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Science Past for December 6, 1958
Find cell “power plants”—Fragments of mitochondria, microscopic “islands” in the cell protoplasm surrounding the nucleus, are helping scientists find out how a cell gets its energy to carry on vital life processes. All energy comes from combustion of foodstuffs, but exactly how the living cell does absorb, store and release energy is unknown. Now, Dr. […]
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Science Future for December 6, 2008
January 3, 2009 The Year of Science kicks off with a launch event in Boston. Visit www.yearofscience2009.org January 28, 2009 The STFC holds a workshop in London on commercial applications of satellite data. Visit www.scitech.ac.uk/KE/Events/Wrks/SatData.aspx March 18, 2009 The National Science Education Leadership Forum will be held in New Orleans. Visit www.nsrconline.org
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Debates over definition of planet continue and inspire
Planetary science is in the midst of a revolution. As recently as the early 1990s, “the planets” consisted of just nine famous objects in our solar system that every school kid learned to recognize by name and appearance. But then, advances in astronomical technology unleashed an explosion of new planetary discoveries on two fronts. One […]
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Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future by Helga Nowotny
Review by Elizabeth Quill.
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California’s Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions by Richard A. Minnich
Review by Rachel Ehrenberg.
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Extreme Birds: The World’s Most Extraordinary and Bizarre Birds by Dominic Couzens
Firefly, 2008, 287 p., $45.
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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen and Harry Lewis
Addison-Wesley, 2008, 366 p., $25.95.
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The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science by Sheilla Jones
Oxford Univ., 2008, 323 p., $24.95.
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Prescriptions for the Mind: A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry by Joel Paris
Oxford Univ., 2008, 247 p., $29.50.
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Coding and Redundancy: Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals by Jack P. Hailman
Harvard Univ., 2008, 257 p., $39.95.
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Sequencing the dead to save the living
Reviving ancient genomes of long-extinct creatures offers a window into past extinctions—and may help prevent future die outs.
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No gene is an island
Even as biologists catalog the discrete parts of life forms, an emerging picture reveals that life’s functions arise from interconnectedness.
