Science & Society

  1. Animals

    Swarm Savvy

    How bees, ants and other animals avoid dumb collective decisions

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  2. Science & Society

    Book Review: Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond by Meg Daley Olmert

    Review by Sid Perkins.

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  3. Science & Society

    The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg by Robert P. Crease

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  4. Tech

    Stimulus: Substantial money for research infrastructure

    Two agencies will share more than $1.25 billion to upgrade research equipment and facilities around the nation.

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  5. Science & Society

    AAAS: The New Masters of Science

    A new master's degree program is emerging that is creating "a new type of scientist" and a new professional class.

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  6. Science & Society

    Kids’ gestures foretell better vocabularies

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

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  7. 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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  8. Science & Society

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

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  9. 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.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Breast cancer costs poor people more

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

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  11. Life

    Protect biodiversity hot spots and the rest will follow

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  12. 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.

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