Britney Spears’ younger sister Jamie Lynn has sparked rumors of a reunion with her high school sweetheart — Casey Aldridge — after the young parents were spotted attending a Lady Gaga concert together in Los Angeles last week. “(They) are working on things between them,” a snoop tells PEOPLE.The previously-engaged Spears and Aldridge, who welcomed [...]
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Space: Feathering the Falcon’s nest
June 10th, 2010 |
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Falcon 9, a private space rocket that might eventually carry people into orbit, has just passed its first test
ELON MUSK is not, to paraphrase James Watson’s bon mot about Francis Crick, a man given to modest moods. That is a useful quality in an entrepreneur whom financial nemesis has, on occasion, stared in the face. But this week, though he is by his own admission relying on loans from his friends to cover his day-to-day expenses while details of his divorce are worked out, he might be forgiven a little hubris.
The co-founder of PayPal, and developer of the Tesla, the first modern electric sports car, has long wanted to get into the space business as well. Now he has. The launch into orbit from Cape Canaveral, on June 4th, of a test capsule carried by a Falcon 9 rocket built by his company SpaceX, is a turning-point in the development of private space flight. Though the industry’s coming of age is still some way in the future, this launch marks its transition from childhood to adolescence. …
Jamie Lynn Spears Moving Back To Los Angeles To Live With Sister Britney
March 15th, 2010 |
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Teen mom Jamie Lynn Spears is leaving Louisiana — and her older boyfriend — to move back to Los Angeles, where she’ll live with her famous sister, Britney Spears, in a bid to jumpstart her stalled acting career.
The move is being spearheaded by Jamie Lynn & Britney’s mom, Lynne, who is determined to separate [...]
Jamie Lynn Spears Bracing For Custody Battle With Casey Aldridge
March 4th, 2010 |
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Jamie Lynn Spears is bracing for a custody battle royale with former sweetheart Casey Aldridge. Spears called it quits with Aldridge — the father of her 20-month-old daughter Maddie Briann — earlier this year. She’s now dating Louisiana businessman James Watson, who is 10 years her senior. But the teen mom is worried about a [...]
The rise of epigenomics: Methylated spirits
October 15th, 2009 |
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The human genome gets more and more complicated
IT WAS, James Watson claimed, something even a monkey could do. Sequencing the human genome, that is. In truth, Dr Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helical structure of DNA back in the 1950s, had a point. Though a technical tour-de-force, the Human Genome Project was actually the sum of millions of small, repetitive actions by cleverly programmed robots. When it was complete, so the story went, humanity’s genes—the DNA code for all human proteins—would be laid bare and all would be light.
It didn’t quite work out like that. Knowing the protein-coding genes has been useful. It has provided a lexicon of proteins, including many previously unknown ones. What is needed, though, is a proper dictionary—an explanation of what the proteins mean as well as what they are. For that, you need to know how the genes’ activities are regulated in the 220 or so different types of cell a human body is made from. And that is the purpose of the American government’s Roadmap Epigenome Programme, results from which are published this week in Nature by Ryan Lister and Mattia Pelizzola of the Salk Institute in California, and their colleagues. …