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Last week's decision by the US Supreme Court on the teaching of evolution is a splendid affirmation of the cause of reason, but that does not mean that nothing more will be heard of the creationists.
There has been an amusing demonstration that heavy objects may fall to the ground faster than lighter objects, but there is not yet much of a case for resuscitating Aristotle's physics.
Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica was first published 300 years ago. The book's impact was immediate, and its appearance marked the advent of modern science.
The development of immunoassays for ras and myc proteins allows rapid and sensitive quantitation of oncoprotein expression in normal and transformed cells.
Next week, scientists will converge upon Ljubljana, Yugoslavia for the FEES convention, and The Hague, the Netherlands for the XIII International Congress of Clinical Chemistry.