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- Humans
From the November 3, 1934, issue
Telephone transmitters, taking the bitter taste out of certain medicines, and the composition of planets.
- Humans
Bat Moves and More
Take a look at the winners of this year’s Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Science magazine. Particularly noteworthy is a dramatic video that shows a bat tracking and capturing a praying mantis. This video was made by researchers at the University of Maryland, who combined slow-motion video, animation, […]
- Humans
From the October 27, 1934, issue
A large telescope lens made in Russia, artificial gamma rays from sodium, and acetylcholine revealed as message carrier for nerve cells.
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Sequenced Genomes
These listings are about as close as modern genomics gets to Pokemon cards. Here are illustrations and quick descriptions of organisms whose genomes have been sequenced. Some are familiar, such as Homo sapiens, but in most cases, it’s a great way to meet some amazing biological oddities. Go to: http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/resources/sequenced_genomes/genome_guide_p1.shtml
- Computing
Net History
Nethistory.info is a new Web site devoted to the history of the Internet. Its aim is to provide material documenting the applications and platforms that came together to create the early Internet, including protocols, personal computers, e-mail, the World Wide Web, networks, and much more. You can sign up for a free monthly newsletter and […]
- Humans
From the October 20, 1934, issue
Searching New York's East River for golden treasure, enormous canyon discovered in Mexico, and new radioactive elements predicted.
- Humans
From the October 13, 1934, issue
A wingless rooster, production of artificial radioactive elements, and novae proposed as the origin of cosmic rays.
- Animals
Bird Calls
The Macaulay Library at Cornell University has the largest collection of animal sounds in the world. More than 67 percent of the world’s birds are represented in the center’s 160,000 recordings, along with sounds made by insects, fish, frogs, and mammals. The Library also archives and preserves a sampling of the behaviors of different animal […]
- Humans
From the October 6, 1934, issue
Glass models of rotifers, anthrax as a threat among agricultural workers, and cosmic-ray studies in the stratosphere.
- Earth
Eye on Mount St. Helens
Keep an eye on the ongoing volcanic activity at Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington. Images taken by the Johnston Ridge Observatory’s VolcanoCam, at an elevation of about 4,500 feet, are updated roughly every 5 minutes. They’re snapped from a distance of about 5 miles from the volcano, looking approximately south-southeast across the […]
- Humans
From the September 29, 1934, issue
Structural details of chromosomes, America's Cup yacht technology, and an improved street car.
- Humans
Skeptical Brains
At the Web site of the McDonnell Foundation, a private funder of scientific research, peruse examples of recent media misinterpretations of brain studies—as chosen by foundation staffers—at a page titled “BAD Neuro-Journalism.” Go to: http://www.jsmf.org/about/s/badneuro/index.htm
