All Stories by Science News
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EARTH IN ACTION Learn about sinkhole science in Alex Witze’s column “Geologists develop weapons to combat that sinkhole feeling.” Courtesy of N. Thake ENVIRONMENT There’s good news for some corals in “Isolated coral reefs can regrow after bleaching.” DELETED SCENES Several new studies support claims of vitamin D’s health benefits. See “Vitamin D doesn’t disappoint.” […]
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Upcoming events
Science Future for May 4, 2013.
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New star dating method
Science Past from the issue of May 4, 1963.
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Letters to the editor
Faux pas on fashion In “Students honored for research,” (SN: 4/6/13, p. 28), the female winner got singled out as “decked out in a lavender satin dress.” Didn’t Hillary Clinton recently point out to an interviewer that he asked her about her clothes, whereas he wouldn’t ask a man that? What are you trying to […]
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BOOK REVIEW: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
Review by Nathan Seppa.
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Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own by David Toomey
Organisms in extreme environments — from bacteria deep under the ocean floor to imagined creatures on distant moons — challenge definitions of life. W.W. Norton & Co., 2013, 268 p., $25.95
- Particle Physics
Heart of Darkness
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe (Science Essentials) by Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton.
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Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot by Peter Crane
An ancient tree lineage has survived and made its way into humans’ lives through medicine, art and as a popular street tree, yet is now endangered in the wild. Yale Univ., 2013, 384 p., $40
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Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity by Roger Wiens
The scientist in charge of Curiosity’s ChemCam instrument gives a behind-the-scenes tour of the Mars robot. Basic Books, 2013, 233 p., $25.99
- Health & Medicine
2013 American Association for Cancer Research meeting
Highlights from the annual AACR meeting include ovulation’s impact on cancer risk and an experimental drug’s promising performance against leukemia.
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BECOMING HUMANLearn how people have been driving species to extinction since the Stone Age in a new column by Erin Wayman. Rufus Isaacs LIFE Wild insects are a key to bigger harvests. See “Native pollinators boost crop yields worldwide.” SCIENCE & SOCIETYBy tracking tweets, researchers identify communities. Read “Twitter maps New York City, language by […]
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Upcoming events
Science Future for April 20, 2013.
