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These are our favorite science books of 2018

Science News writers and editors pick which science books were this year’s must-reads.

By Science News Staff | 9:00am, December 09, 2018

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Ancestry

News | Ancestry

Ancient DNA suggests people settled South America in at least 3 waves

By Tina Hesman Saey | 9:00am, November 09, 2018

News in Brief | Ancestry

Meet the first known child of a Neandertal and a Denisovan

By Tina Hesman Saey | 1:00pm, August 22, 2018

News | Ancestry

The ‘language gene’ didn’t give humans a big leg up in evolution

By Tina Hesman Saey | 7:00am, August 03, 2018
Anthropology

News | Anthropology

A 5,000-year-old mass grave harbors the oldest plague bacteria ever found

By Bruce Bower | 11:00am, December 06, 2018

News in Brief | Anthropology

A Bronze Age game called 58 holes was found chiseled into stone in Azerbaijan

By Bruce Bower | 1:12pm, November 16, 2018

News | Anthropology

Skull damage suggests Neandertals led no more violent lives than humans

By Bruce Bower | 1:00pm, November 14, 2018
Archaeology

News in Brief | Archaeology

Stone Age people conquered the Tibetan Plateau’s thin air

By Bruce Bower | 12:58pm, November 30, 2018

News | Archaeology

Stone-tool makers reached North Africa and Arabia surprisingly early

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, November 29, 2018

News in Brief | Archaeology

An exploding meteor may have wiped out ancient Dead Sea communities

By Bruce Bower | 10:00am, November 20, 2018
History of Science

Reviews & Previews | History of Science

Two new books explore the science and history of the 1918 flu pandemic

By Cassandra Willyard | 7:00am, December 07, 2018

50 Years Ago | History of Science

50 years ago, screwworm flies inspired a new approach to insect control

By Kyle Plantz | 7:00am, November 23, 2018

Reviews & Previews | History of Science

‘18 Miles’ is full of interesting tales about Earth’s atmosphere

By Sid Perkins | 8:00am, October 28, 2018
Human Evolution

News | Human Evolution

Like Europe, Borneo hosted Stone Age cave artists

By Bruce Bower | 1:00pm, November 07, 2018

News in Brief | Human Evolution

Fossils hint hominids migrated through a ‘green’ Arabia 300,000 years ago

By Bruce Bower | 11:13am, November 01, 2018

News in Brief | Human Evolution

A 90,000-year-old bone knife hints special tools appeared early in Africa

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, October 03, 2018
Language

News | Language

Huge ‘word gap’ holding back low-income children may not exist after all

By Bruce Bower | 5:30am, September 04, 2018

News | Language

The window for learning a language may stay open surprisingly long

By Bruce Bower | 11:02am, May 11, 2018

News in Brief | Language

The southern drawl gets deconstructed

By Rachel Ehrenberg | 3:14pm, June 30, 2017
Networks

The List | Networks

Ask AI: How not to kill online conversations

By Maria Temming | 9:00am, January 03, 2018

The Science Life | Networks

Balloons will broadcast the 2017 solar eclipse live from on high

By Lisa Grossman | 1:30pm, July 26, 2017

Feature | Networks

Big biological datasets map life's networks

By Laurel Hamers | 10:00am, October 19, 2016
Psychology

Feature | Psychology

Shahzeen Attari explores the psychology of saving the planet

By Bruce Bower | 8:35am, September 26, 2018

Science & the Public | Psychology

‘Replication crisis’ spurs reforms in how science studies are done

By Bruce Bower | 11:00am, August 27, 2018

News | Psychology

Children may be especially vulnerable to peer pressure from robots

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, August 15, 2018
Science & Society

News in Brief | Science & Society

Global carbon dioxide emissions will hit a record high in 2018

By Laurel Hamers | 6:09pm, December 06, 2018

News | Science & Society

The researcher who created CRISPR twins defends his work but fails to quell controversy

By Tina Hesman Saey | 3:54pm, November 28, 2018

News | Science & Society

Chinese scientists raise ethical questions with first gene-edited babies

By Tina Hesman Saey | 5:51pm, November 27, 2018

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