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  1. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Lung infections, stress effects in the womb and the genetics of stomach cancer in this week’s news.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Chilled newborns, statin drugs for stroke, effects of mom’s stress and more in this week’s news.

  3. Life

    Life

    Flowery advertising, tempting toilets for shrews, bat beacons and more in this week’s news.

  4. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Trojan asteroids, black hole interactions and a gargantuan watering hole in this week’s news.

  5. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Clear batteries, mucus busters, a 3-D invisibility cloak and more in this week's news.

  6. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Family ties in memory and breast cancer, plus diagnosing ancient deaths and more in this week’s news.

  7. Science Future for August 13, 2011

    August 17 – 21 Explore antique tractors and other equipment at Columbus, Ohio’s Center of Science and Industry. Go to www.cosi.org August 30 Launch into the sun’s cosmic neighborhood in a show at New York City’s Hayden Planetarium. See bit.ly/SNsolarnbhd August 31 In Portland, learn about the technology behind iPhone games. Ages 21 and up. […]

  8. Science Past from the issue of August 12, 1961

    “CLIMBERS” PRONE TO ILLNESS — “Nonhazardous” occupations can be dangerous for men who work their way up.  Eighty-four out of 139 young men between the ages of  22 and 32 who had attained managerial positions showed more illness than 55 co-workers who stepped into the same kind of job right out of college…. The men […]

  9. SN Online

    ATOM & COSMOS NASA’s Dawn spacecraft enters orbit around the asteroid Vesta. Read “Dawn on Vesta.” MOLECULES Tasting fat gives rats the munchies. See “Fat stimulates binge eating.” BODY & BRAIN Armor-clad knights use about twice as much energy to move as non-armored fighters. Read this tale and others in “News in Brief: Body & […]

  10. BOOK REVIEW: Eruptions That Shook the World by Clive Oppenheimer

    Review by Alexandra Witze.

  11. BOOK REVIEW: Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants by Richard Mabey

    Review by Sid Perkins.

  12. Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer, and Buildby Peter Goodfellow

    A browsable, amply illustrated overview of avian construction from mere scrapes in the sand to edible structures people prize for soup. Princeton Univ. Press, 2011, 160 p., $27.95