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Defogging Titan’s methane mystery
Researchers have discovered fog just above Saturn’s moon Titan, indicating how methane cycles between the atmosphere and the surface of the moon.
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Science Future for September 26, 2009
October 5–7 Nobel Committee announces medicine, physics and chemistry awards. Visit nobelprize.org November 1 Petitions for a chemistry-themed postage stamp are due to the American Chemical Society. See cenblog.org/2009/07/07 November 1–3 “Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity and God” at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Visit nd.edu/~reilly/darwinconference.html
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Desperately Seeking Moly
Unreliable supplies of feedstock for widely used medical imaging isotope prompt efforts to develop U.S. sources.
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Hunting Hidden Dimensions
Black holes, giant and tiny, may reveal new realms of space.
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Broken Symmetry
Scientists seek mechanisms explaining development of the body’s left-right pattern.
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Book Review: Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology by David B. Williams
Review by Sid Perkins.
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Homage to a Pied Puzzler
Ed Pegg Jr., Alan H. Schoen and Tom Rodgers, eds.
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Theo Gray’s Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home — But Probably Shouldn’t by Theodore Gray
Dramatic experiments, captured in color photography with step-by-step instructions, demonstrate scientific principles from the everyday world. Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009, 239 p., $24.95. THEO GRAY’S MAD SCIENCE: EXPERIMENTS YOU CAN DO AT HOME — BUT PROBABLY SHOULDN’T BY THEODORE GRAY
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From baby scientists to a science of social learning
Developmental psychologist Andrew Meltzoff codirects the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. In the July 17 Science , Meltzoff and his colleagues published a paper titled “Foundations for a New Science of Learning.” Meltzoff recently spoke with Science News writer Bruce Bower. What does the science of learning […]
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Science Past from the issue of September 26, 1959
Many Americans suffer “television bottom” — Many Americans are suffering from a condition called “television bottom.” The medical term for the condition is coccygodynia, pain in the tail of the spine. It arises frequently from spending long periods of time before the television set.… Most patients habitually sit with a poor posture, with the lower […]
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Letters
From the September 26, 2009 issue of Science News.
