Hurricane Katrina Imagery

Digital Globe has a collection of Hurricane Katrina images that shows an aerial view of the devastation.

Chimpanzee joins the genome club

" Geneticists have finished reading one of the most important volumes in the library of life: the DNA of the chimpanzee. Decoding the sequence of our comrade in apehood may help to answer the age-old question of what makes us human. "

The NYT covered the story today with In Chimpanzee DNA, Signs of Y Chromosome's Evolution.

See the assembled Pan troglodytes (chimpanzee) genome at the Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Genome Resources