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  1. Science & Society

    Science News’ favorite books of 2015

    The Science News staff offers its must-read picks of 2015.

    By Science News Staff
  2. Animals

    Readers bugged by wine-spoiling stinkbugs

    Stinkbug hazards, Great Lakes invaders and more reader feedback.

    By Science News Staff
  3. Science & Society

    ‘Idea Makers’ tackles scientific thinkers’ big ideas and personal lives

    Stephen Wolfram’s Idea Makers profiles the lives and professional contributions of prominent people in science and technology, including Ada Lovelace, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Steve Jobs.

    By Tom Siegfried
  4. Genetics

    Year in review: Epigenome makes its debut

    The Roadmap Epigenomics Project, unveiled in February 2015, is the first in a series of 3-D looks at the human genome.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Paleontology

    Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ resurrects giant extinct ape

    Disney’s latest version of ‘The Jungle Book’ features Gigantopithecus, the largest known ape ever to have lived.

    By Erin Wayman
  6. Psychology

    A look at Rwanda’s genocide helps explain why ordinary people kill their neighbors

    New research on the 1994 Rwanda genocide overturns assumptions about why people participate in genocide. A sense of duty, not blind obedience, drives many perpetrators.

    By Bruce Bower
  7. Plants

    ‘Lab Girl’ invites readers into hidden world of plants

    In Lab Girl, geobiologist Hope Jahren reveals secret lives of plants — and scientists.

    By Meghan Rosen
  8. Math

    Hidden Figures highlights three black women who were vital to the U.S. space program

    "Hidden Figures" tells the untold story of the "human computers" who were essential to the launch of the U.S. space program.

    By Emily Conover
  9. Climate

    Geoengineering is world’s last hope, new book argues

    Geoengineering is humankind’s only viable solution to curb climate change impacts, a journalist contends in The Planet Remade.

    By Thomas Sumner
  10. Animals

    Readers weigh in on mathematical animals and more

    Animal math, dinosaur digestion and more in reader feedback from our December 10, 2017, issue.

    By Science News Staff
  11. Science & Society

    ‘House of Lost Worlds’ opens vaults of renowned natural history museum

    'House of Lost Worlds' pays homage to Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History and to the colorful scientists who made the museum great.

    By Elizabeth Quill
  12. Science & Society

    Centennial books illuminate Einstein’s greatest triumph

    Scholars mark general relativity 100ths anniversary with books on history, biography, science.

    By Tom Siegfried