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The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Harvard's Jack Szostak, Johns Hopkins's Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn at U.C. San Francisco for their work on how chromosomes are protect...

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Godwin: Well it's an exciting new opportunity for me. I'm a practicing neuroscientist and it was a challenge that was very attractive to try to put one of the most complex things in the universe into ...

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Berenbaum: Well, back in February, the results of [the] microarray analysis, we knew that we were seeing these potentially broken ribosomes in the bees afflicted with colony collapse disorder. Steve:...

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Mariette: One of the [amazing] things about science isn't it, how one thing leads to another, the famous "shoulder of giants" response. Steve: It was Newton who said, "If I can see farther, it's beca...

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Steve: You bring up something that I've been meaning to get into for a long time and that is that science fiction features a lot of interspecies relationships. Berenbaum: I don't know what that says ...

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Berenbaum: Honeybees, everybody thinks eats honey and pollen, but in reality they feed their grub something called bee bread, which is a mixture of honey and pollen packed into cells, and it cures or ...

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It was called Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus. it's only been known since 2004; it was described in Israel. But it wasn't quite right. It's called Paralysis Virus because the bees are paralyzed, but the...

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Berenbaum: The organizer[s] asked if I would talk about an entomological mystery and how entomologists and other scientists go around solving mysteries; and specifically this mysterious disappearance ...