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- Tech
Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work with light
Charles K. Kao wins for discoveries enabling fiber-optic communication, and Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith win for inventing the charge-coupled device
- Health & Medicine
President reverses federal ban on stem cell funding
President Barack Obama signed an executive order lifting a ban on federal funding for research that uses embryonic stem cells.
- Health & Medicine
Institute of Medicine takes on conflicts of interest
The Institute of Medicine seeks to divorce medical research from undue influence by the pharmaceutical and medical-device industries.
- Health & Medicine
Twin towers fallout lingers
People who were near the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, have high asthma and post-trauma stress rates years later.
- Health & Medicine
Genome 10K: A new ark
Featured blog: Researchers are working to catalog the DNA sequences of just about every vertebrate genus.
- Physics
Raindrops go it alone
A new study using a high-speed camera finds the shattering of solitary drips can produce a variety of sizes.
- Health & Medicine
NFL heart profile good, with a caveat
Football players have higher blood pressure on average, new study finds.
- Science & Society
All in a Day’s Work: Careers Using Science by Megan Sullivan
NSTA Press, 2008, 140 p., $15.95.
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A black future
Without destroying the Earth, the Large Hadron Collider might help humans explore the cosmos.
- Life
Mother right whales know best, maybe
Southern right whales learn where to eat from mom and may not seek new feeding grounds if these favorite restaurants go belly-up.
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Breaking it Down
Studies of how things fall apart may lead to materials that don’t.
- Health & Medicine
Swine flu genetics suggest a vaccine is possible
So far, strain's contagion appears on par with that of a seasonal flu outbreak. Vaccine would be at least months away.
