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Magnets
Magnets do more than keep those shopping lists stuck to the fridge. They generate music in your CD player and store data in your computer and they're key to advances in transportation, medicine, even particle physics. In this hour of Science Friday, magnets and their uses.
Guests:
James Livingston
Senior Lecturer, Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Mass.
Author: DRIVING FORCE: The Natural Magic of Magnets
Jack Crow
Professor of Physics
Florida State University
Director, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Tallahassee, Fla.
PLUS...A call-out on oral HIV transmission with
Ruth Ruprecht
Chief, Laboratory of Viral Pathogenesis
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Mass.
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