Science News
Science News is an award-winning weekly newsmagazine covering the most important research in all fields of science. Its 16 pages each week are packed with short, accurate articles that appeal to both general readers and scientists. Published since 1922, the magazine now reaches about 150,000 subscribers and more than 1 million readers.
These are the latest Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews from Science News .
Updated: 2 weeks 6 days ago
Babies lip-read before talking
Tue, 01/17/2012 - 2:40pm
Babblers focus on adults’ mouths when learning how to speak
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Rising carbon dioxide confuses brain signaling in fish
Sun, 01/15/2012 - 4:42pm
Nerve cells respond to acidifying waters
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Issue for the week of January 28th, 2012
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 11:56am
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String theorists squeeze nine dimensions into three
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 11:12am
Simulation suggests extra spatial directions failed to thrive
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Book Review : Auroras by Dan Bortolotti
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 10:11am
Striking images illuminate this exploration of one of nature’s greatest light shows.
Firefly, 2011, 143 p., $29.95
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Book Review : You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 10:07am
Forty-six of the brain’s everyday fallacies and cognitive biases are highlighted in an expansion of the author’s blog about the neuroscience of self-delusion.
Gotham Books, 2011, 300 p., $22.5...
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Book Review : Mushroom by Nicholas P. Money
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 10:07am
Mushroom lore and history mingle with science and medicine in a biologist’s exploration of the fungal kingdom.
Oxford, 2011, 201 p., $24.95
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Book Review : Part Wild: One Woman's Journey with a Creature Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dogs by Ceiridwen Terrill
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 10:06am
The cultural history and genetic story of dog domestication is told through the adventures of a wolf-husky hybrid adopted by a science writer.
Simon & Schuster, 2011, 274 p., $25
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Book Review : 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True by Guy P. Harrison
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 10:05am
A journalist turns a skeptical eye on beliefs ranging from astrology to Atlantis, showing that scientific discovery can be just as fascinating as myth.
Prometheus, 2011, 458 p., $18
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Book Review : BOOK REVIEW: Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 9:14am
Review by Laura Sanders
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Book Review : BOOK REVIEW: My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time by Lone Frank
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 9:14am
Review by Tina Hesman Saey
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Diet of a dying star
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 8:38am
Astronomers pinpoint what feeds a type of stellar explosion
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The Digital Camera Revolution
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 4:54am
Instead of imitating film counterparts, new technologies work with light in creative ways
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Head Agony
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 4:52am
Jumpy cells may underlie migraine’s sensory storm
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Soil’s Hidden Secrets
Fri, 01/13/2012 - 4:51am
Shocking discoveries from the underground may shake up climate science
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Neutrino parents call into question faster-than-light results
Fri, 12/30/2011 - 2:40pm
Particles’ precursor doesn’t have enough energy to produce such speeds
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Issue for the week of January 14th, 2012
Fri, 12/30/2011 - 12:57pm
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Book Review : The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics (Sterling Milestones) by Clifford A. Pickover
Fri, 12/30/2011 - 10:38am
Ideas and subjects ranging from Maxwell’s demon to the rings of Saturn are highlighted in short encyclopedia-style entries with attractive illustrations.
Sterling, 2011, 528 p., $29.95
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Book Review : Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters by Gordon M. Shepherd
Fri, 12/30/2011 - 10:37am
A neuroscientist explores how the brain creates the sensation of flavor and discusses the effects of taste perception on healthy eating.
Columbia Univ., 2011, 267 p., $24.95
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Book Review : Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks by Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham
Fri, 12/30/2011 - 10:37am
Learn the secrets behind card tricks, including step-by-step instructions for performing them, along with the mathematical ideas the tricks illustrate.
Princeton Univ., 2011, 244 p., $29.95
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