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Science & Society
Book Review: Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan

Review by Janet Raloff.

By Science NewsDecember 5, 2008
Science & Society
BOOK REVIEW | The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man

Review by Tia Ghose.

By Tia GhoseJuly 4, 2008
Health & Medicine
BOOK REVIEW | Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life

Review by Elizabeth Quill.

By Elizabeth QuillMay 12, 2008
Life
BOOK REVIEW | Amazon Expeditions: My Quest for the Ice-Age Equator

Review by Elizabeth Quill.

By Elizabeth QuillJune 5, 2008
BOOK REVIEW | Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others

Review by Amy Maxmen.

By Science NewsJune 20, 2008
Humans
BOOK REVIEW | Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery

Review by Davide Castelvecchi.

By Davide CastelvecchiMay 23, 2008
Space
BOOK REVIEW | Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius by Silvan S. Schweber

Review by Tom Siegfried.

By Tom SiegfriedMay 23, 2008
Book Review: The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind

Review by Tom Siegfried.

By Science NewsOctober 10, 2008
Gazing deeper still

Four hundred years ago, Galileo and his telescope brought the heavens into focus, setting the stage for modern astronomy.

By Dava SobelMay 8, 2009
Humans
BOOK REVIEW | Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

Review by Amy Maxmen.

By Amy MaxmenMay 12, 2008
Breaking the Speed Limit

Studies examine physiology and technology to better foresee the ultimate edge of human performance.

By Laura BeilNovember 20, 2009
Physics
Nanoclusters seem to skirt physics law

In simulations, tiny loophole allows colliding nanoclusters to increase speed after impact.

By Laura SandersApril 17, 2009