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  1. Humans

    Letters from the March 29, 2008, issue of Science News

    Why switch to grass? Regarding “Switchgrass may yield biofuel bounty” (SN: 1/19/08, p. 46): Distilleries have been around since the dawn of time, including barleycorn (whiskey), maize (whiskey), potatoes (vodka), sugarcane (rum), and arcane brews distilled from beets, bread crumbs, and bamboo. The ethanol molecule cares not one wit about its particular provenance, so what […]

    By Science News
  2. Math

    Sacred Geometry

    Beginning in the 17th century, the Japanese adorned temples with beautiful wooden tablets that depicted mathematical questions and theorems, apparently as offerings to the gods.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  3. Humans

    From the March 19, 1938, issue

    A unique, parabolic motion picture, an aircraft pioneer contemplates the future of flight, and a formula to link large and small.