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Mendel’s Genetics
The Mendel Museum of Genetics in the Czech Republic offers a well-illustrated online exhibition devoted to Gregor Mendel’s life and work. Pages are devoted to such topics as the mathematics of inheritance and Mendel’s genetics garden. Genetics-inspired artworks are featured in the gallery of contemporary art. Go to: http://www.mendel-museum.org/eng/1online/
- Chemistry
Oxidized plutonium reaches a higher state
A new understanding of the basic chemistry of plutonium could affect the way nuclear waste is stored.
- Physics
Old data yield new signs of extra force
Several experimental findings that conflict with predictions of the prevailing standard model of particle physics suggest that nature may include another force beyond the four known ones.
