By downloading a screen saver from the United Devices Cancer Research Project, you could help find a cure for cancer. The project aims to recruit the help of computer users worldwide to identify which molecules among millions of candidates could form the basis of new, cancer-busting drugs.
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Lars Onsager, whose pioneering work on thermodynamics earned him a Nobel Prize in 1968. H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins and Michael E. Fisher’s engaging account of Onsager’s life and research is among the biographical memoirs available online from the National Academy of Sciences.
The US government has created a new Web site for making scientific and technical information available to the public. FirstGov for Science provides an online gateway to all 14 of the government’s science and technology organizations.
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