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  1. Health & Medicine

    One problem, many paths

    Autism’s many genetic players may act through common networks.

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  2. BOOK REVIEW: Eruptions That Shook the World by Clive Oppenheimer

    Review by Alexandra Witze.

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  3. BOOK REVIEW: Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants by Richard Mabey

    Review by Sid Perkins.

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  4. Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer, and Buildby Peter Goodfellow

    A browsable, amply illustrated overview of avian construction from mere scrapes in the sand to edible structures people prize for soup. Princeton Univ. Press, 2011, 160 p., $27.95

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  5. The Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart

    In this engaging overview, a mathematician describes how the field of biomathematics is answering key questions about the natural world and the origins of life.