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  1. Climate

    Climate foiled Europeans’ early exploration of North America

    The book ‘A Cold Welcome’ examines how the Little Ice Age and other climatic and geographic factors shaped colonial history.

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  2. Astronomy

    ‘Making Contact’ chronicles an astronomer’s struggle to find E.T.

    For decades, astronomer Jill Tarter led the hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence, as detailed in a new biography.

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  3. Chemistry

    Every breath you take contains a molecule of history

    In 'Caesar’s Last Breath', best-selling author Sam Kean tells vivid stories about the gases we can’t see.

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  4. Science & Society

    Science News’ favorite books of 2016

    Science News writers and editors compiled a list of the books they were most excited about this year.

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  5. Astronomy

    Read up on solar eclipses before this year’s big event

    Three new books chronicle the science, history and cultural significance of total solar eclipses.

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  6. Agriculture

    ‘Big Chicken’ chronicles the public health dangers of using antibiotics in farming

    A new book takes a hard look at the chicken industry for its role in fostering antibiotic resistance.

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  7. Earth

    North America’s largest recorded earthquake helped confirm plate tectonics

    Henry Fountain’s 'The Great Quake' mixes drama and science to tell the story of the 1964 Alaska earthquake.

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  8. Anthropology

    Conflict reigns over the history and origins of money

    Thousands of years ago, money took different forms as a means of debt payment, archaeologists and anthropologists say.

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  9. Ecosystems

    Invasive species, climate change threaten Great Lakes

    In The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, a journalist chronicles the lakes’ downward spiral and slow revival.

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  10. Animals

    New book tells strange tales of evolution

    'The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar' features a cadre of critters that have evolved seemingly bizarre solutions to some of life’s biggest problems.

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  11. Animals

    ‘Cannibalism’ chronicles grisly science of eating your own

    In "Cannibalism", a zoologist explores a grisly topic that scientists have only recently begun to study seriously.

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  12. Environment

    Humans’ stuff vastly outweighs humans

    The human-made technosphere weighs 30 trillion tons and surpasses the natural biosphere in mass and diversity, researchers estimate.

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