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  1. Letters

    Sinking heavy ice The picture in “From the Archive” (“Self-experimenter didn’t suffer,” SN: 1/28/12, p. 32) shows heavy water ice sinking in a glass of water while alongside, light water ice floats. What is not clear is what kind of water is in the glasses. If heavy water ice were in a glass of heavy […]

  2. SN Online

    ON THE SCENE BLOG Science can’t hear back in time. Read more in “Archaeoacoustics: Tantalizing, but fantastical.” Courtesy of Hagen Wende and Carmen Birchmeier GENES & CELLS An eye protein helps mice and people sense vibrations. See “Seeing, feeling have something in common.” LIFE Early fliers may have had dark feathers. Read “Archaeopteryx wore black.” […]

  3. Science Future for March 10, 2012

    March 30–31 Meet astronaut Richard Linnehan and Nobel winners at the Texas A&M Physics and Engineering Festival in College Station. See bit.ly/SNtamu March 31 See glowing creatures at a bioluminescence exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Learn more at bit.ly/SNbiolum

  4. Science Past from the issue of March 10, 1962

    KENNEDY URGES BETTER PAY — President John F. Kennedy’s proposal to raise the pay scale for top Government employees should help stem the flow of scientists and engineers now leaving public service for much higher pay in industry…. The top Government salary under most scales is $18,500 a year. Many top positions are not filled […]

  5. Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan

    Attempts to wipe out diseases such as malaria come with a cost, this history of eradication campaigns shows. Cornell Univ., 2011, 309 p., $39.95

  6. Riddle of the Feathered Dragons: Hidden Birds of China by Alan Feduccia

    An evolutionary biologist reviews fossil evidence for bird and dinosaur evolution and contests the view that birds are the last living dinosaurs. Yale Univ., 2012, 358 p., $55

  7. African American Women Chemists by Jeannette Brown

    A chemist sketches the lives of women who broke racial boundaries, including Marie Maynard Daly, the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1947. Oxford Univ., 2012, 272 p., $35

  8. DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World by David Kinkela

    Science and politics collide in this history of one of the world’s most controversial pesticides. Univ. of North Carolina, 2011, 272 p., $39.95

  9. The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 by Mircea Pitici, ed.

    This anthology offers an overview of stories written for a popular audience about the mysteries and everyday uses of math. Princeton Univ., 2012, 414 p., $19.95

  10. BOOK REVIEW: The Science of Sin: The Psychology of the Seven Deadlies (and Why They Are So Good For You) by Simon M. Laham

    Review by Nick Bascom.

  11. BOOK REVIEW: Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch

    Review by Laura Sanders.

  12. Science News at the 2012 AAAS meeting

    A round-up of Science News coverage of the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held February 16–20, 2012 in Vancouver, Canada.