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Letters to the editor
Bohr no boor As described in “When the atom went quantum,” (SN: 7/13/13, p. 20), Bohr’s willingness to travel both paths when different viewpoints seemed to clash, yet both seemed to fit the data, was crucial to the development of quantum mechanics. Yet that willingness cannot be equated with acceptance of all possible views. Having […]
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- Science & Society
Impactful Distraction
Talking while driving poses dangers that people seem unable to see.
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- Tech
Online ‘likes’ multiply themselves
Social media users swayed by previous ratings, researchers find when they randomly assign positive and negative votes.
- Health & Medicine
Camels implicated as possible hosts of MERS virus
Antibodies to a mysterious pathogen that has sickened 94 people were found in camels in Oman and the Canary Islands.
- Earth
Emissions could fuel global warming for millennia
Climate simulation projects effects of greenhouse gases farther into the future than ever before.
- Tech
Hybrid race car of transistors debuts
A new transistor combines the essential features of high speed and low energy consumption.
- Health & Medicine
Vaccine protects against malaria in early test
A series of shots enables volunteers to fend off a live infection by the disease-causing parasite.
