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Quest for knowledge

Research insights from Antarctica to the kitchen cabinets, outer space to the womb

February 18, 2008

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A fundamental aim of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society, is to show that science isn’t just weird stuff happening in a lab somewhere. It’s the neverceasing quest to explain our world and inhabit it more comfortably. Here, Globe reporters take a look at some of the ideas presented by AAAS members, whose annual meeting ends a five-day run today in Boston.... (Full article: 2091 words)

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