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- Chemistry
Different strokes
Though they share the same design, new micromachines are not a synchronized swimming team.
- Psychology
DNA variant may make heavy boozing a team sport
People who inherit a particular gene variant may find it more appealing to drink a lot of alcohol when they see others doing so.
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Nature’s recourse
How plants and animals fight back when deals go sour.
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Beneath that blazing facade
Researchers revamp ideas about what’s in the sun.
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The incredible shrinking solar cell
With lilliputian collectors, almost anything could be sun-powered.
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Science Future for July 31, 2010
August 14 – 17The American Sociological Association meets in Atlanta. See www.asanet.org/meetings August 30 – September 3Researchers and policy makers meet in Boston to discuss environmental factors affecting penguin population health. See www.penguinconference.org September 1A psychologist lectures in New York City on the connection between beauty and happiness. See www.nyas.org/events
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Science Past from the issue of July 30, 1960
LIP-SMACKING GRASSHOPPER — A grasshopper with a talent for lip-smacking has turned out to be quite an unusual insect. Paratylotropidia brunneri Scudder is the first insect known to communicate over fairly long distances by producing an audible sound from the mouth — literally smacking its lips…. Produced at the rate of six or seven per […]
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Book Review: Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience by Stephen S. Hall
Review by Rachel Zelkowitz.
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Book Review: Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery by Stephen J. Pyne
Review by Alexandra Witze.
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Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do by Albert-László Barabási
Mining digital data reveals patterns in seemingly spontaneous human behavior. BURSTS: THE HIDDEN PATTERN BEHIND EVERYTHING WE DO BY ALBERT-LáSZLó BARABáSI Dutton, 2010, 310 p., $26.95.
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Professor Stewart’s Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart
The math professor returns with more brain teasers, puzzles and facts designed to reveal the fun side of the subject. PROFESSOR STEWART’S HOARD OF MATHEMATICAL TREASURES BY IAN STEWART Basic Books, 2010, 339 p., $16.95.
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Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar
The story of quantum mechanics and the decades-long argument about how to interpret it. QUANTUM: EINSTEIN, BOHR, AND THE GREAT DEBATE ABOUT THE NATURE OF REALITY BY MANJIT KUMAR W.W. Norton & Co., 2010, 448 p., $27.95.
