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Letters
Trust no one “Trust affects kids’ patience” (SN: 11/17/12, p. 10) refers only to children. But based on my own experience, I’d expect it to apply to adults as well. If you tell me I can have $100 now or $200 in an hour, what I do will depend on whether or not I trust […]
- Space
Moon probes set for smashing end
NASA to guide gravity-seeking spacecraft into the side of a lunar cliff.
- Life
News in brief: Counting project reveals forest’s bug diversity
Some 25,000 species of arthropods live in Panamanian forest.
- Life
Early life forms may have been terrestrial
A controversial theory suggests that at least some of the earliest widespread complex life forms lived on land.
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Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel by Dorion Sagan, ed.
Friends and colleagues reflect on the contributions of one of the 20th century’s most influential biologists. Chelsea Green, 2012, 205 p., $27.95
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Maya apocalypse goes boom
World doesn’t end, ancient astronomy gets a boost.
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Evolving E. coli
25-year experiment sees real-time natural selection.
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Venus sails across sun in rare display
Transit events happen in pairs separated by more than a century.
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New species of the year
More creatures, less Latin used to describe them.
