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The transcript of this podcast wil be posted in two to three weeks. Wake Forest University School of Medicine neuroscientist Dwayne Godwin talks about the the Winston-Salem area's adoption of biomedical research, as well as meetings with Congress about science funding and his comic strip contributions to Scientific American Mind. [More]

Keck Graduate Institute will host a public workshop on the impact that personalized medicine will have on life science companies, physicians, patients, and others on October 19, 2009.

Enter to win the contenders for the 2009 Royal Society science books prize

Tim Radford reviews the books on this year's shortlist and there's a chance for two lucky readers to win a copy of all the booksSix books are shortlisted for this year's Royal Society Science Book Prize. The winner will be announced on 15 September. For a chance to win a copy of all six books enter the Guardian's competition, which closes at midnight on 18 September.What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life by Avery Gilbert (Crown $23.95) Can humans detect 30,000 different kinds of smell? Nobody knows. Most such figures are plucked from the air. Smell - a volatile molecule interacting with a sensor up your nostril - is a subjective thing: subject to suggestion, not least because the brain does the interpretation. There is a condition called parosmia in which all smells are horrid; another called anosmia in which there is no smell. More than 300 volatiles waft from the piggery but only four molecules account for most of the swinish aroma. Corpses smell sweet as they liq

Tim Radford reviews the books on this year's shortlist and there's a chance for two lucky readers to win copies of all the booksSix books are shortlisted for this year's Royal Society Science Book Prize. The winner will be announced on 15 September. For a chance to win a copy of all six books enter the Guardian's competition, which closes at midnight on 18 September.What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life by Avery Gilbert (Crown $23.95) Can humans detect 30,000 different kinds of smell? Nobody knows. Most such figures are plucked from the air. Smell - a volatile molecule interacting with a sensor up your nostril - is a subjective thing: subject to suggestion, not least because the brain does the interpretation. There is a condition called parosmia in which all smells are horrid; another called anosmia in which there is no smell. More than 300 volatiles waft from the piggery but only four molecules account for most of the swinish aroma. Corpses smell sweet as they liq

Enter to win all the contenders for the 2009 Royal Society science books prize

Lemon sharks in the waters around the Bahamas stay close to their birthplace as they mature, a recent study has revealed. Previously, little was known about the movements of the sharks after they reached 3 years of age. Scientists were uncertain whether they dispersed into new territory as they matured or if they remained close to their nursery sites. But these new findings reveal that more than half of the juvenile lemon sharks sampled were born in local shark nurseries. The long-term study was conducted by scientists from the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, University of Miami, and Field Museum of Chicago. From 1995 to 2007, the researchers sampled sharks in Bimini, Bahamas, a cluster of subtropical islands on the western edge of the Great Bahamas Bank, about 86 kilometers east of Miami. The two largest of the islands in the area, North Bimini and South Bimini, form an arch of land that shelters a shallow, mangrove-fringed lagoon. There are seve

From the highest mountains to biology's own Everest—the brain—Reichardt tackles the biggest challenges of climbing and biology.

The burgeoning research fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology are commonly thought to be highly multidisciplinary because they draw on many areas of science and technology to make important advances.