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  1. Upcoming events

    Science Future for June 1, 2013.

  2. Letters to the editor

    Fusion reactions It is not true that fusion packs the highest punch of any known energy-generating process (“Ignition failed,” SN: 4/20/13, p. 26). Matter-antimatter annihilation far exceeds it (Star Trek had it right back in the 1960s). I believe that under certain conditions, matter falling into a black hole can also yield more energy than […]

  3. Science & Society

    SN Online

  4. Health & Medicine

    “Draw” body by sound

    Science Past from the issue of June 1, 1963.

  5. Physics

    A Palette of Particles by Jeremy Bernstein

  6. Science & Society

    Between Man and Beast

    An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel.

  7. Science & Society

    A Renaissance Globemaker’s Toolbox

    Johannes Schöner and the Revolution of Modern Science 1474-1550 by John W. Hessler.

  8. Neuroscience

    Pieces of Light

    How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts by Charles Fernyhough.

  9. Upcoming events

    Science Future for May 18, 2013.

  10. SN Online

    GENES & CELLS See a roundup of some of the latest discoveries about China’s H7N9 virus in “ New bird flu claims more victims .” ENVIRONMENT Lake Erie is loaded with tiny pieces of plastic containing toxic pollutants. Read “Puny plastic particles mar Lake Erie’s waters.” HUMANS Male attractiveness relies on a combination of body […]

  11. Whistling noises give news from atmosphere

    Science Past from the issue of May 18, 1963.

  12. Letters to the editor

    Ethics of humanized mice The recent stories “Human cells rev up mouse brains” (SN: 4/6/13, p. 16) and “Of mice and man” (SN: 3/23/13, p. 22) drove home to me that human-animal hybrids are now reality. In science fiction stories with such hybrids, a big part of the plot is the resultant ethical gray area: […]