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Science Future
June 30–July 3 The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. Visit www.summerscience.org.uk/ July 6–10 Growers and researchers gather in Romania, for the European Association for Potato Research’s four-day congress. Visit www.eapr2008-brasov.com August 1 Total solar eclipse visible in parts of Canada, Greenland, Russia and China. Visit eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html SN Onlinewww.sciencenews.org
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Challenges to building a disaster-resilient nation
Comment from David Applegate, chair of the National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction and senior science adviser for earthquake and geologic hazards at the U.S.Geological Survey.
- Health & Medicine
Nabbing suspicious SNPs
Scientists search the whole genome for clues to common diseases.
- Space
Sizing up black holes
ST. LOUIS—Astronomers are all wound up over a new method for sizing up supermassive black holes found at the cores of galaxies. The method allows researchers for the first time to estimate the weight of these black holes in spiral galaxies up to 8 billion light-years away, or halfway across the universe, reports Marc Seigar […]
- Health & Medicine
Thanks for the future memories
To the brain, remembering the past and visualizing the future look surprisingly similar.
- Chemistry
Small, But Super
These 'atoms' can't leap tall buildings in a single bound, but they have special powers.
- Space
Outsiders look in
Astronomers stitch together the most detailed infrared picture of the inner Milky Way.
- Math
Gender equality closes math gap
Research shows that the greater the gender equality in a country, the more equal the math scores between boys and girls.
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- Health & Medicine
BOOK REVIEW | Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer
Review by Nathan Seppa.
- Health & Medicine
BOOK LIST | Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me about Management
The former CEO of Amgen narrates the company’s rise from start-up to biotech giant. Harvard Business School Press, 2008, 288 p., $29.95 SCIENCE LESSONS: WHAT THE BUSINESS OF BIOTECH TAUGHT ME ABOUT MANAGEMENT
