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- Health & Medicine
Experimental drug fends off emphysema in mice
Mice exposed to cigarette smoke and then ed the drug and fended of emphysema, suggesting the edible drug might help ex-smokers.
- Life
Buzzing bees protect plant leaves
Honeybee air traffic can interrupt caterpillars' relentless munching.
- Earth
Warmer oceans would fuel more thunderstorms
Satellite data reveal more thunderheads forming as tropical sea-surface temperatures rise.
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Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek
Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek
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Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
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Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes
Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes
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Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett
Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett
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Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America by Stephen Trimble
Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America by Stephen Trimble
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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold
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Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners by Michael Worek, ed.
Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners by Michael Worek, ed.
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Letters
A better way The article “Thinning fuel before injection boosts efficiency” (SN: 10/25/08, p. 9) shows that there are many ways to find efficiency when we look. One place I see for improvement is moisture injection in the feed airstream to gasoline engines. Here in the Southwest, where humidity runs at 20 percent, rainy days […]
- Earth
Obama administration should lead energy transition
R.K. Pachauri, an engineer and economist by training, is director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India, and a corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his role as chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC periodically issues consensus reports on the science of climate change. Senior editor Janet Raloff spoke with him about changes he hopes to see from the Obama administration.
