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- Earth
Obama administration should lead energy transition
R.K. Pachauri, an engineer and economist by training, is director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India, and a corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his role as chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC periodically issues consensus reports on the science of climate change. Senior editor Janet Raloff spoke with him about changes he hopes to see from the Obama administration.
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- Space
Debates over definition of planet continue and inspire
Planetary science is in the midst of a revolution. As recently as the early 1990s, “the planets” consisted of just nine famous objects in our solar system that every school kid learned to recognize by name and appearance. But then, advances in astronomical technology unleashed an explosion of new planetary discoveries on two fronts. One […]
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U.S. must invest in technologies to avoid energy crisis
Steven Chu, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Nobel laureate in physics, has advocated for energy thrift. During a September visit to Washington, D.C., he spoke with senior editor Janet Raloff about how he believes the United States can tackle what he sees as a looming energy crisis. You’ve said the United States […]
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‘National Greatness’ versus real national greatness by Frank Wilczek
From the October 11, 2008 issue of Science News.
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Corporate campaigns manufacture scientific doubt by David Michaels
From the September 27, 2008 issue of Science News.
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Protecting the Internet from the criminal element, by Eugene Spafford
From the September 13, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Astronomy
Preserving digital data for the future of eScience
From the August 30, 2008 issue of Science News.
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In communicating science, Europe envies the U.S.
From the August 16, 2008 issue of Science News.
