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Water At California Beaches Cleanest In Years
sfgate.com 3 days, 2 hours agoDry weather and stricter regulations have boosted water quality at Bay Area beaches to their cleanest level in years, a report released Thursday found. Nearly every beach in the Bay Area, and throughout the state, had...
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Turning DNA Into A Hard Drive
latimes.com 2 days, 11 hours agoStanford's Drew Endy and his lab figured out a way to turn DNA into a rewriteable data storage device that can operate within a cell.Silicon-based computers are fine for typing term papers and surfing the Web, but scientists want to make devices that can work on a far smaller scale, recording data within individual cells. One way to do that is to create a microscopic hard drive out of DNA, the molecule that already stores the genetic blueprints of all living things.










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