Single enzyme streamlines production of all four RNA building blocks

A single enzyme that can generate all four nucleoside triphosphates, the building blocks of ribonucleic acid (RNA), has been identified by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo. The study was ...
Science Daily

Laser-powered 'tweezers' reveal universal mechanism viruses use to package up DNA

Researchers have used laser-powered ‘optical tweezers’ to reveal a universal motor mechanism used by viruses for packaging their DNA into infectious particles. Researchers have used laser-powered ...
PBS

How science became a human right

Dec. 10 marks the anniversary of the 1948 signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Though contested, imperfect and ...
C&EN

Opinion: Nurturing ‘wild horses’ in science is a universal goal

Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, when appointed as director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1993, said, “Science as a culture is fundamentally chaotic, ought to be chaotic. And, of ...
The Conversation

Show your working: how the ‘open science’ movement tackles scientific misconduct

Danny Kingsley is a member of the National Open Science Taskforce, a Board member of FORCE11 (Future of Research Communications and eScholarship) and a member of the Royal Society Advisory Group on ...
insider.si.edu

Science, pseudo-science, and utopianism in early modern thought / edited by Stephen A. McKnight

Science and history : the birth of a new field ; The scientific revolution : a chemist's reappraisal / Allen G. Debus -- Alchemical death and resurrection : the significance of alchemy in the age of ...