When the Australian patent office granted a patent in the year 2001 to Mr. John Keogh for inventing the wheel (an action for which they shared an Ig Nobel Prize), little acknowledgment was given to the several animals who regularly reinvent themselves a wheels. One of those animals is celebrated in a new study: “Wind-Powered […]
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Wrong-handed in Nature, he says
A letter in the Sept 22, 2010 issue of Nature magazine begins: DNA dealt wrong hand on cover Michael Eisen Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, Berkeley It could not escape my notice that your cover of 9 September (Nature 467, issue 7312; 2010) is dominated by a DNA molecule with a pronounced left-handed […]