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  1. Health & Medicine

    Insects (the original white meat)

    Dining on insects, usually more by choice than necessity, occurs in at least 100 countries — and may be better than chicken for both people and the environment.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Chemistry

    Silk

    Mimicking how spiders make their complex array of silks could usher in a tapestry of new materials, and other animals or plants could be designed to be the producers.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  3. Life

    Life: Science news of the year, 2008

    Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Life. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

    By Science News
  4. Life

    Evolution’s Evolution

    Darwin’s dangerous idea has adapted to modern biology

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  5. Life

    Darwin’s Evolution

    Darwin's life and his contribution to science.

    By Tom Siegfried

  6. Strings Link the Ultracold with the Superhot

    Perfect liquids suggest theory’s math mirrors something real.

    By Tom Siegfried
  7. Animals

    Swarm Savvy

    How bees, ants and other animals avoid dumb collective decisions

    By Susan Milius

  8. As the worms churn

    Burrowing animals mix soil and sediments, shaping the environment and scientists’ understanding of it.

    By Sid Perkins

  9. Trawling the brain

    New findings raise questions about reliability of fMRI as gauge of neural activity.

    By Laura Sanders
  10. Life

    2009 Science News of the Year: Life

    Breeding records for sheep on Hirta offer an unusual opportunity to study inheritance. Image Credit: Arpat Ozgul Gentler winters shrink sheepWarming has trumped the benefits of fat to shrink sheep on the remote North Atlantic island of Hirta, a new analytical approach has revealed (SN: 8/1/09, p. 12). Weights for wild female Soay sheep dropped […]

    By Science News
  11. Plants

    Losing life’s variety

    2010 is the deadline set for reversing declines in biodiversity,  but little has been accomplished.

    By Susan Milius

  12. DNA on the move

    The latest advances from the field of DNA nanotechnology include nanobot ‘spiders’ learning how to walk and even do some work.

    By Gwyneth Dickey