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  1. Life

    Eat less, weigh more

    Separate neurons in the nematode brain control eating and fat-building. The discovery may help explain some mysteries of obesity.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Space

    In the moon’s shadow

    NASA broadcasts Aug. 1 total solar eclipse.

    By Ashley Yeager
  3. Life

    Time to chill

    Well-preserved fossils deposited in an Antarctic lake about 14 million years ago pin down when a large part of the now-icy continent most recently dipped below freezing.

    By Sid Perkins

  4. Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society

    by Bernard Chapais, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 349 p., $39.95.

    By Science News

  5. The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It

    by Jonathan Zittrain, Yale Univ.