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- Math
Seeing in four dimensions
Mathematicians create videos that help in visualizing four-dimensional objects.
- Astronomy
Preserving digital data for the future of eScience
From the August 30, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Math
Do subatomic particles have free will?
Math Trek: If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove.
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In communicating science, Europe envies the U.S.
From the August 16, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Math
A Quasi-quasicrystal
Quasicrystals are bizarre, rare, mysterious materials blending mathematical order and irregularity. A new, unexpected material halfway between a regular crystal and a quasicrystal may help reveal their secrets.
- Math
A building of bubbles
Math Trek: The National Aquatics Center in Beijing, newly built for the Olympics, is a glowing cube of bubbles. The mathematics behind it are built around Lord Kelvin's tetrakaidecahedra and the physics of foam.
- Humans
Science should be prominent in U.S. foreign policy
Excerpted comments from a panel discussion at the World Science Summit that addressed the topic of the role of science in foreign affairs. Among the participants were the esteemed scientists Harold Varmus, David Baltimore and Nina Fedoroff.
- Math
Scooping the political pollsters
Who will win the election in November? A technique from baseball stats may predict the answer.
- Science & Society
Seeding liberal arts courses with science parables
In the July 19 Comment, Dudley Herschbach, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry, discusses how to infuse scientific ideas into humanities education with an aim of increasing overall scientific literacy. Herschbach is Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Science & the Public.
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The ultimate poker face
Two professional poker players will take on a computer, and this year the computer could win.
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Strategies for nurturing science’s next generation
Nobel laureate Thomas R. Cech discusses the conclusions of ARISE, a new report that emphasizes the need for grant support for early-career scientific researchers and basic science research that may have no immediate tangible benefit. Cech is chair of the ARISE report panel and president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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