aug 2007 At the
center of the retina is a circular area of yellow photoreceptor
cells that play the critical role in our...
HRI’s
Ashoke Sen
Surveys the Current Landscape of String Theory
May/Jun 2007 It took
string theory 23 controversial years and two revolutions to get
where it is today, and the question still remains...
MPI’s
Matthias Mann on Mass Spectrometry in Biochemistry
Mar/Apr 2007 When
molecular biologists recently raised their sights from genes to
proteins, from decoding entire genomes to...
Penn’s
Virginia M.-Y. Lee on Neurodegenerative Disease Jan/Feb
2007 The diseases are different, but the pathologies are surprisingly similar. At the pathological...
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