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What's New in Access Science New Images New Video New Articles News from Science News   AccessScience Newsletter - 2010 Issue 5 What's New in AccessScience The 2010 Nobel Prizes AccessScience celebrates the 2010 Nobel Prizes with special content and articles on this years Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine prize-winners. Physics: One word: "Graphene" Chemistry: "This is fundamental carbon chemistry at its best." Medicine: British researcher, Robert Evans, Developer of in-vitro fertilization Video Biographies AccessScience and the Franklin Institute team up to present an ongoing series of informative video biographies on groundbreaking scientists. Picture This Tracking a Monster: Hurricane Igor With the end of hurricane season approaching, this is a good time to look back at a powerful storm in action—in this case, Hurricane Igor, whose immense fury calmed only slightly as it glanced off the eastern coast of North America in mid-September, 2010.   Watch and Learn W. Richard Peltier, winner, 2010 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science Watch and learn how Dr. Peltier made fundamental advances in the understanding of Earth Systems, by demonstrating profound interconnections between surface climate variability and the internal properties and dynamics of the solid earth.   Our name says it all: AccessScience To make AccessScience easier and more pleasurable to use (in a word, "accessible"), we're committed to continually upgrading its look and functionality. Keep an eye out for these and other recent enhancements: • Original publication date, and MLA/APA citation-style guides at bottom of each article • Clearer fonts for better rendering of Greek letters and special characters. • Expanded "For further study" content, topical links, and feature-packed sidebars next to each article • Bibliography and Additional Reading sections enhanced with live Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)—references that link directly to journal articles and other illuminating resources (Learn more about DOIs) Featured Articles • Underground Mining • Antarctica • Carnivoran Evolution • (LED)Light-Emitting Diode • Radio-Echo Sounding • Platypus   Headlines from Science News • India yields fossil trove in amber • Anticancer Protein Might Combat HIV • Sailing Toward the Island of Stability • "Fossil" Mountains Entombed by Ice • Climate Changes, and There Goes the Neighborhood Additional Resources • Library Resource Center • AccessScience on Twitter • AccessScience Newsletter • McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition • McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Sixth Edition • McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2010 • McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Seventh Edition About AccessScience | Subscriptions/Free Trials | Demo | Contact Us | Help | Privacy Notice | Terms of Use | Additional Credits and Copyright Information | MH Professional Bookstore Copyright © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use and Notice. You have received this message because you opted-in to receive information and special offers from McGraw-Hill Professional. We hope you enjoyed receiving this message. However, if you would like to unsubscribe from receiving emails from McGraw-Hill Professional, please follow this link. UNSUBSCRIBE If you would like to update your preferences, please visit http://www.mhprofessional.com/account/. You can also write to us at: Privacy Officer, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2 Penn Plaza, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10121-2298. View our Corporate Privacy Policy at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/privacy.html. To learn more about how McGraw-Hill Professional applies this Policy, you can contact privacy@mhedu.com. Copyright © 2010; The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.