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  1. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Chromosomal risks of fertility treatment, vitamin A for vaccines and clues to brain cancer in this week's news.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    A good massage can help, plus bed nets for babies, sugar counteracts fish and more in this week's news.

  3. Life

    Life

    Happy orangutans, vitamins from pollinators and ancient bug eyes in this week's news

  4. Humans

    Humans

    Seeking solace in warmth, plus the risks of payday and the impulsive brain in this week’s news.

  5. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Electrifying ink, superelastic alloys, knotty molecules and more in this week's news.

  6. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Airplanes knock rain from the sky, plus a quick-melting glacier and BPA's diabetes link in this week's news.

  7. Life

    Genes & Cells

    A sticky E. coli outbreak, clues to pancreatic cancer and a double whammy that leads to cancer in this week's news.

  8. Book Review: A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer

    Review by Tina Hesman Saey.

  9. Book Review: Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman

    Review by Laura Sanders.

  10. The Ragged Edge of the World by Eugene Linden

    Buy this book A journalist follows cargo cults in New Guinea, Pygmies in Africa and other groups to trace industrialization’s effects. Viking, 2011, 256 p., $26.95

  11. Epigenetics by Richard C. Francis

    Buy this book A rollicking narrative goes beyond the gene to show how external influences shape genetic legacy. W. W. Norton & Co., 2011, 224 p., $25.95

  12. Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans’ Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter by Ellen Prager

    Buy this book A tastefully scandalous tour of defensive secretions and extreme sexual flexibility backs up a plea for ocean conservation. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011, 200 p., $26