The LCROSS mission is a search for water on the moon. The LCROSS mission is going to do this by sending a rocket crashing into the moon causing a big impact and creating a crater, throwing tons of debris and potentially water ice and vapor above the lunar surface. This impact will release materials from the lunar surface that will be analyzed for the presence of hydrated minerals which would tell researchers if water is there or not — NASA

The Journal of Effective Teaching, a peer reviewed electronic journal devoted to the discussion of teaching excellence in colleges and universities. The new issue of this journal dealing with teaching evolution is currently online .
Here are the contents :
CONTENTS
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief:: Origins ………………. 1-3
Russell L. Herman HTML, PDF
ARTICLES
The Influence of Religion and High School Biology Courses on Students’ Knowledge of Evolution
When They Enter College ………. 4-12
Randy Moore, Sehoya Cotner, and Alex Bates Abstract, HTML, PDF

A team of IBM Researchers is exploring new and innovative ways to quickly read human DNA at a low cost — an advancement that can lead to important breakthroughs in health condition diagnosis and treatment.
The scientists are designing a “DNA Transistor” which is created by using an electron beam to make a nanometer-sized opening in a microchip, called a nanopore, to read DNA Molecules. With this IBM joins the Next generation sequencing race in a bid to achieve the dream of $1,000 genome.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; and Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”.

The ribosome translates the DNA code into life
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 awards studies of one of life’s core processes: the ribosome’s translation of DNA information into life. Ribosomes produce proteins, …

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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for the discovery of “how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to three scientists who have solved a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation. The Nobel Laureates have shown that …

A short and nice video about evo devo @ scientific American