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Tech
Bias, quakes and viruses, oh my!
Researchers present findings at the annual New Horizons in Science meeting.
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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.
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Physics
Facts and Speculations in Cosmology by Jayant V. Narlikar and Geoffrey Burbidge
Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008, 287 p., $60.
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Tech
Neuroengineering the Future: Virtual Minds and the Creation of Immortality by Bruce F. Katz
Infinity Science Press, 2008, 389 p., $49.95.
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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.
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Tech
Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency by Kelly A. Joyce
Cornell Univ. Press, 2008, 198 p., $21.95.
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Tech
Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years by Vaclav Smil
MIT Press, 2008, 307 p., $29.95.
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Health & Medicine
Society for Neuroscience annual meeting
Daily reports from Science News staff from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.
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U.S. must invest in technologies to avoid energy crisis
Steven Chu, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Nobel laureate in physics, has advocated for energy thrift. During a September visit to Washington, D.C., he spoke with senior editor Janet Raloff about how he believes the United States can tackle what he sees as a looming energy crisis. You’ve said the United States […]