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  1. Plants

    The Man Who Planted Trees

    Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet by Jim Robbins

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Why Calories Count

    From Science to Politics (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim.

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  3. Animals

    Mr. Hornaday’s War

    How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World by Stefan Bechtel.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Experiment Eleven

    Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug by Peter Pringle

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  5. Earth

    Linking magma to quakes

    Rock crystals reveal pulses of underground activity.

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  6. Math

    A Mind from Math

    Alan Turing, often considered the father of computer science, was born a century ago, in June of 1912. He foresaw machines’ potential to mimic brains.

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  7. Neuroscience

    Hurt Blocker

    The next big pain drug may soothe sensory firestorms without side effects.

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  8. Animals

    Animals on the Move

    Worldwide — on land, in the sea and in rivers, streams and lakes — wildlife is responding to rising temperatures.

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  9. Earth

    13th century volcano mystery may be solved

    Indonesian volcano may be the culprit in the biggest eruption of the last seven millennia.

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  10. Humans

    European cave art gets older

    Ancient illustrations in northern Spain date to more than 40,000 years ago.

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  11. Life

    Grasshoppers’ terror outlives them

    After an existence plagued by predatory spiders, the insects pass into oblivion, leaving a legacy of impoverished soil.

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  12. Life

    Calcium offers clues in mass extinction

    Ocean acidification during Permian period may have caused the Great Dying.

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