Posts Tagged ‘science’

Mind-expanding science reads – nonfiction picks for 9/4/10

Stephen Hawking’s new book called The Grand Design comes out next week, and today I finished putting together some science reading lists for physics, astronomy, and mathematics. So in honor of these two (admittedly unrelated) events, this week’s list of nonfiction picks are all about science.

Worm-Inspired Superglue

Worm-Inspired Superglueby Rachel Ehrenberg Week of August 16, 2009 Material may one day paste together bones in the body… To access the full article

Duck! Asteroids and other space objects in the library

Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Death by black hole, and other cosmic quandaries (a great book, by the way – more on his books later in the post), but I was intrigued when I saw a link to NASA’s newest website for the public.