AAAS: Making the annual pilgrimage

Preliminary program aaas annual meeting, Boston, massachusetts.

New AAAS president emphasizes making the case for science.

Susan Hockfield is well known for her role in launching the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the MIT Energy Initiative, while she served as the research university’s first female and first biologist president. Calling together experts from a diverse range of extremely specialized fields, as well as orchestrating fundraising efforts ...

AAAS: Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division 40th Annual Meeting.

equation for the dispersion of a small zone of vapor introduced in an instant at one point in the pipe. Measurement of the dispersion some 30 kilometers away showed the plate height to be smaller by many powers of 10 than would be expected if turbulent flow did not occur. More evidence that columns performed better than would be expected at very fast flow rates came from J. C. Sternberg (Beckma...

AAAS Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois 26-31 December 1970.

AAAS annual meeting. A first look at a comet's dust.

Potentially shaking basic assumptions of marine biologists, the first large-scale ecotoxicity study of coral has identified a new and surprising suspect for what may be killing reefs worldwide: organic carbon in the form of simple sugar molecules. Coral reefs are under global assault; Caribbean reefs, for example, have lost 80% of their coral cover in the last 3 decades. As coastal populations ...