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  1. ‘Love’ hormone has a dark side

    Often associated with feelings of closeness, oxytocin can make people more or less trusting depending on their underlying social outlook.

    By Bruce Bower

  2. Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog

    Review by Susan Milius.

    By Science News
  3. Life

    Biologists go bats for storm-watch data

    Borrowing meteorologists’ weather radar info may reveal new view of the ecology of flying animals.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Space

    Heat-seeking WISE spacecraft to scan the skies

    The new instrument promises to discover millions of infrared-bright galaxies and thousands of previously unknown asteroids and brown dwarfs.

    By Ron Cowen

  5. In the Zone

    Evolution may have trained the mind to see scoring streaks — even where they don't exist.

    By Bruce Bower

  6. Book Review: Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives by Annie Murphy Paul

    Review by Bruce Bower.

    By Bruce Bower
  7. Animals

    DEET of the sea

    Before turning in for the night, some reef-dwelling fish apply a slimy mucus shield to deter biting bugs.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg

  8. Letters

    Underground particle hunts The dark matter experiments described in “Mining for missing matter” (SN: 8/28/10, p. 22) sound almost identical to those looking for neutrinos. Both are placed deep underground to help screen out background radiation, especially neutrons. How do particle hunters differentiate between neutrino hits and those by the putative dark matter particles? Also, […]

    By Science News
  9. Life

    Helping Bats Hold On

    Scientists seek a savior as a deadly fungal pandemic explodes through vulnerable colonies.

    By Janet Raloff

  10. Into orbit

    MESSENGER pays a yearlong visit to Mercury.

    By Ron Cowen

  11. Science Past from the issue of March 26, 1960

    HIDDEN WATER TRACED BY BOMB FALLOUT IN RAIN — Radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests can be used to seek out and “expose” new sources of drinking water that lie hidden deep in the earth…. Raindrops have an affinity for absorbing minute particles of tritium from the fallout left in the atmosphere after nuclear bomb […]

    By Science News

  12. A mind for music

    Infancy’s Symphony | Photo by Carey Wolinsky Read features from the special edition Articles in A mind for music. | Go Download a PDF of the special edition Exclusive for Science News subscribers.Download Download PDF | Subscribe There are very few activities for which your birthday suit and a three-piece suit are equally appropriate attire. […]

    By Elizabeth Quill