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  1. BOOK REVIEW: Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love and Language from the Insect World by Marlene Zuk

    Review by Susan Milius.

    By Science News

  2. BOOK REVIEW: The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 1: Introduction and Book I: Containing All Sorts of Trees, That Bear Edible Fruits, and Are Husbanded by People by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius; translated by E.M. Beekman

    Review by Susan Milius.

    By Science News
  3. Physics

    Lessons from physics help reveal evidence for the body ferroelectric

    By Tom Siegfried

  4. BOOK REVIEW: Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us by Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman

    Review by Devin Powell.

    By Science News

  5. The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us by Jeffrey Kluger

    A review of recent research shows how siblings affect each other, covering topics such as birth order, blended families and parents who play favorites. Riverhead Books, 2011, 320 p., $26.95

    By Science News

  6. BOOK REVIEW: The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time by David Sloan Wilson

    Review by Sid Perkins.

    By Science News

  7. BOOK REVIEW: Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

    Review by Daniel Strain.

    By Science News

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

    Review by Susan Milius.

    By Science News

  9. Book Review: Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux

    Review by Ron Cowen.

    By Science News
  10. Humans

    Weighing the costs of conferencing

    A provocative editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association questions the value of attending scientific conferences. It’s a theme that reemerges every few years. And in times of tight budgets, the idea seems worth revisiting.

    By Janet Raloff
  11. Genetics

    Factory of Life

    Synthetic biologists reinvent nature with parts, circuits.

    By Alexandra Witze

  12. BOOK REVIEW: Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests (David Suzuki Foundation Series) by Andrew Nikiforuk

    Review by Sid Perkins.

    By Science News