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  1. Life

    Life

    Bats are savvy shoppers for insect snacks, plus heartless dinos and worm evolution in this week’s news.

  2. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Scientists calculate the right mix of dark matter to build a galaxy, plus Kleopatra’s twins and an electric Encaledus in this week’s news.

  3. Humans

    Humans

    A child’s remains reveal early North American life, plus ancient canines and convincing metaphors in this week’s news.

  4. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Quantum states may help explain protein folding, plus more in this week’s news.

  5. Science Past from the issue of March 11, 1961

    CHICKS LIKE BRIGHT COLORS —Chickens tend to like bright colors and dislike dull or drab colors and black, a poultry scientist said. However, chickens, like people, are individuals and also show individual preferences for different colors, Dr. George D. Quigley of the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., told Science Service . For in-stance, yellow […]

  6. Science Future for March 12, 2011

    March 15 Learn how brain-immune battles may lead to diseases like Alzheimer’s. In Portland, Ore. Go to www.omsi.edu/events March 15–27The 19th annual Environmental Film Festival screens at venues across Washington, D.C. See www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org March 21Join science-minded chefs in exploring experimental gastronomy in New York City. Go to www.nyas.org/Events March 25–July 6In Los Angeles, view Small […]

  7. Book Review: After the Diagnosis: Transcending Chronic Illness by Julian Seifter with Betsy Seifter

    Review by Bruce Bower.

  8. The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease by Michael Bliss

    A medical historian examines how society came to put faith in science to cure disease. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011, 104 p., $18.

  9. The Evolution of the Human Head by Daniel E. Lieberman

    The story of human evolution is encapsulated in the myriad changes to the head’s anatomy, traced here throughout the hominid fossil record. Harvard Univ. Press, 2011, 756 p., $39.95.

  10. Letters

    Lofty argument I have been a fan of Science Service (now Society for Science & the Public) since I won a subscription to Things of Science [science kit] as a boy in the 1950s, so I feel I must correct a common misunderstanding on how an airplane wing develops lift as stated in your fine […]

  11. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Scientists discover what causes the rumbles before a volcano erupts, plus more in this week’s news.

  12. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Mouse fur yields insights into the genetics of camouflage, plus more in this week’s news.