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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 […]
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‘Discounting’ the future cost of climate change
Economists develop new methods to quantify the trade-off between spending now and spending later.
