Nature: Silicon highlights remaining questions over anthrax investigation
Nature discusses weaponization and silicon, but not much new yet.
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“But Jacobsen and others say the fact that the FBI has apparently failed to produce a powder to match the attack material suggests it must be very difficult to make.”
Or that the FBI is really incompetent. Which judging from their performance in the investigation seems to be the more likely hypothesis.