Ethanol and Biofuel Hype

There was a great letter about biofuels in this week’s issue of Science (Since it’s subscription only, I’m reproducing some of the letter at the bottom of this post). Additionally, a nifty paper pointing out that planting trees for reducing carbon emissions was more efficient than switching to biofuels, was in the same [...]

Nature Gets With the Program

Ok, this is progress: The journal Nature updated it’s mission statement:
Our 1869 mission statement is out of date.
The original mission statement of this journal, first printed in Nature’s second issue on 11 November 1869, was therefore running behind the times when it referred to “Scientific men” — even though, to be fair, the word ’scientist’ [...]