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  1. Humans

    Humans

    The sort-of-popular kids are the biggest bullies, plus more in this week’s news.

  2. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Computer processors get even tinier, plus more in this week’s news.

  3. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Listening for rumbles of past hurricanes, plus more in this week's news.

  4. Genes & Cells

    Stem cells with a dual identity, plus more in this week’s news.

  5. Science Past from the issue of February 25, 1961

    TRAFFIC CONGESTION SEEN AS FUTURE SPACE PROBLEM— Traffic congestion may be one of the most serious problems man may have to face when he starts commuting regularly from earth to outer space. This new frontier gradually is becoming cluttered with earth-launched orbiting vehicles and other debris.… [A]stronomical observatories, weather, TV and other communication satellites as […]

  6. Science Future for February 26, 2011

    February 28 Learn about the good and bad of fat tissue at an afternoon symposium in New York City. Go to www.nyas.org/events March 7 At the Houston Museum of Natural Science, a geneticist describes efforts to track humanity’s migratory routes with DNA. See www.hmns.org March 11–12 Dig into the past at the Milwaukee Archaeology Fair. […]

  7. Book Review: Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America by William R. Freudenburg and Robert Gramling

    Review by Janet Raloff.

  8. Book Review: Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley

    Review by Susan Milius.

  9. Moon: A Brief History by Bernd Brunner

    Revisit the wonders of Earth’s next-door neighbor with this cultural and scientific exploration. Yale Univ. Press, 2010, 290 p., $25.

  10. The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead by Ann Fabian

    A historian looks back at skull collecting in America and examines how cranial size was used to justify racism. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2010, 270 p., $27.50.

  11. A Professor, a President, and a Meteor: The Birth of American Science by Cathryn J. Prince

    How a meteorite that struck Weston, Conn., in 1807 spurred a Yale chemist to help build the foundations of American scientific research. Prometheus, 2010, 254 p., $26.

  12. Quantum Physics for Poets by Leon M. Lederman and Christopher T. Hill

    Two physicists convey the enigmas of the quantum world in clear and compelling prose. Prometheus, 2011, 338 p., $28.