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Soaring pterosaur
With a mechanical brain, a pterosaur replica soars.
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A giant penguin plumed in earth tones
The first well-preserved feathers of 36-million-year-old diving bird give clues to color and evolution.
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Off the Grid by Nick Rosen
A journalist travels the country to visit Americans who, for a variety of reasons, have opted out of the electrical grid and into alternative lifestyles. OFF THE GRID BY NICK ROSEN Penguin, 2010, 292 p., $15.
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Science Future for July 31, 2010
August 14 – 17The American Sociological Association meets in Atlanta. See www.asanet.org/meetings August 30 – September 3Researchers and policy makers meet in Boston to discuss environmental factors affecting penguin population health. See www.penguinconference.org September 1A psychologist lectures in New York City on the connection between beauty and happiness. See www.nyas.org/events
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2010 Science News of the Year: Earth
Credit: Alvaro Ybarra Zavala/Getty Images Inside the Haiti quake Some 230,000 Haitians died when a magnitude-7 earthquake struck just outside Port-au-Prince on the afternoon of January 12. Scientists from around the world scrambled to the scene (SN Online: 1/16/10) to assess which fault had ruptured and whether more people were at risk. Early ideas held […]
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Penguin DNA evolving faster than thought
Comparing the DNA in modern birds to that in ancient generations shows molecular evolution happens at varying rates, and that each species has its own rate of evolution.
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When Birds Go to Town
Urban settings offer enterprising critters new opportunities — if they can cope with the challenges
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AAAS: March of the Hungry Penguins
Patagonian penguins have become sentinels of climate change and human impacts on the marine world.
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One ocean, four (or more) killer whale species
Killer whales may be at least four species, a new study of mitochondrial DNA shows.
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Book Review: The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved & Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade
Review by Bruce Bower.
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One ocean, four (or more) killer whale species
A new genetic analysis splits killer whales into multiple taxa.
