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  1. From Science News Letter, October 11, 1958

    Fishy Conversations — Spiny lobsters are like men, their voices become deeper as they grow older. This is one of the preliminary findings of Dr. James M. Moulton of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., who spent this summer at the Bermuda Biological Station eavesdropping on the conversations of undersea life. In countless other marine biological stations […]

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  2. Letters

    Only in the north It is not clear in the fine article on volcanoes (“Disaster goes global,” SN: 8/30/08, p. 16) how dust from the eruption of Huaynaputina, well south of the equator, in 1600 could affect only the Northern Hemisphere. David Bronson, Biddeford Pool, Maine For one thing, there’s less real estate in the […]

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  3. ‘National Greatness’ versus real national greatness by Frank Wilczek

    From the October 11, 2008 issue of Science News.

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  4. Gene therapy tool would target free radicals

    New method would make the most of the balance between the good and bad of free radicals, offering a potential treatment for cardiovascular diseases.

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  5. Book Review: Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller

    Review by Heather Benjamin.

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  6. Book Review: A History of Paleontology Illustration by Jane P. Davidson

    Review by Sid Perkins.

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  7. The Primate Family Tree: The Amazing Diversity of Our Closest Relatives by Ian Redmond

    Firefly Books, 2008, 176 p., $35.

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  8. Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma by Anthony Johnson

    Thames & Hudson, 2008, 288 p., $40.

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  9. Miscarriage, Medicine & Miracles by Bruce K. Young and Amy Zavatto

    Bantam Dell Publishing, 2008, 334 p., $25.

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  10. Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century by Tim Gallagher

    Houghton Mifflin, 2008, 326 p., $25.

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  11. Earth

    Let’s Get Vertical

    City buildings offer opportunities for farms to grow up instead of out.

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  12. Astronomy

    Dead — but not duds

    White dwarfs shed light on physics and the fate of the cosmos.

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