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Corporate campaigns manufacture scientific doubt by David Michaels
From the September 27, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Math
Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians
Henri Cartan, one of the leaders of a revolution in mathematics, dies at 104.
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Protecting the Internet from the criminal element, by Eugene Spafford
From the September 13, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Math
Seeing in four dimensions
Mathematicians create videos that help in visualizing four-dimensional objects.
- Astronomy
Preserving digital data for the future of eScience
From the August 30, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Math
Do subatomic particles have free will?
Math Trek: If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove.
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In communicating science, Europe envies the U.S.
From the August 16, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Math
A Quasi-quasicrystal
Quasicrystals are bizarre, rare, mysterious materials blending mathematical order and irregularity. A new, unexpected material halfway between a regular crystal and a quasicrystal may help reveal their secrets.
- Math
A building of bubbles
Math Trek: The National Aquatics Center in Beijing, newly built for the Olympics, is a glowing cube of bubbles. The mathematics behind it are built around Lord Kelvin's tetrakaidecahedra and the physics of foam.
- Humans
Science should be prominent in U.S. foreign policy
Excerpted comments from a panel discussion at the World Science Summit that addressed the topic of the role of science in foreign affairs. Among the participants were the esteemed scientists Harold Varmus, David Baltimore and Nina Fedoroff.
- Math
Scooping the political pollsters
Who will win the election in November? A technique from baseball stats may predict the answer.
- Science & Society
Seeding liberal arts courses with science parables
In the July 19 Comment, Dudley Herschbach, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry, discusses how to infuse scientific ideas into humanities education with an aim of increasing overall scientific literacy. Herschbach is Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Science & the Public.
