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  1. Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs: A History of Liquid Crystals by David Dunmur and Tim Sluckin

    Learn how liquid crystals were discovered  and how they eventually became the standard in display technology. Oxford Univ. Press, 2010, 345 p., $53.95.

  2. Letters

    Religion at Sacred Ridge? I follow your magazine with zeal. I was somewhat surprised by “Massacre at Sacred Ridge” (SN: 11/6/10, p. 22), which seems to attribute the slaughter to some action by those who were murdered and does not discuss potential religious overtones of the attack. Is organized religion the culprit in this incident? […]

  3. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    A controversy about the benefits of extensive breast cancer surgery, plus more in this week’s news.

  4. Life

    Life

    A thinner dodo, plus more in this week’s news.

  5. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    How the moon got its water, plus more in this week’s news.

  6. Humans

    Humans

    How cell phones exert subtle mind control, plus more in this week’s news.

  7. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Billions of particles get entangled, plus more in this week’s news.

  8. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week’s news.

  9. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Smoking can damage DNA in a flash, plus more in this week's news.

  10. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Obesity rates skyrocket worldwide, plus more in this week’s news.

  11. Life

    Life

    New studies unveil the fire ant genome and why honeybee personalities matter, plus more in the week’s biology news.

  12. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Evidence gets stronger that Mars once held an ocean, plus more in this week’s news.