I get to talk about an interesting application of carbon dioxide today in my latest article for Scientific American: sterilizing transplanted tissues such as tendon and bone. Before I heard about this technology, I certainly wouldn’t have suspected that the ubiquitous gas that we exhale could become a super-scrubber with a little heat and a…

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Daily blogging this month made for an excellent excuse to browse the 2009 Webby nominees and winners. The science nominees included Nature, Scientific American, and Wired Science. As a science journalist, these three are already on my regular web diet, so I didn’t feel the need to take a closer look. The Webby winner, NASA…