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  1. The Digital Camera Revolution

    Instead of imitating film counterparts, new technologies work with light in creative ways.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  2. Neuroscience

    Emblems of Awareness

    Brain signatures lead scientists to the seat of consciousness.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Earth

    Making Waves

    Japanese quake gave scientists an unprecedented look at a big tsunami.

    By Alexandra Witze
  4. Health & Medicine

    Enriched with Information

    New theory doesn’t limit consciousness to the brain.

    By Laura Sanders

  5. Plumbing the Archives

    A meditation on 90 years of Science News.

    By Janet Raloff
  6. Animals

    Furry Friends Forever

    Humans aren’t the only animals who benefit from having someone to count on.

    By Susan Gaidos

  7. Designer Flu

    How scientists made a killer virus airborne — and who should know.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  8. Animals

    Animals on the Move

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

    By Nancy Ross-Flanigan

  9. Himalaya Rush

    Scientists scurry to figure out the status of glaciers on the roof of the world

    By Devin Powell

  10. Making Data Work

    Researchers pursue analogy between statistical evidence and thermodynamics.

    By Tom Siegfried
  11. Health & Medicine

    Tricks Foods Play

    Most people would never equate downing a well-dressed salad or a fried chicken thigh with toking a joint of marijuana. But to Joseph Hibbeln of the National Institutes of Health, the comparison isn’t a big stretch.

    By Janet Raloff
  12. Genetics

    Factory of Life

    Synthetic biologists reinvent nature with parts, circuits.

    By Alexandra Witze