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Into orbit
MESSENGER pays a yearlong visit to Mercury.
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- Health & Medicine
Healthy Aging in a Pill
To extend life span, scientists envision a drug that mimics the benefits of a near-starvation diet.
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- Physics
Magnets trap neutrons for a lifetime
A new device that uses magnets to trap neutrons may enable physicists to measure more precisely how quickly free neutrons decay, a time period with implications for understanding both the weak force and the early universe.
- Math
The squint method of data analysis
Mathematicians discover a Klein bottle hidden within the data underlying photographs
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U.S. science policy needs to heed global realities
Comment by Steven Hyman, provost of Harvard University
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In communicating science, Europe envies the U.S.
From the August 16, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Humans
Nation needs recovery plan for science faculty jobs
Over the past few months, many graduate students and postdocs have been receiving letters from department chairs apologetically explaining that the faculty job search at Institution X has been canceled. State and private universities are facing declining tax revenues and falling endowments, and are unwilling to raise tuition on newly impoverished families. From Harvard to […]
- Math
The four color problem gets a sharp new hue
Mathematicians find new answers to the still puzzling theorem that four colors suffice to color any map.
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Treaty on antiquities hinders access for museums
Treaty on antiquities hinders access for museums JAMES CUNO Like water on a leaky roof, looted artifacts are finding the path of least resistance to a buyer somewhere. Art Inst. of Chicago James Cuno, a past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, has spent years investigating implications of a United Nations treaty: the […]
