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  1. BOOK REVIEW: The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future by W. Patrick McCray

    Review by Sid Perkins.

  2. Fifty Machines That Changed the Course of History by Eric Chaline

    Review key inventions of the 19th and 20th centuries, from bicycles to the Underwood typewriter. Firefly, 2012, 224 p., $29.95

  3. Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us by Donald K. Yeomans

    The head of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office describes the planet’s risk of being smacked by a comet or asteroid and what can be done to prevent such a fate. Prince­ton Univ., 2012, 172 p., $24.95

  4. A Little History of Science by William Bynum

    This abridged version of the human search for knowledge covers major discoveries in medicine, astronomy and other fields. Yale Univ., 2012, 263 p., $25

  5. Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World by Steven Mithen

    Learn how humans have managed water throughout history and how shortages have driven conflict and social change. Harvard Univ., 2012, 347 p., $25.95

  6. The Science of Consequences: How They Affect Genes, Change the Brain, and Impact Our World by Susan M. Schneider

    A biopsychologist examines how the brain shapes beha­vior by learning from the consequences of actions. Prometheus, 2012, 383 p., $21

  7. 2013 AAAS meeting

    Highlights from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, February 14-18, 2013.

  8. Science & Society

    Science News at the 2013 AAAS meeting

    A round-up of Science News coverage of the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held February 14–18, 2013 in Boston.

  9. SN Online

    FRAME OF MIND Laura Sanders ponders turning off depression instantaneously in her column “A new generation of antidepressants could help patients feel better faster.” A. Muto et al/Current Biology 2013 BODY & BRAIN See a video of nerves firing in a fish larva’s brain (below) as it hunts in “As fish watch prey, researchers watch […]

  10. Science Future for February 23, 2013

    March 23 See rare whale specimens, watch a re-creation of a whale hunting a squid and learn how scientists track these giants at the new Whales: Giants of the Deep exhibition at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History. See bit.ly/SFamnhwhale March 28 The Russian Soyuz spacecraft launches from Kazakhstan carrying three crew members […]

  11. Science Past from the issue of February 23, 1963

    NEW AIR TRANSPORT — Instead of trains on railroads and trucks on expensive highways, the less developed countries in the future are likely to use for their transport hybrid helicopter-airplanes that need only simple landing fields and no roads or rails between. This possibility was offered … by Dr. Phillip R. Carlson of the Lockheed […]

  12. Letters

    Dark matter enlightened Tom Siegfried’s article on dark matter “Light in the Dark,” (SN: 1/12/13, p. 18) reminded me of the 19th century search for the luminiferous ether. One can only wonder if history will repeat itself in the 21st century search for dark matter.Jeffery Miller, Los Angeles, Calif. The difference is that the ether […]