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Obama Likes Research
Featured blog: The Obama campaign answers 14 questions posed by the Science Debate 2008 committee, and research figured prominently in most of the answers.
- Health & Medicine
Candidates weigh in on biomedicine
Obama and McCain weigh in on stem cells, federal research funding, and preventive medicine.
- Math
Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians
Henri Cartan, one of the leaders of a revolution in mathematics, dies at 104.
- Humans
Honey of a discovery
Investigators have discovered the remains of 3,000-year-old beehives in Israel, offering a glimpse of the oldest known beekeeping operation.
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Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife
Review by Rachel Ehrenberg.
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The Complete Herb Book
Jekka McVicar, Firefly Books, 2008, 304 p., $29.95.
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DNA: Promise and Peril
Linda L. McCabe and Edward R.B. McCabe, Univ. of California Press, 2008, 339 p., $39.95.
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What’s the Big Idea? Four Centuries of Innovation in Boston
Stephen Krensky, Charlesbridge, 2008, 64 p., $18.95.
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Out of the Blue
John S. Friedman, Delacorte Press, 2008, 290 p., $24.
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Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump, DK Publishing, 2008, 208 p., $25.
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From Science News Letter, September 13, 1958
RNA INFLUENCES CELL DIFFERENTIATION — Ribonucleic acid has been pinpointed as having an essential role in cell differentiation, the process by which the early embryo’s look-alike cells become nerve, bone, skin and other organs. Working with extremely small quantities of cellular material, 20 to 50 cells, taken from embryonic newt and salamander tissue, Dr. M. C. Niu […]
