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- Anthropology
Lucy fossil gets jolted upright by Big Man
Scientists have unearthed a 3.6-million-year-old partial hominid skeleton that may recast the iconic species as humanlike walkers.
- Earth
Even a newborn canyon is big in Texas
A flood carved a surprisingly large gorge that may help understand features on Earth and Mars.
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Fat chance
Scientists are working out ways to rev up the body’s gut-busting machinery.
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Life from scratch
Relaunching biology from the beginning.
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The Truth Hurts
Scientists question voice-based lie detection.
- Space
Wet past for Red Planet
An ocean blanketed one-third of Mars about 3.5 billion years ago, a new study suggests.
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Science Past from the issue of July 2, 1960
HIGH MILK CONTAMINATION FROM NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS — Radioactive contamination of milk is likely to be “the most widespread hazard” resulting from a nuclear accident or explosion depositing fission products on agricultural land, according to recent studies in England reported in a forthcoming issue of Nature…. Elements that appeared to cause the greatest contamination are the […]
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Science Future for July 3, 2010
August 8 – 12 Geoscientists meet in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, for an international conference. See www.agu.org/meetings/ja10 August 11 – 14 The Cognitive Science Society meets in Portland, Ore. Go to cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2010 September 6 Last day to view the Chicago Field Museum’s exhibit on creatures of the Ice Age. See www.fieldmuseum.org/mammoths
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March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen by John L. Ingraham
For those who know where to look, microbes abound in daily life. MARCH OF THE MICROBES: SIGHTING THE UNSEEN BY JOHN L. INGRAHAM Belknap Press/Harvard Univ. Press, 2010, 326 p., $28.95.
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Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think by Elaine Howard Ecklund
Through surveys and interviews, a sociologist examines scientists’ views on religion. SCIENCE VS. RELIGION: WHAT SCIENTISTS REALLY THINK BY ELAINE HOWARD ECKLUND Oxford Univ. Press, 2010, 228 p., $27.95.
