... KAMAJIAN
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The Search for Alien ... ground reflections.
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The Search for Alien Life
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... WAR: THE SE-
CRET HISTORY OF THE GER-
MAN BOMB. Thomas Powers. Al-
fred A. Knopf, 1993.
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The Science of War: Nuclear History
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along—but had to
by William Lanouette
Bomb
The
and the
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O...
... anoth-
er and the rest of Europe by the retreat of
the sea to form the backbone of the Ital-
ian peninsula. Large-bodied and small-
brained, this creature is so unusual look-
ing that it is not ... Oreopithe-
cus was more specialized for dining on
leaves than was any other Old World fos-
sil monkey or ape. It survived very late
into the Miocene in the dense and isolat-
ed fore...
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the notion of harnessing nanotechnology
for electronic ... and
shape for the nanodrive. The “form fac-
tor” can be all-important in the con-
sumer electronics marketplace, speci -
cally in the mobile area, which we h...
... oxygen-rich blood
to the muscles of the heart. He
needs coronary artery bypass sur-
gery but cannot afford the oper-
ation and the lengthy hospital
stay required. (In the U.S., for example, the ... the
surgeon from Argentina, gave the beat-
ing-heart approach another boost. He
pioneered an operation involving a lim-
ited eight-centimeter incision be- tween
the ribs on the...
... be slow (or may not hap-
pen at all).
If the immune response to conserved epi-
topes is not strong enough to control the vi-
ral population on its own, but the combined
effort of the responses ... that, once in-
duced by a vaccine, would protect some-
one against infection. But they keep com-
ing up empty-handed, which leaves them
with no road map to guide them in the
search fo...
... EXPLOSIONS
illuminate newly
formed craters on Etna’s northern flank.
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In 1996 a French-Italian research team
consisting ... Ionian Sea under the Cala-
brian block (the southernmost part of the
Italian mainland). Schiano and Clocchiat-
ti are convinced that the similarity of the...
... Press,1998.
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excited chemists of the time, as they ap-
peared to be the very essence of the sub-
stance ... vegetables. Sug-
ar appeared only at the end of a meal.
What happened? Economic consider-
ations cannot account for the differ-
ence: for the upper class, mo...
... involved, we cannot measure the un-
known polarization of a single photon with certainty.
LAURIE GRACE
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neously contains all the in-
formation from Alice’s orig-
inal, transported there by
quantum mechanics. Yet to
know how to read that information,
Bob must wait for...