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ON THE SCENE BLOG Spinning neutron stars called pulsars keep turning up in new and exotic flavors. Read “Weird pulsars debut at Beijing astronomy meeting.” NASA SCIENCE & SOCIETY The world’s first moonwalker left a legacy of exploration. See “Neil Armstrong, first man on moon, dies at 82.” NUMBERS The busiest air-traffic hubs aren’t always […]
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Science Future for September 22, 2012
September 29 The “Make it Science Day” at the Columbus, Ohio, Center of Science and Industry explores the science of manufacturing. You can even try your hand at basic soldering. See bit.ly/SFmakeit October 17 For National Fossil Day, a part of Earth Science Week, paleontologists and U.S. National Park rangers will explain fossil discoveries at […]
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Science Past from the issue of September 22, 1962
PIGMENT MAY HELP VISION — The same chemical that gives you that golden tan from the summer sun may also help you to see. The brown pigment, melanin, may take part in controlling the messages sent from the eye to the brain, Lieut. Raymond J. Sever, U.S. Navy, told the American Chemical Society in Atlantic […]
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LIFE Insects practice their own form of suicide bombing. See “Terminator termites have unique technique.” Marina Montresor, SZN, Alfred Wegener Institute ENVIRONMENT Iron fertilizer passes a test as a climate aid in “Field test stashes climate-warming carbon in deep ocean.” SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC BLOG Dental resins may be linked to some behavioral shifts in […]
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Science Future for September 8, 2012
September 26 The Houston Museum of Natural Science celebrates Oktoberfest with the History and Science of Beer. Learn more at bit.ly/SFhoustOkt September 27–30 The first Wisconsin Science Festival in Madison has hands-on activities and exhibits on the physics of football, the chemistry of urine, Midwest archaeology and more. See bit.ly/SFwiscfest
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Science Past for September 8, 1962
NEW METHOD USES CRYSTAL TO DETECT COSMIC RAYS — A new method for detecting the cosmic rays that continuously bombard the earth from outer space has been developed. The technique of using a crystal to catch the tracks of cosmic rays, already showing its worth on earth, will be tried from an earth satellite this […]
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ON THE SCENE BLOG The man at the rover lab’s helm talks to Science News. See “A lifetime of curiosity: An interview with JPL director Charles Elachi.” Courtesy Helmut Tischlinger, Eichstätt Museum of the Jurassic LIFE An unusually well-preserved fossil suggests dino ancestors were fluffy. Read “All dinosaurs may have had feathers.” HUMANS DNA tracks […]
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Science Future for August 25, 2012
September 13 Take a swig of beer science at the Museum of Life + Science in Durham, N.C. Event will include samples of 10 local beers plus a chance to learn about beer chemistry and physics. See bit.ly/SFncbeer September 15 Visit the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago for an inside look at the lab’s energy […]
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Science Past from the issue of August 25, 1962
RUBY LASER PIERCES A SAPPHIRE CRYSTAL — A pulsed ruby laser piercing a sapphire crystal is shown on this week’s front cover. The laser at the Radio Corporation of America Laboratories in Princeton, N.J., generates energy so intense that it can bore a sixteenth of an inch hole in the sapphire in a thousandth of […]
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DELETED SCENES BLOG The Higgs boson deserves all the hype it has received — and then some. Read about the particle’s hidden talents in “Higgs hysteria.” Courtesy of Nigel Franks Two new studies support the idea that an odd microbe cannot swap arsenic for phosphorus. Read “Arsenic-based life gets even more toxic.” LIFE Scientists electronically […]
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Science Future for August 11, 2012
August 23 Christof Koch discusses his book Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist at the Aspen Brain Forum in Colorado. See bit.ly/SFkoch August 31 Nominations due for induction into the Space Technology Hall of Fame. See bit.ly/SFfame September 3 Last day of Summer of Irresponsible Science at the Maryland Science Center. See bit.ly/SFSIS
