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- Health & Medicine
Immune cells show long-term memory
Survivors of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic still make antibodies against the virus, revealing a long-lived immunity previously thought impossible.
- Space
The great planet debate
New suggestions for defining a planet would put Pluto back on the list. Scientists discuss the International Astronomical Union’s definition during the Great Planet Debate Conference.
- Math
Do subatomic particles have free will?
Math Trek: If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove.
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Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art
by J.R. Leibowitz, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2008, 160 p., $24.95.
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Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 384 p., $45.
- Science & Society
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science
An Astronomer Among the American Romantics.
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Letters
From the August 30, 2008 issue of Science News.
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Pop chirp bite crunch chew
The ultrasonic din of dying trees inspires a new kind of research to save forests from beetle attacks — and battle climate change
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Evolution’s Ear
Recent changes in hearing-related genes may have influenced language development
- Physics
Stars ablaze in other skies
A new study suggests that a surprising number of universes, even those with laws of physics different from those in our universe, can still support stars.
- Space
Sharpshooting Enceladus
Swooping within 49 kilometers of Saturn’s tiny, geologically active moon Enceladus, the Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed the locations of the icy geysers that erupt from the southern hemisphere of this wrinkled moon’s surface.
