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  1. Earth

    Storm Center

    Scientists aboard planes that flew into the cores of Katrina and other hurricanes in 2005 collected unprecedented data on the structure and development of the massive storms.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Humans

    Letters from the June 23, 2007, issue of Science News

    Bad start In “Violent Justice: Adult system fails young offenders” (SN: 4/21/07, p. 243), an association is found between young offenders being tried as adults and increased criminal offenses later. The implication is made that one thing causes the other. Perhaps a better interpretation of the data would be that, because not every young offender […]

    By Science News
  3. Humans

    From the June 12, 1937, issue

    Waterflow downstream of a dam, the shape of an asteroid, and connections between wallpaper patterns and crystal structures.