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...their corn to ethanol production, so U.S. soybean farmers are switching to corn, so Brazilian soybean farmers are expanding into cattle pastures, so Brazilian cattlemen are displaced to the Amazon. It's the remorseless economics of commodities markets. "The price of soybeans goes up," laments Sandro Menezes, a biologist with Conservation International in Brazil, "and the forest comes down...
...Analysis of hair has always been a good way of telling what's going on in the body that grew it, but now it's being used more creatively than ever by forensic scientists, such as James Ehleringer and Thure Cerling, two University of Utah professors. Ehleringer, a biologist, and Cerling, who studies geology, geophysics and biology, co-founded Isoforensics, Inc. three years ago. Their company uses stable isotope analysis of forensic substances to find slight variations in chemical elements' various isotopes. (Isotopes are forms of the same chemical element with different atomic weights...
...technology adviser, told the AAAS meeting, "our science and technology are eagerly sought after, even by countries that have lost respect for our culture and our politics." Every year State dispatches roughly 30 Science Diplomacy Fellows around the world for one or two years service. Alex Dehgan, an evolutionary biologist, was sent to redirect Iraqi weapons scientists to civilian research, while Jason Rao, a John Hopkins molecular biologist, did the same in Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan before moving to Pakistan, where he now tries to inculcate responsible research practices...
...before delving into his speech, the award-winning biologist had some choice words for his most high-profile Harvard opponent, whom he called “a deeply dishonest organism, if there ever was one,” and cast as an impediment to free discussion in the face of “sensitivities” about Israel...
Robert Trivers, the Rutgers biologist noted for his public spat with Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, made a Valentine’s Day visit to Cambridge yesterday. But it wasn’t candy hearts and flowers that he brought with...