Science & Society

Animals

Swarm Savvy

How bees, ants and other animals avoid dumb collective decisions

Science & Society

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

Review by Sid Perkins.

Science & Society

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

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.

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.

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.

Science & Society

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.