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  1. Evolution’s Bad Girl

    Ardi shakes up the fossil record.

    By Bruce Bower

  2. The Ties That Bind

    Studies of human social networks go high-tech.

    By Lisa Grossman

  3. 2009 Science News of the Year

    Brevity is in. If what you have to say can’t be delivered in 140 characters or less, you should reconsider your message — or so it seems in a world agog with texting and Twitter. Compiling Science News’ annual list of scientific highlights brought home the good and bad of this trend. Indeed, some of […]

    By Science News
  4. Math

    2009 Science News of the Year: Numbers

    Detroit Tigers second baseman Placido Polanco, a 2009 Gold Glove winner, applies the tag as Chicago White Sox’s Gordon Beckham slides into second.