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- Humans
How to hear above the cocktail party din
Simply repeating a sound in different acoustic environments may allow listeners to focus in on it, experiments suggest.
- Life
Robins reject red glowing grub
Parasitic worms induce a color change in their caterpillar victims that's literally repulsive to predators.
- Humans
Calendar marks chemistry milestones
January 1, 2011, ushers in the International Year of Chemistry. The American Chemical Society has compiled on online calendar that points to landmark events and trivia to celebrate.
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Young’uns adrift on the sea
Scientists try to identify and track elusive larvae in a boundless ocean.
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Physicists join immune fight
Principles beyond biology may help explain how the body battles infection.
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Liquid Acquisition
Two new scenarios ramp up debate over how Earth got its water.
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Science Past from issue of January 14, 1961
MAN-MADE DIAMONDS ONE-CARAT SIZE PRODUCED — Large, man-made diamonds, more than a carat in size, have been produced for the first time. The diamonds are dark in color and cannot now be used for industrial purposes because of structural imperfections. They were made at the General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, N. Y., where the first […]
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Science Future for January 15, 2011
January 22 Tweens work with engineers in Boise, Idaho, to design cities. See www.futurecityidaho.org January 26 Science historian Steven Shapin discusses ancient and modern concepts of food science, in New York City. Go to www.nyas.org January 26 Raise a glass to the science of cocktails at San Francisco’s Exploratorium fundraiser. Go to www.exploratorium.edu
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Book Review: Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics by Misha Angrist
Review by Tina Hesman Saey.
- Health & Medicine
The Killer of Little Shepherds:
A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr.
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The Leafcutter Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson
Two Pulitzer Prize–winning biologists team up to describe ants that farm their own food and form colonies that can be considered advanced civilizations. The Leafcutter Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson W.W. Norton, 2010, 160 p., $19.95.
