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- Earth
Salinity sensors
Trace elements in the carbonate shells of freshwater mussels could serve as an archive of road salt pollution.
- Health & Medicine
Bad air for growing brains and minds
Preliminary evidence suggests that children’s regular exposure to heavy air pollution can be accompanied by brain inflammation and lowered scores on intelligence tests.
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Letters
From the October 25 issue of Science News magazine.
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U.S. must invest in technologies to avoid energy crisis
Steven Chu, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Nobel laureate in physics, has advocated for energy thrift. During a September visit to Washington, D.C., he spoke with senior editor Janet Raloff about how he believes the United States can tackle what he sees as a looming energy crisis. You’ve said the United States […]
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Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula by Jules G. Evens
Univ. of California, 2008, 366 p., $24.95.
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The Symmetries of Things by John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel and Chaim Goodman-Strauss
A.K. Peters, 2008, 426 p., $69.
- Health & Medicine
Body In Mind
Long thought the province of the abstract, cognition may actually evolve as physical experiences and actions ignite mental life.
- Astronomy
Ultramassive: as big as it gets
A black hole can consume anything in its path. These monsters can become huge — but perhaps only so huge.
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From Science News Letter, October 25, 1958
PIONEER LACKED EXTRA PUSH —Pioneer, man’s first space probe, came within a fraction of the 35,250-foot-per-second velocity needed to put it into an orbit around the moon. It reached a maximum velocity of 34,400 feet per second. Even though the vehicle burned up in the earth’s atmosphere, its successful flight to a distance of 79,316 […]
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Science Future for October 25, 2008
November 15 The Museum of Science in Boston will unveil a skeleton of Triceratops horridus as part of its Colossal Fossils: Triceratops Cliff exhibit. Visit www.mos.org December 7–12 The 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science will be held in Indianapolis. Visit escience2008.iu.edu April 30, 2009 Deadline for Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition. Visit www.nikonsmallworld.com
