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  1. The incredible shrinking solar cell

    With lilliputian collectors, almost anything could be sun-powered.

    By Janet Raloff

  2. Science Future for July 31, 2010

    August 14 – 17The American Sociological Association meets in Atlanta. See www.asanet.org/meetings August 30 – September 3Researchers and policy makers meet in Boston to discuss environmental factors affecting penguin population health. See www.penguinconference.org September 1A psychologist lectures in New York City on the connection between beauty and happiness. See www.nyas.org/events

    By Science News

  3. Science Past  from the issue of July 30, 1960

    LIP-SMACKING GRASSHOPPER — A grasshopper with a talent for lip-smacking has turned out to be quite an unusual insect. Paratylotropidia brunneri Scudder is the first insect known to communicate over fairly long distances by producing an audible sound from the mouth — literally smacking its lips….