Tropical climates are famously rich in biodiversity, perhaps because old lineages persist well in those regions instead of being simply replaced by new ones, or perhaps because the tropical environment promotes fast speciation. A new …
Read the full story »Overwhelmed drug regulators seek cure in cooperation
I have the lead news story in Nature Medicine this month, on how medical regulators are joining forces to keep up with their duties [html] [pdf]:
Regulatory authorities such as the US Food and Drug …
Miniature Art Masters
I had a Random Sample about using microbes to restore artwork in Science Magazine: [html] or [pdf] and below…
Microbiologist Rosa María Montes Estellés once infected a church mural with bacteria. But it was for a …
Spain’s ship comes in
Here’s my overview story about the Malaspina expedition for Nature’s news section. See the original at Nature’s website [html] or as it appeared in print: [pdf].
In the age of networked buoys and remote-sensing satellites, a …
How To Avoid Retirement
In Japan late last year I met a professor who moved to Tokyo to avoid mandatory retirement at his institute in Kyoto. My story about how to stay in academia past your nominal retirement date …
