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On the Fringe
Astronomers look to the Kuiper belt for clues to the solar system’s history.
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Evolution’s Bad Girl
Ardi shakes up the fossil record.
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The Ties That Bind
Studies of human social networks go high-tech.
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Cancer plaguing Tasmanian devils began in one animal’s nerve cells
Genetics provide a starting point for diagnosis and potential vaccines.
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Science Past from the issue of January 16, 1960
MEN TO MARS POSSIBLE IN 60’S, EXPERTS SAY — The United States will be able to send three men on a 14-month expedition to Mars in a nuclear-powered two-stage rocket ship during the 1960’s, three space experts assert. The rocket ship would go into orbit around Mars, and the exploring party would use a chemically […]
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Science Future for January 16, 2010
February 4–5 Annual meeting of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences occurs in Las Vegas. See aabss.org February 13–17 The American Physical Society and American Association of Physics Teachers meet in Washington, D.C. See www.aps.org March 17 Human origins exhibit premieres at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. See humanorigins.si.edu
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Powering the national labs as engines of discovery
In May 2009, University of Chicago physicist Eric D. Isaacs took the helm of the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Earlier in his career, Isaacs spent 13 years at Bell Laboratories, where he directed semiconductor and materials physics research. Recently, Science News senior editor Janet Raloff spoke with Isaacs about ways to […]
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Letters
Well-tooled apes The fascinating article “Aping the Stone Age” (SN: 11/21/09, p. 24) led me to wonder whether researchers who work with chimps or other higher apes have ever introduced them to the modern tools used by humans, such as saws, axes, hammers or pliers. If so, it would be interesting to know whether the […]
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Book Review: Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe by Florin Diacu
Review by Kristina Bartlett Brody.
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Book Review: Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an E.R. Psychiatrist by Paul R. Linde
Review by Rachel Zelkowitz.
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The Double Helix and the Law of Evidence by David H. Kaye
A legal scholar describes the history and future of DNA-based evidence in the American justice system. Harvard University Press, 2010, 330 p., $45. THE DOUBLE HELIX AND THE LAW OF EVIDENCE BY DAVID H. KAYE
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Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning by Jason Corburn
City planners could increase health equity by considering environmental and public health issues during urban redevelopment. MIT Press, 2009, 282 p., $24. TOWARD THE HEALTHY CITY: PEOPLE, PLACES, AND THE POLITICS OF URBAN PLANNING BY JASON CORBURN
