Notes from the biomass

As a science publication, the journal Nature is held in highest regard; to me it shines even more for its science journalism, which is the focus of a new experiment. Somewhat modest in the light many activities at NPG and probably not entirely novel in publishing, the editors have selected three publications in journals outside the usual scope and the reader gets to select one of the topics to be investigated further. I have never heard of the journals before and one of the articles even seem to be a couple of months old but they all appear to be curious little stories, discovered by people who read more than the press releases. Last week’s story covers the genome of a giant bacterium and is freely accessible from what I can see. Let’s hope that there will always be a market that supports science journalism targeted at scientists rather than just a large crowd that wants to read hear about the latest cure for cancer.