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Discovered by a Washington, DC lawyer in search of antique furniture, this is truly a Cabinet of Wonders, for inside is the 1700-specimen personal collection of 19th Century British naturalist, field biologist and Charles Darwin contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace. Take a look!

Jeremy Schmutz, a faculty investigator at the Alabama-based HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and first author of the paper on the soybean genome sequence published in the January 14, 2010 issue of the journal Nature, discusses the project in this complement to the DOE Joint Genome Institute's news release (http://tr.im/Kiik).

IT-E3 (Information Technology - Engineering and Environmental Education Tools) is a program implemented at the University of California San Diego , now in its second year, aimed at helping bring information technology into middle school classrooms, specifically targeted at gathering environmental data. The goal is to get students interested in so called STEM careers (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.) The program does this by providing new and innovative technology tools to...

TIME DILATION: an experiment with mu-mesons This classic film documents an experiment done in 1963 the results of which can only be explained when one accepts the consequence that moving clocks run slow. This phenomenon is known as time dilation. The timekeeping device is the mu-meson, a subatomic particle with origins away from the Earth moving at relativistic speed. What follows here is an explanation of the experiment described in that film. Many mu-mesons rain down every hour on the...