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- Planetary Science
Before the Mississippi, minerals show ancient rivers flowed west
Michigan zircons uncover the path of an ancient river system across North America.
- Life
Marine creature cooks up chemical defense from food
The sea hare transforms a benign algal pigment into a noxious molecule to help ward off crabs and other predators, new studies show.
- Physics
A giant proposal for a new type of molecule
Atoms linked across vast distances, can point in two directions at once
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Genome from a bottle
Back Story: Cracking the code.
- Physics
Law & Disorder: A Companion
More resources about how physicists and philosophers understand time.
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Law & Disorder
Physicists keep trying to explain why time flows one way.
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Melting at the microscale
Studying sea ice close-up may improve climate models.
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Science Past from the issue of June 18, 1960
USSR USES SABIN VACCINE — The Sabin live polio virus vaccine, developed in the United States but not yet licensed here, is “completely harmless” and extremely effective, Russian scientists have found. They have already immunized millions of children in the USSR with the live vaccine.… The scientists said they had been particularly careful to study […]
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Science Future for June 19, 2010
June 25 – 29 The American Diabetes Association hosts its annual meeting in Orlando. See professional.diabetes.org July 11 A total solar eclipse can be seen in parts of the South Pacific. See viewing times for cities at eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov July 24 – 27 Clinicians and researchers meet in Vancouver, Canada to discuss heart disease research. See […]
- Space
Jupiter takes yet another hit
For the third time in 16 years, astronomers have documented a collision between Jupiter and a nearby body.
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Book Review: From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll
Review by Tom Siegfried.
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Book Review: The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare
Review by Sid Perkins.
