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- Earth
Stop-and-go plate tectonics
Early on, ancient crustal plates may have dived deep into the Earth, time and again, giving a halting start to the planetary remodeling process.
- Health & Medicine
Autism linked to obesity in pregnancy
Association may spark research into a possible biological mechanism.
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- Space
Planets’ gravity tidies stellar ring
The vast dust disk around the star Fomalhaut hints at a pair of orbiting bodies.
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Highlights from the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Estrogen mimics may delay puberty and honeybees hurting from pesticides.
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BOOK REVIEW: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Review by Janet Raloff.
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Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth by Chris Stringer
A paleoanthropologist argues that multiple early human groups arose and competed in Africa. Times Books, 2012, 320 p., $28
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The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol
A look at new technologies such as genome sequencing and organ growth suggests that digital advances could usher in a new age of personalized medicine. Basic Books, 2012, 304 p., $27.99
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
A journalist explores research on how habits are formed in the brain, how to create new ones and what it takes to break them. Random House, 2012, 371 p., $28
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Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality by Elias Aboujaoude
A psychiatrist examines online alter egos and how they can affect life offline, sometimes for the worse. W.W. Norton, 2011, 349 p., $17.95
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The Quantum Universe (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does) by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Two physicists use simple analogies to explain the weird world of quantum theory. Da Capo Press, 2011, 256 p., $25
