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Math Trek: The Noisy Game of Baseball
Predicting a baseball player’s future batting average (and many other things) is not as simple as relying on past performance, mathematicians say.
Food for Thought: The Costs of Meat and Fish
The animal protein in our diets can have a high environmental cost.
Timeline: From the April 9, 1938, issue
Mining limestone to make steel, a bright little bulb, setting a new record on the sun and finding buried thermos bottles.
Science Safari: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary . . .
Letter from the Publisher
is about to pause briefly before presenting itself to you in a new form, both in print and online.
Antibiotic Alligator: Promising proteins lurk in reptile blood
Scientists are zeroing in on alligator blood proteins that show promise for fighting disease-causing microbes.
Einstein’s Invisible Hand: Is relativity making metal act like a noble gas?
Element 114 should be chemically similar to lead, but controversial experimental data shows it behaves more like a noble gas, potentially subverting the periodic table’s structure.
Web Extra: First Frog without Lungs
An aquatic frog in fast-flowing water in Borneo turns out to be the first frog species with no lungs.
All in the Family
Contrary to popular belief, species of salamanders, birds, beetles and fish prefer to mate with close kin.
Letters from the April 12, 2008, issue of Science News [Subscriber Only]