Rowland Institute Library Blog

Anthony Iavarone and Joel Parks of Rowland’s Trapped Ion Dynamics lab
published a paper in Journal of the American Chemical Society on
gas-phase protein unfolding. 

The National Academies of Science announced 72 new members, including a
record 19 women. (Source: Chronicle of Higher Education)

and how Moore may have gotten the idea from Douglas Engelbart…. (Source: Science in the News)

Update (4/21/05): Lii.org points to an Intel compilation about Moore, including a link to his original “Moore’s Law” paper. 

Current Biology interviews Rowland’s Howard Berg on physics and biology and his work with the bacterial flagellar motor.  (Harvard link)

A New York Times article reports on the recovery of soft tissue from
recently discovered dinosaur remains which may contain proteins which
“might provide clues to the evolutionary relationship of dinosaurs to
other animals and possibly help solve the puzzle of dinosaur
physiology.”  See also a Wired News article.   The research was published in Science.  Follow this link for the research report (restricted to subscribers).  (Harvard users follow this link.)

“a surreptitious, prospective, cohort study to explore how often physicians nod off during scientific meetings and to examine risk factors for nodding off.” (Source: SOLOLIB-L)

Randy points to
Connotea, a service for scientists that enables sharing bookmarks of
articles and websites.  Evidently Nature Publishing Group is
behind it.  You can browse categories and the site features an RSS
feed.  (Source: the Sci-Tech Library Question)

PBS has started an online news magazine, Nova scienceNOW (not to be
confused with AAAS’ ScienceNow daily news update.)  The first
“issue” contains a story on hurricanes, among other topics, and
features video and interviews.  (Source: beSpacific)

“Wired News surveyed scientists around the country to find out what was on their wish lists.”