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New York Times sounds an alarm: “Extreme weather rages worldwide”

SCIENCE AND THE MEDIA: Story plus front page photo present dramatic examples of unexpected heat, floods, and cold.

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Humanities envy

DAYSIDE: Steve Jobs was not alone in seeing the value of combining science and technology with the humanities.

Threading DNA through a nanopore

PHYSICS UPDATE: If a nanopore is sufficiently wide, folded DNA molecules can squeeze through. But where do the folds form?

Decades of US carbon dioxide emissions could be stored in domestic oil and gas fields

POLITICS AND POLICY: A new report examines the capacity, feasibility, and cost of various underground sites for sequestering atmospheric CO2.

When you can't see the volcano for the clouds

DOWN TO EARTH: Infrasound monitoring detects volcanic eruptions and contributes to public warning system.

Questions and answers with Steven Gimbel

BOOKENDS: A philosopher of science sets out to discover what role, if any, religion or culture played in Albert Einstein's conception of his relativity theory.

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