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  1. Earth

    Planet Earth: An Illustrated History

  2. Genetics

    Genomes and What to Make of Them by Barry Barnes and John Dupré

  3. Animals

    Hanging with Bats: Ecobats, Vampires, and Movie Stars by Karen Taschek

  4. Science & Society

    Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L. Park

  5. Physics

    The Jinn from Hyperspace and Other Scriblings — Both Serious and Whimsical by Martin Gardner

  6. Science Future for January 17, 2009

    January 25–April 5 Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Visit www.pmcaonline.org February 5–7 Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2009, “Towards Copenhagen: An equitable and ethical approach” to be held in New Delhi. Visit dsds.teriin.org/2009/index.htm February 15–21 Engineers Week 2009. Visit www.eweek.org

  7. Science Past for January 17, 1959

    PROPOSE CRATER THEORY — Huge bubbles of gas bursting through the moon’s surface may be the cause of lunar craters. Two British scientists proposed in a new “blowhole theory” that gases trapped under the surface when suddenly set free would form craters resembling those observed on the moon. Among other current theories are those attributing […]

  8. Letters

    Reader letters from the Jan. 17 Science News.

  9. Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek

    Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek

  10. Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

    Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

  11. Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes

    Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes

  12. Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett

    Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett