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- Space
Probing the heart and soul of star formation
An infrared spacecraft has captured a penetrating view of two dusty nebulae about 6,000 light-years from Earth.
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Engineering a cooler Earth
Researchers brainstorm radical ways to counter climate change.
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A pregnant question
How antidepressants may subtly alter a growing baby’s brain.
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Elemental escape
Making superheavies may reveal island of stability.
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Science Future for June 5, 2010
June 11 – 14 American Society of Mammalogists meets in Laramie, Wyo. See www.uwyo.edu/asm2010 July 17 San Francisco’s Exploratorium museum launches a series of podcasts on the science of creativity. See www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/index.php July 17 – 21 The American Society for Virology hosts its annual conference in Bozeman, Mont. Get agenda at www.asv.org
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Science Past from the issue of June 4, 1960
SOLVING OF SUN’S RIDDLES — Future space probes may skim as “close” as two million miles from the sun’s visible surface, a report to the National Academy of Sciences suggests. Before this can be done, however, greatly improved materials must be developed since temperatures at that distance would be about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, roughly the […]
- Math
‘Discounting’ the future cost of climate change
Economists develop new methods to quantify the trade-off between spending now and spending later.
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Book Reviews: Geoengineering
Reviews by Alexandra Witze.
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Book Review: The Science of Doctor Who by Paul Parsons
Review by Erika Engelhaupt.
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Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler: Visiting Physics and Chemistry Sites Across America by Duane S. Nickell
From Maine to Oregon, the country offers sightseeing for science enthusiasts. GUIDEBOOK FOR THE SCIENTIFIC TRAVELER: VISITING PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY SITES ACROSS AMERICA BY DUANE S. NICKELL Rutgers Univ. Press, 2010, 258 p., $19.95.
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The Babylonian Theorem: The Mathematical Journey to Pythagoras and Euclid by Peter S. Rudman
Ancient Babylonians and Egyptians paved the way for Greek mathematicians, a physicist contends. THE BABYLONIAN THEOREM: THE MATHEMATICAL JOURNEY TO PYTHAGORAS AND EUCLID BY PETER S. RUDMAN Prometheus Books, 2010, 248 p., $26.
