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  1. Tradition, innovation and hope in new year for science

    With this issue, Science News journeys into its 90th year. In 1921, Science Service was founded to share the unfolding new world of scientific discovery with America. Initially a mimeographed sheet known as the Science News-Letter, first published in 1922, the publication reported on such historic events and discoveries as the Scopes “Monkey Trial” in […]

    By Elizabeth Marincola
  2. Humans

    Google project launches new field of culture study

    An analysis of digitized books probes language change, collective memory and other cultural developments from 1800 to 2000.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Health & Medicine

    No fear

    A woman who lacks a basic brain structure, the amygdala, couldn’t be frightened no matter how hard researchers tried.