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January-February 2003 Volume 91, Number 1
The light-sensitive portions of rod and cone photoreceptors are shown ...
FEATURE ARTICLES
David Goldes
Experiments in black and white
Arti Rai, Rebecca Eisenberg
Allowing universities to patent the results of government-sponsored research sometimes works against the public interest
Eric Wolanski, Robert Richmond, Laurence McCook, Hugh Sweatman
The survival of coral reefs requires integrated watershed-based management activities and marine conservation
Helga Kolb
Much of the construction of an image takes place in the retina itself through the use of specialized neural circuits
Wendy Freedman
A newly refined value of H0, the expansion rate of the universe, may herald a first step toward a new era of "precision" cosmology
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SCIENTISTS’ BOOKSHELF
James Starrs
Forensic-science potpourri: Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death, by Jessica Snyder Sachs; Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers, by Michael Baden and Marian Roach; Cracking Cases: The Science of Solving Crimes, by Henry C. Lee with Thomas W. O'Neil; The Forensic Science of C.S.I., by Katherine Ramsland; and No Stone Unturned: The True Story of NecroSearch International, the WorldÆs Premier Forensic Investigators, by Steve Jackson
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