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Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari With a Cast of Trillions by Mark W. Moffett
A biologist and photographer (who earned his Ph.D. under E.O. Wilson) captures the hidden worlds of ants. ADVENTURES AMONG ANTS: A GLOBAL SAFARI WITH A CAST OF TRILLIONS BY MARK W. MOFFETT University of California Press, 2010, 280 p., $29.95.
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Saturday Is For Funerals by Unity Dow and Max Essex
Stories from Botswana bring to life the challenges of solving the AIDS crisis in Africa. SATURDAY IS FOR FUNERALS BY UNITY DOW AND MAX ESSEX Harvard University Press, 2010, 218 p., $19.95.
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Blindspots: The Many Ways We Cannot See by Bruno G. Breitmeyer
A vision expert explores how the eyes, brain and thoughts work together to form mental images. BLINDSPOTS: THE MANY WAYS WE CANNOT SEE BY BRUNO G. BREITMEYER Oxford University Press, 2010, 266 p., $39.95.
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The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media by Richard Coyne
Smartphones and iPods are changing the way people use public spaces, both real and virtual. THE TUNING OF PLACE: SOCIABLE SPACES AND PERVASIVE DIGITAL MEDIA BY RICHARD COYNE MIT Press, 2010, 330 p., $35.
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The Intimate Ape: Orangutans and the Secret Life of a Vanishing Species by Shawn Thompson
A journalist travels to Sumatra and Borneo to study the apes and interview scientists. THE INTIMATE APE: ORANGUTANS AND THE SECRET LIFE OF A VANISHING SPECIES BY SHAWN THOMPSON Citadel Press, 2010, 292 p., $14.95.
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Letters
Making morphine The article “Chemists pin down poppy’s tricks for producing narcotic painkiller” (SN: 4/10/10, p. 5) may presage geopolitical changes in Afghanistan, regardless of whether there are engineered virus attacks or alternative crop programs. A technological advance like this one will eventually be used in the United States and Europe. Even if governments continue […]
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Confronting a third crisis in U.S. science education
Is science education broken in the United States? And if so, how should the country fix it? A working group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has been investigating these long-standing questions and is expected to issue a report on its policy recommendations this month. Science News Contributing Editor Alexandra […]
- Health & Medicine
Taste of power goes to the head, then muscles
Just a swish of the carbohydrates in an energy drink can increase muscle performance, a study suggests.
- Health & Medicine
Genetic switch makes old mice forgetful
Reversing a chemical change restored the animals’ memory-making ability.
- Life
Neandertal genome yields evidence of interbreeding with humans
After years of looking, geneticists are shocked to find that 1 percent to 4 percent of DNA in people from Europe and Asia is inherited from Neandertals.
- Chemistry
Decon Green can clean up the most toxic messes, developers claim
A new decontaminant could be a more benign alternative for cleaning up after chemical and biological accidents.
- Life
Undereducated immune cells get aggressive with HIV
Scientists discover a mechanism that makes some people resistant to infection with the AIDS virus.
