Catálogo de publicaciones - revistas

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week that the U.S. Department of the Interior, which sells the oil and gas leases on the outer continental shelf, announced that the U.S. Geological Survey would carry out a scientific review of drilling in the Chukchi Sea by 1 October, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Marcia McNutt oversees what she likes to call "the nation's only integrated natural science agency," whose remit includes estimating how much natural gas awaits discovery, figuring out why mixed-gender fish are showing up in rivers, and calculating the odds of sleeping volcanoes erupting. McNutt wants to increase the visibility of the venerable U.S. Geological Survey.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported this week that good dogs live longer, the mystery of the zodiacal light has been solved, microbes can survive in large numbers at temperatures as low as -80°C, and a quantum cryptography system has been developed that's fast enough to encrypt a video transmission, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>If passed, two bills in Congress would require chemical companies to provide much more safety data to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The proposed legislation also expands EPA's role in determining safety, which some say could drive advances in toxicological research.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A decade in the making, the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) hopes to set a new standard for tracking long-term ecological change across the United States.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Those looking for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations should cast a bigger net, says Paul Davies, head of a group figuring out what to do if the search succeeds.</jats:p>

<jats:p>As rates of behavior-related diseases rise, China's medical community looks for ways to change attitudes and advance preventive care.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Raising the medieval <jats:italic>Nanhai 1</jats:italic> wreck was a technical tour de force; now archaeologists are preparing to take the vessel apart plank by plank. </jats:p>