AAAS Members Receive Nobel Prizes for Medicine, Chemistry, Peace

Three of the six researchers who received Nobel Prizes for science this year are AAAS members, as is former Vice President Al Gore Jr., who shared the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to raise awareness about global climate change

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Collection of Fiber Art Demonstrates Processes and Materials Shared with Science

It can withstand at least a decade's worth of foot and paw traffic from you, your family and your pets. It repels red wine and spaghetti sauce, and it resists scratches. You might not think that such a durable material could also be hung on a wall and admired as art, but that is precisely what fiber artist Joyce Barker-Schwartz intends for her acrylic-coated canvas rugs.

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Images from Mars Suggest Evidence of Water Hard to Find

A series of articles in a Science special section suggest that finding liquid water on the Red Planet may be more difficult than previously thought.

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Chinese Academy of Sciences Delegation Visits AAAS to Learn about Science Publishing

With China's strengthening efforts to boost science development, officials from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) visited AAAS headquarters to learn about operations at Science, the peer-reviewed journal published by AAAS. Meeting with senior AAAS staff including AAAS Chief International Officer Vaughan Turekian and Science Executive Editor Monica Bradford, the delegation focused their 22 August visit on how Science runs its manuscript submission system, editorial review boards, news sections, and media outreach.

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