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- Life
Time to chill
Well-preserved fossils deposited in an Antarctic lake about 14 million years ago pin down when a large part of the now-icy continent most recently dipped below freezing.
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Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society
by Bernard Chapais, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 349 p., $39.95.
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The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It
by Jonathan Zittrain, Yale Univ. Press, 2008, 342 p., $30.
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One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science!
Eric Yoder and Natalie Yoder, Science, Naturally!, 2008, 176 p., $9.95.
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Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910
by Stephen J. Pyne, Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008, 325 p., $16.
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The Encyclopedia of Earth: A Complete Visual Guide
by Michael Allaby, Robert Coenraads, Stephen Hutchinson, Karen McGhee and John O’Byrne, Univ. of California Press, 2008, 608 p., $39.95.
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- Astronomy
The Universe in a Mirror
The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It.
- Health & Medicine
Nanomagnets tackle cancer
Under the influence of an external magnetic field, tiny magnets act as highly localized space heaters, warming to temperatures that kill adjacent cancer cells.
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In communicating science, Europe envies the U.S.
From the August 16, 2008 issue of Science News.
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Special Music Issue : PDF Download page
All files are saved as PDFs. Please download Adobe’s Acrobat Reader to view these files. Music Special : Complete PackagePDF (1.8 MB) Birth of the beat (Bruce Bower) / Seeking a definition (Elizabeth Quill)/ Not just a pleasant sound (Elizabeth Quill) PDF (797 KB) More than a feeling (Susan Gaidos)/ Moody Tunes (Science News Staff)/ […]
