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  1. SN Special : Darwin turns 200

    This special Web edition of Science News includes expanded versions of articles from the magazine’s print edition plus two additional features, all commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.

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  2. Book Review: Charles Darwin: The ‘Beagle’ Letters by Frederick Burkhardt (Editor)

    Review by Tom Siegfried.

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  3. Book Review: Freaks of Nature – What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution by Mark S. Blumberg

    Review by Elizabeth Quill.

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  4. Science Past for January 31, 1959

    SEA VOICE MAY WARN REDS OF COMING STORMS — By listening to the sea’s voice, Russian scientists say they may be able to detect approaching storms. A Scientific Information Report circulated by the Central Intelligence Agency carries an abstract from an “unevaluated” paper prepared by Ya. Petrov, a Russian scientist. [He] says … V. V. […]

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  5. Letters

    Right-left preference In the article “Body in mind” (SN: 10/25/08, p. 24), Dr. Casasanto speaks of results with people who are left-handed or right-handed. But no mention is made of people who are innately ambidextrous, as in my family. Has he worked with any of these people? What about people who are almost ambidextrous but […]

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  6. Life

    Step-by-step Evolution

    Hard to find, but very fruitful when found, transitional fossils fill in the gaps in the paleontological record.

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  7. Life

    A Most Private Evolution

    The most dramatic examples of the power of evolutionary theory may come from the strange and ugly stuff — biology too dumb to have been designed.

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  8. Life

    Darwin’s Evolution

    Darwin's life and his contribution to science.

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  9. Computing

    Computing Evolution

    Scientists sift through genetic data sets to better map twisting branches in the tree of life.

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  10. Life

    Evolution’s Evolution

    Darwin’s dangerous idea has adapted to modern biology

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  11. Math

    When art and math collide

    An exhibit of mathematical art reveals the aesthetic side of math.

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  12. Humans

    Gamers crave control and competence, not carnage

    Study turns belief commonly held by video game industry, gamers, on its head.

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