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Mad Science: Einstein’s Fridge, Dewar’s Flask, Mach’s Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made Our World by Randy Alfred, ed.
Celebrate a technology anniversary for each day of the year with this compendium of inventions. Little, Brown and Co., 2012, 390 p., $19.99
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BOOK REVIEW: Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
Review by Alexandra Witze.
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- Life
Inflammation feeds E. coli
Inflammation, normally a defense against microbes, may become counterproductive in the gut by feeding disease-causing bacteria.
- Science & Society
No New Meds
With drug firms in retreat, the pipeline for new psychiatric medications dries up.
- Earth
Salvage Job
With fertilizer prices skyrocketing, scientists scramble to recover phosphorus from waste.
- Archaeology
A king’s final hours, told by his mortal remains
The skeleton of Richard III reveals a violent and chaotic end for a controversial English monarch.
- Space
Supernova’s death throes revealed
In archival images, astronomers see giant star’s activity in weeks before supernova.
- Earth
Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes Solomon Islands
Temblor is the largest in a month of seismic activity on Australian-Pacific plate boundary.
- Health & Medicine
Link between obesity and vitamin D clarified
People carrying gene variants tied to weight are also prone to deficiency of the sun-derived nutrient, but not vice versa.
- Animals
Mole sniffs the world in stereo
Nostrils of the common mole recognize slight differences in smells to steer it toward its food.
- Health & Medicine
TV watching linked to low sperm counts
Couch potatoes’ reproductive health may suffer.
