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The Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling a Two-Thousand-Year-Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe by Jason Socrates Bardi
The story of the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry. Wiley, 2009, 253 p., $27.95. THE FIFTH POSTULATE: HOW UNRAVELING A TWO-THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY UNRAVELED THE UNIVERSE BY JASON SOCRATES BARDI
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Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis: Projects and Principles for Beginning Geologists by Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori
Kid-friendly activities reveal the science behind natural disasters. Chicago Review, 2009, 136 p., $14.95 EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANOES, AND TSUNAMIS: PROJECTS AND PRINCIPLES FOR BEGINNING GEOLOGISTS BY MATTHYS LEVY AND MARIO SALVADORI
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- Health & Medicine
Morning birds buckle under sleep pressure
Sleep pressure helps set the circadian clocks of early birds and night owls.
- Humans
ED in women: Drugs for men might not help
Women can experience sexual dysfunction just as men can — and for much the same reason — but the little blue pill will likely not solve the problem, new animal data suggest.
- Plants
Oops, missed that tree
Until now, an acacia common in its African homeland had no scientific name
- Chemistry
Yeast bred to bear artificial vanilla
Researchers have co-opted fungi to produce the flavor more efficiently.
- Animals
Ants do real estate the simple way
Tracking ants with anti-shoplifter RFID tags has inspired a new, simplified view of how a colony finds a home
- Earth
A little air pollution boosts vegetation’s carbon uptake
Aerosols bumped up world’s plant productivity by 25 percent in the 1960s and 1970s, new research suggests.
- Earth
Fossil of a walking seal found
A fossil skeleton discovered in the Canadian Arctic could represent a missing link in pinniped evolution.
- Health & Medicine
Mom’s exercise helps fetal lungs mature
Cardiovascular exercise appears to benefit both mom and the baby she's carrying.
- Life
Fossil evidence for a Goldilocks tyrannosaur
A newly described species of tyrannosaur helps fill in details about the fearsome meat-eating dinosaurs.
