Science & Society

Science & Society

Kids’ gestures foretell better vocabularies

Toddlers who gesture more at age 14 months possess larger vocabularies when entering school, new research finds.

Science & Society

Book Review: Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey

Review by Sid Perkins.

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Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L. Park

Science & Society

2008: Science news of the year

Science News editors and writers survey the top news from the world of science in 2008. The selected stories are featured in this year-end issue, with links to the original, longer stories.

Health & Medicine

Breast cancer costs poor people more

Out-of-pocket costs of breast cancer hit poor individuals the hardest.

Life

Protect biodiversity hot spots and the rest will follow

Science & Society

Book Review: Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan

Review by Janet Raloff.

Science & Society

All in a Day’s Work: Careers Using Science by Megan Sullivan

NSTA Press, 2008, 140 p., $15.95.

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Sound reasoning requires statistical understanding

Science & Society

It’s time for addiction science to supersede stigma

Neuroscience

Breaking the Barrier

A technique combining ultrasound pulses with microbubbles may help scientists move therapeutic drugs across the brain’s protective divide.

Psychology

Undecided voters not so undecided

A measure of unconscious attitudes predicts the opinions that undecided people eventually reach on a controversial issue.