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Better by Design
Avoiding undesirable traits from the start could help chemists make molecules less meddlesome.
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Ice in Motion
As frozen lands disintegrate, researchers rush to catch the collapse.
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Science Past from the issue of March 25, 1961
CUT-OFF LIVER KEPT ALIVE — Three surgeons have completely isolated the liver from dogs, and with heart-lung machines have kept the animals and their livers alive for as long as eight hours. They were able to replant the livers in place, rejoin the numerous blood vessel connections and restore the animals to health.… The purpose […]
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Science Future for March 26, 2011
March 28 Discuss nanotechnology at a Seattle Science on Tap event. See http://scienceontap.org April 2–24In Orange County, Calif., see bouncing bubbles, smoking bubbles and more at Discovery Science Center’s Bubblefest. Go to www.discoverycube.org April 7 Chemists make molecular magic at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C. See www.ncmls.org/visit/events
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Book Review: Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux
Review by Ron Cowen.
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick
Buy this book This absorbing tale, set in the 17th century, recounts how Isaac Newton and the founders of the Royal Society described the order of the universe. Harper, 2011, 378 p., $27.99.
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How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old by Marc E. Agronin
Buy this book A young doctor reflects on lessons learned about life and medicine as a psychiatrist in a Miami nursing home. Da Capo, 2011, 320 p., $25.
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Life in a Shell: A Physiologist’s View of a Turtle by Donald C. Jackson
Buy this book A physiologist shows how shells have helped turtles survive virtually unchanged for 220 million years. Harvard Univ. Press, 2011, 178 p., $29.95.
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What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts? by Joshua S. Bloom
Buy this book For readers willing to dive into (or skim past) a bit of math, this book surveys the latest research on these mysterious cosmic explosions. Princeton Univ. Press, 2011, 256 p., $27.95.
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Rabbits: The Animal Answer Guide (The Animal Answer Guides: Q&A for the Curious Naturalist) by Susan Lumpkin and John Seidensticker
Buy this book Learn little-known facts about the familiar animals, whose 90 species include several of the world’s most endangered. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2011, 235 p., $24.95.
