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  1. Health & Medicine

    Bad air for growing brains and minds

    Preliminary evidence suggests that children’s regular exposure to heavy air pollution can be accompanied by brain inflammation and lowered scores on intelligence tests.

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  2. Letters

    From the October 25 issue of Science News magazine.

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  3. U.S. must invest in technologies to avoid energy crisis

    Steven Chu, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Nobel laureate in physics, has advocated for energy thrift. During a September visit to Washington, D.C., he spoke with senior editor Janet Raloff about how he believes the United States can tackle what he sees as a looming energy crisis. You’ve said the United States […]

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  4. Book Review: The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind

    Review by Tom Siegfried.