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- Astronomy
Double the rubble: Nearby star system has two asteroid belts
Epsilon Eridani hosts an inner asteroid belt and planet arranged like those in the solar system.
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- Health & Medicine
Stopping rotavirus before it hits
A vaccine against rotavirus shows potent protection against the diarrhea-causing pathogen in its first year of widespread use.
- Math
A frustrating view of complexity
The unifying theme of complex systems, a researcher argues, is frustration.
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Book Review: Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children by Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff
Review by Dina Fine Maron.
- Physics
Book Review: Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking by Charles Seife
Review by Davide Castelvecchi.
- Physics
Facts and Speculations in Cosmology by Jayant V. Narlikar and Geoffrey Burbidge
Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008, 287 p., $60.
- Tech
Neuroengineering the Future: Virtual Minds and the Creation of Immortality by Bruce F. Katz
Infinity Science Press, 2008, 389 p., $49.95.
- Plants
Don’t Touch That: The Book of Gross, Poisonous, and Downright Icky Plants and Critters by Jeff Day
Chicago Review Press, 2008, 108 p., $9.95.
- Tech
Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency by Kelly A. Joyce
Cornell Univ. Press, 2008, 198 p., $21.95.
- Tech
Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years by Vaclav Smil
MIT Press, 2008, 307 p., $29.95.
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