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  1. Chemistry

    Skin as a source of drug pollution

    Traces of over-the-counter and prescription meds taint the environment. The presumption Ì and it's a good one Ì has been that most of these residues come from the urine and solid wastes excreted by treated patients. But in some instances, a leading source of a drug may be skin Ì either because the medicine was applied there or because people sweat it out.

    By Janet Raloff

  2. Book Review: Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton with Henry Robert Schlesinger

    Review by Jenny Lauren Lee.

    By Science News

  3. Book Review: Charles Darwin: The ‘Beagle’ Letters by Frederick Burkhardt (Editor)

    Review by Tom Siegfried.

    By Science News
  4. Science & Society

    Book Review: Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond by Meg Daley Olmert

    Review by Sid Perkins.

    By Science News
  5. Climate

    Warming has already boosted insect breeding

    Museum records, publications suggest extra generations at same time as temperature increases

    By Susan Milius

  6. Law & Disorder

    Physicists keep trying to explain why time flows one way.

    By Tom Siegfried
  7. Life

    Book Review: The Root of Thought: Unlocking Glia–The Brain Cell That Will Help Us Sharpen Our Wits, Heal Injury, and Treat Brain Disease by Andrew Koob

    Review by Tina Hesman Saey.

    By Science News

  8. Book Review: Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness by Alva Noë

    Review by Bruce Bower.

    By Science News

  9. Book Review: Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by Riki Ott

    Review by Laura Sanders.

    By Science News
  10. Math

    Book Review: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Timothy Gowers, ed

    Review by Tom Siegfried.

    By Science News

  11. Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek

    Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek

    By Science News

  12. Book Review: Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

    Review by Rachel Ehrenberg.

    By Science News