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  1. Space

    The Status Quark

    Murray Gell-Mann reflects on matter’s building blocks and scientists’ resistance to new ideas.

    By Tom Siegfried
  2. Animals

    Oops, missed that fossil iridescence

    Nanostructures on a preserved feather offer the first fossil evidence of bird colors not from pigments, a new study says.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Earth

    A trip to the garbage patch

    Scientists bring back samples from the oceanic garbage patch off the coast of California.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg

  4. Science Future for September 12, 2009

    September 23–26 The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology marks Darwin’s bicentennial in Bristol, England. See www.vertpaleo.org/meetings October 11–17 Celebrate Earth Science Week with the American Geological Institute.