Science News

All Stories by Science News

  1. Remembering Smell: A Memoir of Losing – and Discovering – the Primal Sense by Bonnie Blodgett

    The author’s experience with anosmia leads her to explore the biology and cultural context of smell. REMEMBERING SMELL: A MEMOIR OF LOSING – AND DISCOVERING – THE PRIMAL SENSE BY BONNIE BLODGETT Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, 256 p., $24.

  2. Explaining Research: How to Reach Key Audiences to Advance Your Work by Dennis Meredith

    Scientists can use new and traditional media to communicate findings to the public. EXPLAINING RESEARCH: HOW TO REACH KEY AUDIENCES TO ADVANCE YOUR WORK BY DENNIS MEREDITH Oxford Univ. Press, 2010, 357 p., $35.

  3. Letters

    Engineering irritation The article “Engineering a cooler Earth” (SN: 6/5/10, p. 16) was incredibly irritating. The solution to global warming is not technology of the type presented, but population and pollution control. You need to start talking about that. The longer we see the problem in technical terms, the less likely we are to even […]

  4. Science Past from the issue of July 2, 1960

    HIGH MILK CONTAMINATION FROM NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS — Radioactive contamination of milk is likely to be “the most widespread hazard” resulting from a nuclear accident or explosion depositing fission products on agricultural land, according to recent studies in England reported in a forthcoming issue of Nature…. Elements that appeared to cause the greatest contamination are the […]

  5. Science Future for July 3, 2010

    August 8 – 12 Geoscientists meet in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, for an international conference. See www.agu.org/meetings/ja10 August 11 – 14 The Cognitive Science Society meets in Portland, Ore. Go to cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2010 September 6 Last day to view the Chicago Field Museum’s exhibit on creatures of the Ice Age. See www.fieldmuseum.org/mammoths

  6. Book Review: The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons

    Review by Bruce Bower.

  7. Book Review: Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service by Mark Pendergrast

    Review by Rachel Zelkowitz.

  8. March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen by John L. Ingraham

    For those who know where to look, microbes abound in daily life. MARCH OF THE MICROBES: SIGHTING THE UNSEEN BY JOHN L. INGRAHAM Belknap Press/Harvard Univ. Press, 2010, 326 p., $28.95.

  9. Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think by Elaine Howard Ecklund

    Through surveys and interviews, a sociologist examines scientists’ views on religion. SCIENCE VS. RELIGION: WHAT SCIENTISTS REALLY THINK BY ELAINE HOWARD ECKLUND Oxford Univ. Press, 2010, 228 p., $27.95.

  10. Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution by George Gessert

    An artist who works with living material considers how aesthetic values influence the ways people breed plants and animals. GREEN LIGHT: TOWARD AN ART OF EVOLUTION BY GEORGE GESSERT MIT Press, 2010, 233 p., $24.95.

  11. Bright Boys by Tom Green

    A writer, producer and playwright tells the story of the first real-time, electronic digital computer and the people who created it. BRIGHT BOYS BY TOM GREEN A.K. Peters, 2010, 327 p., $39.

  12. A Zeptospace Odyssey: A Journey into the Physics of the LHC by Gian Francesco Giudice

    A physicist describes the science behind the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, for a general audience. A ZEPTOSPACE ODYSSEY: A JOURNEY INTO THE PHYSICS OF THE LHC BY GIAN FRANCESCO GIUDICE Oxford Univ. Press, 2010, 276 p., $45.