I just went and got vaccinated for the influenza A/H1N1/swine flu here at work. They're skipping schools and universities ahead of everyone else seeing as most of us here are young people who have no previous immunity to this particular type of...

It's yet another great Nobel season for biology! This year's Nobel prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath for the isolation and crystallization of ribosomes, and the elucidation of their structure...

It's that time of the year again! Today at 11.30 local time the 2009 Nobel prize in Medicine or Physiology will be announced. My favorite candidates for the past few years have been Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery...

Who wouldn't be completely smitten with this lovely little critter! The latest issue of Nature has published the description of what is billed as the oldest feathered dinosaur, Anchiornis huxleyi. It's adorable! Read more here and here. It's not...

A while ago Greg Laden (of the always readable Greg Laden's Blog) posted a list of "falsehoods": misunderstandings in biology that are so pervasive in common knowledge/the media/even schools, that you have to "un-learn" them before you understand the...