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Science Future for March 12, 2011
March 15 Learn how brain-immune battles may lead to diseases like Alzheimer’s. In Portland, Ore. Go to www.omsi.edu/events March 15–27The 19th annual Environmental Film Festival screens at venues across Washington, D.C. See www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org March 21Join science-minded chefs in exploring experimental gastronomy in New York City. Go to www.nyas.org/Events March 25–July 6In Los Angeles, view Small […]
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The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease by Michael Bliss
A medical historian examines how society came to put faith in science to cure disease. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011, 104 p., $18.
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The Evolution of the Human Head by Daniel E. Lieberman
The story of human evolution is encapsulated in the myriad changes to the head’s anatomy, traced here throughout the hominid fossil record. Harvard Univ. Press, 2011, 756 p., $39.95.
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Letters
Lofty argument I have been a fan of Science Service (now Society for Science & the Public) since I won a subscription to Things of Science [science kit] as a boy in the 1950s, so I feel I must correct a common misunderstanding on how an airplane wing develops lift as stated in your fine […]
- Earth
Earth/Environment
Scientists discover what causes the rumbles before a volcano erupts, plus more in this week’s news.
- Life
Lab-engineered organism fights malaria
A new breed of poison-secreting fungi can kill parasites in a mosquito.
- Humans
U.S. probably began global fire ant spread
A genetic study shows that recent international invasions likely originated in the U.S. South, not the species’ native South American range.
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A new era of physics at the Large Hadron Collider
Last month in Washington, D.C., at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, theoretical physicist Lisa Randall of Harvard University spoke about her hopes for the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. She sat down with Science News physical sciences writer Devin Powell after her February 19 […]
- Health & Medicine
Memories Can’t Wait
Researchers rethink the role of amyloid in causing Alzheimer’s
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Quantum Whirls
How turbulence plays out in exotic materials.
- Life
Genes & Cells
Mouse fur yields insights into the genetics of camouflage, plus more in this week’s news.
