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...that's only the beginning of what Pusch and his colleagues found, working in a state-of-the-art lab funded by the Discovery Channel, which will present a two-part special based on the research starting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Malaria, Not Murder, Killed King Tut | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

Pierre Bordry's lab was broken into. To find out who did it, the head of France's antidoping agency filed a legal suit in November 2006. He claimed that someone hacked into the computers of his main laboratory, which was analyzing urine samples taken from American cyclist Floyd Landis that year. Those samples had already tested positive for testosterone doping; as a result, Landis was stripped of his Tour de France crown. But the hackers accessing the lab's computers falsified files linked to Landis' case. The altered data were then circulated as evidence that the lab's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Doping, Now Hacking: The Floyd Landis War | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...reason? A search in late 2006 by French investigators of the lab's compromised computers found a "Trojan horse" program that allowed the hackers to access and download files. Further investigations by French justice officials determined that the program probably got into the lab's system via an e-mail sent from an IP address allegedly traced to Landis' coach Arnie Baker - a physician who defended Landis by questioning the credibility of Bordry's lab. Judge Thomas Cassuto wants to question both Landis and Baker about the hacking. "These two men were convoked a first time by the judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Doping, Now Hacking: The Floyd Landis War | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...seems comparable to a semester in the U.S., but that could not be farther from the truth. I hear that attending college day-to-day feels like a chore, there are no term-time assignments (papers or problem sets in Harvard-speak), lecturers are disinterested and discrepancies in lab reports can be “fixed” by paying the friendly college peon. Skipping lectures is normal and students sometimes sign-in for their absent counterparts, a practice termed as “proxy.” I have heard horror stories of proxies being discovered resulting...

Author: By MADHURA NARAWANE | Title: Why I Chose Harvard | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

...turn, Christakis’ Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging will explore the relationship between social networks and health problems, including obesity and cancer. Christakis’ lab director Thomas Keegan said that the research is based upon the premise that knowledge alone is insufficient, and must be translated into action to yield positive change...

Author: By Nadia L. Farjood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professors Win Grants To Promote Quality of Life | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

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