Science in the News

By cagapakis on September 13, 2010.

The new season of Science in the News starts next week with a great schedule of science lectures by Harvard grad students free and open to the public. If you're in the Boston area, definitely check it out!

Here's the schedule:

September 22: Evidence-based Medicine: A Case Study of Vaccines and Autism
September 29: Bots That Mimic Bugs: Flying, Crawling, and Squishy Robots
October 6: You Are What Your Mother Ate: The New Science of Epigenetics
October 13: Beyond Agribusiness: New and Old Ways to Grow Food
October 20: The Laser Turns 50: A Brief History and New Frontiers
October 27: Forget-Me-Not: How Memories Are Formed and Lost
November 3: Our Microbial Organ: The Good and Bad Bugs of the Human Gut
November 10: The Science of Dogs: History, Psychology, and Genetics of Man's Best Friend
November 17: Star Power: New Ways to Harvest Energy from our Sun

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