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Environment

Cool Idea

While nations concede a pressing need for attacking carbon dioxide emissions, other pollutants offer quicker paybacks.

Space

Exploring Earth’s alien spaces

Nathalie Cabrol, a planetary geologist and astrobiologist at the SETI Institute’s Carl Sagan Center and NASA’s Ames Research Center, both in Mountain View, Calif., hunts for alien life.

Science & Society

Feedback

Readers respond to our stories 'Distracted Driving' and 'Ratio of a good life exposed as ‘nonsense’'

Math

Thinking In Numbers

On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math by Daniel Tammet.

Health & Medicine

Home births more risky than hospital deliveries

Babies born at home are more likely to lack pulse after five minutes.

Animals

Cat Sense

How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw.

Science & Society

Science states

Life

Letters to the editor

Sleepless on a schedule, Edison's rubbery discovery and monogamy not just for men.

Earth

Deadliest hurricane in western hemisphere

Hurricane records have been broken.

Cosmology

Huge Galactic Explosion

An excerpt from the October 5, 1963, issue of Science News Letter.

Animals

MERS virus jumped several times from animals to humans

More than one person caught new illness from bats, camels or other creatures.

Ecosystems

Feces in termites’ nests block biological pest control

Built-in poop nourishes bacteria that protect notorious Formosan species.