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  1. Materials Science

    The American Physical Society Meeting

    Get your daily physics news here from the March meeting of the American Physical Society.

  2. Letters

    Impossible view In “Milky Way puts on weight” (SN: 1/31/09, p. 8), you claim to show an image of the Milky Way. This image cannot be real. Worse, it creates misconceptions: As a college educator, I find that most students actually believe NASA has launched probes outside of the Milky Way to take pictures of […]

  3. Science Past for March 28, 1959

    [Patients] to run own wing in hospital — A new wing which is being added to an English mental hospital will be run entirely by the patients. Doctors and nurses will enter it only by invitation. Administration will be by a committee of patients, which will have a room for meetings…. Patients will themselves decide […]

  4. Book Review: Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by Riki Ott

    Review by Laura Sanders.

  5. Haywired: Pointless (Yet Awesome) Projects for the Electronically Inclined by Mike Rigsby

    Make a smiling picture frame, a talking alarm, a no-battery electric car and more with this how-to guide for hobbyists. Chicago Review, 2009, 187 p., $16.95 Haywired: Pointless (Yet Awesome) Projects for the Electronically Inclined by Mike Rigsby

  6. A Primer for Mathematics Competitions by Alexander Zawaira and Gavin Hitchcock

    A guide to acquiring the mental equipment and problem-solving agility needed to become a successful mathlete. Oxford Univ., 2009, 344 p., $45. A Primer for Mathematics Competitions by Alexander Zawaira and Gavin Hitchcock

  7. The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider by Don Lincoln

    A Fermilab scientist conveys the excitement surrounding the LHC. Johns Hopkins Univ., 2009, 172 p., $25 The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider by Don Lincoln

  8. The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers by Andrea Tone

    The story of America’s shift to synthetic solutions for personal angst. Basic Books, 2009, 298 p., $26.95

  9. Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic by Frederick Grinnell

    A scientist attempts to demystify the scientific method. Oxford Univ., 2009, 230 p., $27.95 Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic by Frederick Grinnell

  10. Science & Society

    The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg by Robert P. Crease

  11. Climate

    CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge by Tyler Volk

  12. A Very Improbable Story by Edward Einhorn and Adam Gustavson

    A cat named Odds plays games of probability with a young boy in this children’s book. Charlesbridge, 2008, 32 p., $16.95 A Very Improbable Story by Edward Einhorn and Adam Gustavson