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Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
Attempts to wipe out diseases such as malaria come with a cost, this history of eradication campaigns shows. Cornell Univ., 2011, 309 p., $39.95
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Riddle of the Feathered Dragons: Hidden Birds of China by Alan Feduccia
An evolutionary biologist reviews fossil evidence for bird and dinosaur evolution and contests the view that birds are the last living dinosaurs. Yale Univ., 2012, 358 p., $55
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African American Women Chemists by Jeannette Brown
A chemist sketches the lives of women who broke racial boundaries, including Marie Maynard Daly, the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1947. Oxford Univ., 2012, 272 p., $35
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DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World by David Kinkela
Science and politics collide in this history of one of the world’s most controversial pesticides. Univ. of North Carolina, 2011, 272 p., $39.95
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 by Mircea Pitici, ed.
This anthology offers an overview of stories written for a popular audience about the mysteries and everyday uses of math. Princeton Univ., 2012, 414 p., $19.95
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BOOK REVIEW: Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch
Review by Laura Sanders.
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Mix and Match Qubits
Hybrid strategy may yield long-awaited quantum computers.
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- Physics
Loose cable blamed for speedy neutrinos
In uncovering a technical flaw, physicists now know why an experimental result that couldn’t have been true wasn’t.
- Life
Bird flu less deadly, but more widespread, than official numbers suggest
The H5N1 virus appears to have infected far more than the 573 officially confirmed victims.
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