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- Chemistry
Yeast bred to bear artificial vanilla
Researchers have co-opted fungi to produce the flavor more efficiently.
- Health & Medicine
Scary data about bum medical diagnoses
Doctors' misdiagnoses are frequently misdiagnosed — at least before it's too late.
- Humans
Obama pledges 3 percent of GDP for research
BLOG: Highlights of what the president announced to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Science needs ace communicators and politicians
In February, Alice Huang became president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The renowned virologist began her career at Harvard in 1971, eventually becoming director of the laboratories of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital Boston. After a stint at New York University, she moved to the California Institute of Technology in 1997 […]
- Life
Heat sensors guide insects to a hot meal
Bugs home in on seeds by detecting infrared radiation.
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Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future by Helga Nowotny
Review by Elizabeth Quill.
- Health & Medicine
How the body rubs out West Nile virus
Tests in mice show how the immune system tracks down cells infected with West Nile virus, findings that might explain why some old people fare worst from the virus.
- Astronomy
They’re calling Obama the ‘science guy’
Speakers at a science forum offered support for the thesis that researchers have found a big ally in the new president.
- Earth
A hundred new nukes?
Here are some issues to contemplate while deciding whether to welcome the nuclear-power renaissance that Sen. Alexander has just proposed.
- Space
The Status Quark
Murray Gell-Mann reflects on matter’s building blocks and scientists’ resistance to new ideas.
- Math
The four color problem gets a sharp new hue
Mathematicians find new answers to the still puzzling theorem that four colors suffice to color any map.
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