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Disaster Goes Global
The eruption in 1600 of a seemingly quiet volcano in Peru changed global climate and triggered famine as far away as Russia
- Earth
Rapid evolution may be reshaping forest birds’ wings
Logging during the last century might have driven birds in mature boreal forests toward pointier wings while reforestation in New England led to rounder wings.
- Earth
Hazy changes on high
A big boost in coal burning, especially in China, is adding aerosols to the stratosphere.
- Earth
Shaky Forecasts
Despite past failures, geophysicists think earthquake prediction might still be possible.
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What do you see?
Emotion may help the visual system jump the gun to predict what the brain will see.
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Pearls Unstrung
For a while, the Great Lakes weren’t connected by rivers and Niagara Falls was just a trickle.
- Tech
Isotope crisis threatens medical care
Global production of the feedstock for the leading medical-imaging isotope is low and erratic, putting health care in jeopardy.
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Balancing gains and threats in cardiovascular care
Clyde W. Yancy, a cardiologist and medical director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute in Dallas, became national president of the American Heart Association on July 1. He recently spoke with Science News writer Nathan Seppa. Dramatic gains in cardiovascular care in the United States risk being negated by an epidemic of obesity, diabetes […]
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane
Review by Sid Perkins.
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Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race by Wayne Biddle
Review by Rachel Zelkowitz.
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Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher
Reality consists of what you pay attention to, and new research is unraveling how the brain chooses some things over others. Penguin Press, 2009, 256 p., $25.95. Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher
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The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems by Mark Levi
A Pennsylvania State University professor reveals how physics can simplify proofs, illustrate theorems and offer quick mathematical solutions. THE MATHEMATICAL MECHANIC: USING PHYSICAL REASONING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS BY MARK LEVI Princeton Univ., 2009, 186 p., $19.95.
