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  1. Humans

    Nation needs recovery plan for science faculty jobs

    Over the past few months, many graduate students and postdocs have been receiving letters from department chairs apologetically explaining that the faculty job search at Institution X has been canceled. State and private universities are facing declining tax revenues and falling endowments, and are unwilling to raise tuition on newly impoverished families. From Harvard to […]

    By David Spergel
  2. Life

    Darwin: The reluctant mathematician

    Despite disliking mathematics, the great biologist inadvertently advanced statistics.

    By Julie Rehmeyer

  3. Receding glaciers erase records of climate history

    For three decades, Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University has been monitoring the health of glaciers atop mountains from Peru to China .