As 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first use of the telescope and the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, the New Scientist asked a bunch of thinkers to decide who was more important.
One showed us that we inhabit a tiny speck orbiting a tiny speck, all but lost among billions of specks in a galaxy (says philosopher Daniel Dennett). The other struck at the root of what it means to be human (says physicist Paul Davies).
This blog adds: one became the subject of a great play, the other didn't.
How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic
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As the US grapples with an ongoing bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle, the
country’s health agencies are ramping up surveillance efforts and working
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