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Let’s Get Vertical: City buildings offer opportunities for farms to grow up instead of out
Dead — but not duds: White dwarfs shed light on physics and the fate of the cosmos
The Science Vote: Science News runs down what the two presidential candidates and their campaigns have been saying about science and technology issues.
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Saturn's rings may not be as young as they look

Saturn's rings might be more massive, and thus older, than researchers had believed.
Found in: Astronomy, Atom & Cosmos and Planetary Science
Science & the Public: McCain Is Bullish on R&D

Featured blog: John McCain weighs in on science and technology issues with long-awaited written responses to the Science Debate 2008.
Found in: Astronomy, Climate Change, Computers, Environment, Matter & Energy, Science & Society and Technology
Last Call

The final mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, set for early October, could radically transform the observatory, but the crew faces some special challenges
Found in: Astronomy, Atom & Cosmos and Technology
Comment: Preserving digital data for the future of eScience

From the August 30, 2008 issue of Science News
Found in: Astronomy, Computers, Science & Society and Technology
Greeks followed a celestial Olympics

A Greek gadget discovered more than a century ago in a 2,100-year-old shipwreck not only tracked the motion of heavenly bodies and predicted eclipses, but also functioned as a sophisticated calendar and mapped the four-year cycle of the ancient Greek Olympics.
Found in: Archaeology, Astronomy and Science & Society
Science & the Public: Citizen Astronomy

Astronomers have found big benefits from recruiting the public to lend their eyes and image-processing prowess
Found in: Astronomy, Atom & Cosmos and Science & Society
Too much information in the Odyssey

A controversial interpretation of passages from the Odyssey suggests that Homer knew much more about planetary motions than historians thought possible.
Found in: Astronomy and Science & Society
Science & the Public: Galaxy Zoo's blue mystery (part 2)

Featured blog: The enigmatic "Voorwerp" may be a dwarf galaxy lit by the ghostly echoes of a long-gone quasar.
Found in: Astronomy, Atom & Cosmos and Science & Society
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Blogs:

Science & the Public By Janet Raloff Oct 3rd 2008

Columns:

Math Trek By Julie Rehmeyer
The U.S. News &World Report rankings of colleges and universities are largely arbitrary, according to a new mathematical analysis. Oct 3rd 2008

Comment By Guest Columnists
From the October 11, 2008 issue of Science News Sep 26th 2008

SN Bookshelf:

Book Review: Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller
Review by Heather Benjamin
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