All Stories
- Earth
Less sea ice brings more snow
A melting Arctic shifts atmospheric patterns across much of the Northern Hemisphere, causing severe weather elsewhere.
- Life
Brain cells know which way you’ll bet
Activity of nerve cells in a key brain structure reveals how people will bet in a card game.
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- Life
Eggs may be made throughout adulthood
The discovery of stem cells in human ovaries suggests that women are not born with a lifetime’s supply of gametes.
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EPA moves to phase out asbestos goods
Everyday places where asbestos can still be found.
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Letters
Sinking heavy ice The picture in “From the Archive” (“Self-experimenter didn’t suffer,” SN: 1/28/12, p. 32) shows heavy water ice sinking in a glass of water while alongside, light water ice floats. What is not clear is what kind of water is in the glasses. If heavy water ice were in a glass of heavy […]
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SN Online
ON THE SCENE BLOG Science can’t hear back in time. Read more in “Archaeoacoustics: Tantalizing, but fantastical.” Courtesy of Hagen Wende and Carmen Birchmeier GENES & CELLS An eye protein helps mice and people sense vibrations. See “Seeing, feeling have something in common.” LIFE Early fliers may have had dark feathers. Read “Archaeopteryx wore black.” […]
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Science Future for March 10, 2012
March 30–31 Meet astronaut Richard Linnehan and Nobel winners at the Texas A&M Physics and Engineering Festival in College Station. See bit.ly/SNtamu March 31 See glowing creatures at a bioluminescence exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Learn more at bit.ly/SNbiolum
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Science Past from the issue of March 10, 1962
KENNEDY URGES BETTER PAY — President John F. Kennedy’s proposal to raise the pay scale for top Government employees should help stem the flow of scientists and engineers now leaving public service for much higher pay in industry…. The top Government salary under most scales is $18,500 a year. Many top positions are not filled […]
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Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
Attempts to wipe out diseases such as malaria come with a cost, this history of eradication campaigns shows. Cornell Univ., 2011, 309 p., $39.95
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Riddle of the Feathered Dragons: Hidden Birds of China by Alan Feduccia
An evolutionary biologist reviews fossil evidence for bird and dinosaur evolution and contests the view that birds are the last living dinosaurs. Yale Univ., 2012, 358 p., $55
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African American Women Chemists by Jeannette Brown
A chemist sketches the lives of women who broke racial boundaries, including Marie Maynard Daly, the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1947. Oxford Univ., 2012, 272 p., $35
