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Physicians weigh in on how reporters refer to certain medications.Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine and Science & Society
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Here are thematic debates, minus the candidates, that you can take in via your computer.Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Found in: Science & Society
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Tainted infant formulas point to a problem in the way society values moms.Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine, Chemistry, Food Science and Science & Society
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Investments in health, one of the largest segments of the U.S. economy, have been stagnating — and could be poised to actually take a big hit.Published: Monday, September 29th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine and Science & Society
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The mathematics of dynamical systems reveals ocean dynamics, an understanding that could improve the monitoring of ocean processes.Published: Saturday, September 27th, 2008Found in: Numbers -
October 16–25 Imagine Science Film Festival to be held in New York City. Visit www.imaginesciencefilms.com October 28–30 ChemEng08 to be held in Birmingham, England. Visit www.chemeng08.com November 1 The Dibner Hall of the History of Science opens at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif. Visit www.huntington.orgPublished: Friday, September 26th, 2008
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Fishy Conversations — Spiny lobsters are like men, their voices become deeper as they grow older. This is one of the preliminary findings of Dr. James M. Moulton of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., who spent this summer at the Bermuda Biological Station eavesdropping on the conversations of undersea life. In countless other marine biological stations and research laboratories throughout the world, other researchers like Dr. Moulton are studying the various aspects of the oceans. The aim is twofold: They hope to unravel some of the mysteries of what many scientists feel is the “last frontie...Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008
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Only in the north It is not clear in the fine article on volcanoes (“Disaster goes global,” SN: 8/30/08, p. 16) how dust from the eruption of Huaynaputina, well south of the equator, in 1600 could affect only the Northern Hemisphere. David Bronson, Biddeford Pool, Maine For one thing, there’s less real estate in the Southern Hemisphere to have been affected. Also, the apparent lack of agricultural effects probably stems from population distribution at the time this eruption popped off. Australia was inhabited only by Aborigines until 1787 or so, and Cape Town, South Africa, wasn’t...Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008
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Home / Columns / Comment / Comment : ‘National Greatness’ versus real national greatness by Frank WilczekIn 1993, the U.S. Congress cut off funds for the Superconducting Super Collider, or SSC. After years of planning, two years of major construction and $2 billion spent, the most enduring achievement of the stillborn project was a tunnel from nothing to nowhere near Waxahachie, Texas. The SSC would have enabled us to explore nature in more extreme conditions — higher concentrations of energy — than ever before. It would have yielded fundamental new insights into the origin of the universe and the nature of matter, space and time. Thousands of scientists devoted big parts...Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008 -
Featured blog: Sixty-one Nobel laureates sign a letter explaining why they support Barack Obama's run for the presidency.Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine, Chemistry, Physics and Science & Society
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Chances are you haven't a clue where your medicines come from.Published: Thursday, September 25th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine and Science & Society -
Featured blog: Data from the vast majority of human cancer trials never get published, a new study finds — and that's not a good thing.Published: Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine and Science & Society
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Featured blog: When it comes to attitudes about climate change, the chasm between Democrats and Republicans is wide. Political-polling analysts speculate that a McCain win in November might do more than an Obama victory to win over the minds of climate-change skeptics.Published: Monday, September 22nd, 2008Found in: Climate Change, Environment, Matter & Energy and Science & Society
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The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a cooperative computing project, helps find a prime that has nearly 13 million digits.Published: Saturday, September 20th, 2008Found in: Numbers -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Apollo or Manhattan Project: Which Paradigm Fits Energy Better?A new petition developed to lobby the presidential candidates argues that increased federal investments in basic energy research are essential.Published: Friday, September 19th, 2008Found in: Matter & Energy and Science & Society
