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Science Future for February 11, 2012
February 23 As part of National Engineers Week, talk to a child or group for Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. Find resources at bit.ly/zXAZVP March 1 Last day to submit entries to the 2012 Kavli “Save the World Through Science & Engineering” video contest for grades 6–12. See bit.ly/w3iCjM
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Science Past from the issue of February 10, 1962
EFFECT OF WEIGHTLESSNESS — Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.’s experience in weightlessness during his coming orbital flight will not be long enough to cause him any undue stress such as that suffered by Cosmonaut Titov, a U.S. Air Force expert reported. “Experiments by the Russians with animals and men as well as our own experiments […]
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A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest by William DeBuys
A look at how global warming could affect the American Southwest reveals a landscape in peril. Oxford Univ., 2011, 369 p., $27.95
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Memory: Fragments of a Modern History by Alison Winter
With examples from police interrogators to hypnotized housewives, a historian describes changing views of memory — what it is, how it’s formed and what it means. Univ. of Chicago, 2012, 310 p., $30
- Neuroscience
Self as Symbol
The loopy nature of consciousness trips up scientists studying themselves.
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- Health & Medicine
Prions more mobile than thought
Scientists coax pathogens from cow and goat to infect engineered mice, suggesting disease agents can readily jump from one species to another.
- Space
More like Faux-malhaut b
The Spitzer Space Telescope fails to find a visible planet circling where Hubble saw one four years ago.
- Chemistry
Measuring what makes a medicine
A new way to evaluate molecules offers a finer-grained picture of which ones could become drugs.
- Space
Molten blobs create moon flashes
Mysterious lunar lights are the superhot remains of meteorites pelting the surface.
- Humans
Intel Science Talent Search names top 40 finalists
More than 1,800 high school students entered the 2012 competition.
