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  1. Book Review: Food Bites: The Science of the Foods We Eat by Richard W. Hartel and AnnaKate Hartel

    Review by Dina Fine Maron.

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  2. Book Review: Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller

    Review by Heather Benjamin.

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  3. Book Review: Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children by Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff

    Review by Dina Fine Maron.

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  4. Physics

    Book Review: Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking by Charles Seife

    Review by Davide Castelvecchi.

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  5. Music of the hemispheres

    Playing instruments gives brains a boost.

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  6. Science & Society

    Science literacy: U.S. college courses really count

    Over the past two decades, science literacy in the United States – an estimate of the share of adults who can follow complex science issues and maybe even render an informed opinion on them – has nearly tripled. But – and it’s a big but -- the proportion of people who fall into this category remains small. Just 28 percent.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    BOOK REVIEW | Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer

    Review by Nathan Seppa.

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  8. 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.

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  9. Gazing deeper still

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

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  10. Health & Medicine

    BOOK REVIEW | Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life

    Review by Elizabeth Quill.

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  11. Science & Society

    BOOK REVIEW | The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man

    Review by Tia Ghose.

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  12. Life

    BOOK REVIEW | Amazon Expeditions: My Quest for the Ice-Age Equator

    Review by Elizabeth Quill.

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