All Stories
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DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World by David Kinkela
Science and politics collide in this history of one of the world’s most controversial pesticides. Univ. of North Carolina, 2011, 272 p., $39.95
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 by Mircea Pitici, ed.
This anthology offers an overview of stories written for a popular audience about the mysteries and everyday uses of math. Princeton Univ., 2012, 414 p., $19.95
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BOOK REVIEW: Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch
Review by Laura Sanders.
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Mix and Match Qubits
Hybrid strategy may yield long-awaited quantum computers.
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- Physics
Loose cable blamed for speedy neutrinos
In uncovering a technical flaw, physicists now know why an experimental result that couldn’t have been true wasn’t.
- Particle Physics
Higgs running out of hiding places
particle’s mass confirms a final missing piece of physics’ puzzle is right where scientists think it is.
- Life
Bird flu less deadly, but more widespread, than official numbers suggest
The H5N1 virus appears to have infected far more than the 573 officially confirmed victims.
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- Humans
Shelters date to Stone Age
Middle Eastern foragers inhabited dwellings for months at a time around 20,000 years ago.
- Life
Old-fashioned fish regrow fins
Fish on an ancient line can regenerate lost limbs with newt-like flair, suggesting that ability was shared among ancient ancestors.
