A New Addition to Scientific American

The July 2007 copy of Scientific American boasts a new and unique section entitled Updates. This new section offers a brief follow up on some of the big breakthrough stories of previous issues. This is a neat way to keep the public informed about how a novel discovery develops over time and what can happen to it. The editor stated that it will also help to decrease public jadedness over an apparent lack of follow-through; that a major discovery has been announced but yet the status quo is maintained, e.i., no flying cars.

This column will help remind the public that scientific discoveries do not just get lost on the book shelf but are part of an ongoing narrative.

Check it out!

An Internal View of Cellular Processes

An excellent cgi video put together by Biovisions of Harvard University.



The following video contains a commentary about what is going on in the video.



Inner Life of the Cell animation conception and scientific content by Alain Viel and Robert A. Lue. Animation by John Liebler/XVIVO. Here is a link to their website: http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/