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  1. Contemplating future plans for particle colliders

    Caltech physicist Barry Barish is the director of the global design effort for the International Linear Collider, which is currently in the planning stages. If built, the ILC would smash together electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons, at nearly the speed of light. The ILC would complement the Large Hadron Collider, a European proton collider […]

    By Barry Barish
  2. Science & Society

    Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

    In her new book, science writer Rebecca Skloot describes how Henrietta Lacks' cells changed the face of modern medical science.

    By Laura Sanders

  3. Book Review: Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters

    Review by Bruce Bower.