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  1. Cycling Science: How Rider and Machine Work Together by Max Glaskin

    The physics of two-wheeled locomotion gets deep coverage in this illustrated overview for the bike-obsessed. Univ. of Chicago, 2012, 192 p., $30

  2. Walking Sideways: The Remarkable World of Crabs by Judith S. Weis

    A biologist pens a tribute to crabs, exploring everything from their life cycles and behavior to the many ways humans eat them. Cornell Univ., 2012, 224 p., $29.95

  3. Science & Society

    Guesstimation 2.0

    Solving Today's Problems on the Back of a Napkin 2.0 by Lawrence Weinstein.

  4. Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography by Jeremy Gray

    This comprehensive biography of the mathematician details his life and contributions to math, physics and philosophy. Princeton Univ., 2012, 593 p., $35

  5. BOOK REVIEW: The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond

    Review by Nathan Seppa.

  6. BOOK REVIEW: Heat: Adventures in the World’s Fiery Places by Bill Streever

    Review by Allison Bohac.

  7. SN Online

    LIFE The activity of just a few genes may be key to limb evolution. Read “Fins to limbs with flip of genetic switch.” NASA, NOAA Scientists analyze chemical forms in gorilla poop to reconstruct monthly shifts in the animals’ diets. See “Feces study gets the poop on gorillas’ diet.” EARTHNew satellite images dubbed “Black Marble” […]

  8. Science Future for January 26, 2013

    February 11–13 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville hosts lectures, films, a concert and even a cake contest to celebrate Charles Darwin’s birthday. See bit.ly/SFutdarwin February 18 Learn how the recently discovered “slow” earthquake differs from typical quakes with geophysicist Gregory Beroza at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque. See bit.ly/SFslowquakes

  9. Science Past from the issue of January 26, 1963

    DOGS FOUND COLOR-BLIND — Some animals are able to distinguish colors but others are practically color-blind, Dr. Gerti Duecker, zoologist of the University of Muenster, West Germany, has determined by a series of tests. Dr. Duecker found cats and dogs to be color-blind, although there is some evidence that some dogs have a faint sense […]

  10. The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix by James Watson; Alexander Gann and Jan Witkowski, eds.

    Watson’s 1968 memoir of the discovery of DNA’s structure gets a stylish update, with an extra chapter and added photographs and documents. Simon & Schuster, 2012, 345 p., $30

  11. Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See by Bill Finch, Beth M. Young, Rhett Johnson and John C. Hall

    A series of photographs enriches this tribute to disappearing longleaf pine forests, which once covered over 90 million acres of North America. Univ. of North Carolina, 2012, 176 p., $35

  12. Spectrums: Our Mind-boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity by David Blatner

    Explore the wonders of six kinds of spectra — numbers, light, sound, size, heat and time — that define the universe. Walker & Co., 2012, 183 p., $25