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- Earth
Seafloor chronicles
Survey of ocean floor reveals long history, from a geological fault to the wreckage of the Lusitania.
- Space
Makemake makes the list
The International Astronomical Union announces name of a fourth dwarf planet.
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Letters
From the August 2, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Life
Magnetic sense linked to molecule
Fruit fly experiments shed light on animals’ use of Earth’s magnetic field for orientation and navigation.
- Math
A building of bubbles
Math Trek: The National Aquatics Center in Beijing, newly built for the Olympics, is a glowing cube of bubbles. The mathematics behind it are built around Lord Kelvin's tetrakaidecahedra and the physics of foam.
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Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology
edited by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Yale Univ. Press, 2008, 416 p., $40.
- Agriculture
Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa
by Robert Paarlberg, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 235 p., $24.95.
- Life
The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and Their Patients
Lucy H. Spelman and Ted Y. Mashima (eds.), Delacorte Press, 2008, 312 p., $22.
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- Health & Medicine
The Handy Anatomy Answer Book
Naomi E. Balaban and James E. Bobick, Visible Ink Press, 2008, 376 p., $21.95.
- Humans
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
Richard Preston, Random House, 2008, 240 p., $26.
- Math
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Leonard Mlodinow, Pantheon Books, 2008, 272 p., $24.95.
