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Over the Coasts: An Aerial View of Geology by Michael Collier
Review by Sid Perkins.
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Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up by K.C. Cole
Review by Laura Sanders.
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The Religion and Science Debate: Why Does It Continue? Edited by Harold W. Attridge
Scholars from the humanities and natural and social sciences discuss the interminable tensions between religion and science. Yale Univ. Press, 2009, 221 p., $16. THE RELIGION AND SCIENCE DEBATE: WHY DOES IT CONTINUE? EDITED BY HAROLD W. ATTRIDGE
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Mythematics: Solving the 12 Labors of Hercules by Michael Huber
Math could have saved the ancient hero time and muscle, a professor writes. Princeton Univ. Press, 2009, 183 p., $24.95. MYTHEMATICS: SOLVING THE 12 LABORS OF HERCULES BY MICHAEL HUBER
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The Greatest Science Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer
True stories about scientists show that the path to innovation is rarely straight- forward. Harper, 2009, 224 p., $19.99. THE GREATEST SCIENCE STORIES NEVER TOLD BY RICK BEYER
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Hybrid: The History & Science of Plant Breeding by Noel Kingsbury
Breeders have taken an active role in plants’ reproduction throughout human history. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009, 493 p., $35. HYBRID: THE HISTORY & SCIENCE OF PLANT BREEDING BY NOEL KINGSBURY
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Gems and Gemstones: Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World by Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn
Gemstones are more than pretty baubles. Gems and their geological features are depicted in text and beautiful photographs. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009, 369 p., $45. GEMS AND GEMSTONES: TIMELESS NATURAL BEAUTY OF THE MINERAL WORLD BY LANCE GRANDE AND ALLISON AUGUSTYN
- Space
Black hole may construct its own galactic home
Observations of a ‘homeless’ quasar suggest new ideas for galaxy formation.
- Life
Bird feeding, migration could be splitting a species
German birds that spend the off-season at U.K. birdfeeders now look slightly different from neighbors that migrate to Spain
- Health & Medicine
Targeting microRNA knocks out hepatitis C
Blocking a small molecule, a new drug reduces levels of the virus, chimp study shows.
- Anthropology
Contested signs of mass cannibalism
A new study yields controversial evidence of mass cannibalism in central Europe 7,000 years ago.
- Earth
Ocean’s carbon dioxide uptake varies year to year
Data taken hourly by cargo ships show that how much of the greenhouse gas North Atlantic waters absorb varies more than thought.
