AccessScience 2011, Issue 2

AccessScience Newsletter - 2011 Issue 2

What's New in AccessScience:

We're always looking for ways to improve the content and function of AccessScience. For example, our improved search utility - now with live filtering. In the search box, a drop-down menu filters results by category and content types. And there's even enhanced autosuggest to make misspellings a relic of the past. Visit today to see these and other enhancements.

 

Medal

Franklin Institute Awards Winners

Spend some time getting to know the latest winners of the
Franklin Institute Awards in physics, chemistry, computer, life science and engineering.

Dinosaurs

Exploration—a 'Saur Subject

Dinosaurs are a diverse and varied group of animals. Paleontologists working on every continent have identified more than 500 distinct genera and more than 1,000 different species of dinosaurs. Represented on every continent, dinosaur fossil remains provide important clues into the history of animals.
Your exploration of dinosaurs begins here..

New Video: Meet Shafrira Goldwasser: The [Figurative] Mother of All Cryptographers

Shafrira Goldwasser, is one of the founders of modern cryptography, a field that evolved from simple ciphers to complex mathematical processes to encode anything
from secret messages to the transfer of financial information on the Internet. She is the winner of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computing and Cognitive Science.

JoAnne Stubbe

Featured Articles

 

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Galaxy evolution in the early universe

 

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Recent advances in tornado observations

 

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STIM family of proteins

 

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Nuclear reactor

 

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Nuclear power

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Long noncoding RNAs (long ncRNAs)

Spiral Galaxy

GiantAnts

Headlines from Science News

 

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Giant ants once roamed Wyoming

 

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Supermassive black hole rises and shines

 

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Idling jets pollute more than thought

 

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Half-asleep rats look wide awake

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Nanotubes coming to a screen near you

Additional Resources

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Library Resource Center

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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition

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McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2011

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McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Sixth Edition

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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition

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