The whiff of danger

A whiff of home

the highest impact factor unhealthy. I once met a scientist who could recite impact factors to the third decimal point, which is not even statistically significant. Come to think about it, an impact factor is only an average, so why doesn't it come with standard deviation? How can journal X claim that it has the highest impact factor in a given field without demonstrating the difference with th...

Getting a Whiff of Speciation by Reinforcement

"A whiff, or a jab?

Epigenetics: A new whiff of monoallelic expression

Odorant receptor genes reveal a new case of monoallelic expression: just one allele of one of the large number of receptor genes appears to be transcribed in a given sensory neuron.

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...