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  1. Tech

    SESAME opens doors to international collaboration

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  2. Book Review: Food Bites: The Science of the Foods We Eat by Richard W. Hartel and AnnaKate Hartel

    Review by Dina Fine Maron.

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  3. Humans

    Book Review: Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett

    Review by Bruce Bower.

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  4. Earth

    Planet Earth: An Illustrated History

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  5. Genetics

    Genomes and What to Make of Them by Barry Barnes and John Dupré

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  6. Animals

    Hanging with Bats: Ecobats, Vampires, and Movie Stars by Karen Taschek

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  7. Science & Society

    Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L. Park

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  8. Physics

    The Jinn from Hyperspace and Other Scriblings — Both Serious and Whimsical by Martin Gardner

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  9. Science Future for January 17, 2009

    January 25–April 5 Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Visit www.pmcaonline.org February 5–7 Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2009, “Towards Copenhagen: An equitable and ethical approach” to be held in New Delhi. Visit dsds.teriin.org/2009/index.htm February 15–21 Engineers Week 2009. Visit www.eweek.org

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  10. Science Past for January 17, 1959

    PROPOSE CRATER THEORY — Huge bubbles of gas bursting through the moon’s surface may be the cause of lunar craters. Two British scientists proposed in a new “blowhole theory” that gases trapped under the surface when suddenly set free would form craters resembling those observed on the moon. Among other current theories are those attributing […]

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  11. Letters

    Reader letters from the Jan. 17 Science News.

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  12. Neuroscience

    It’s written all over your face

    To potential mates, your mug may reveal more than you think.

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