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Table of Contents January-February 2011

COVER STORY

Bridging the Gap

Breaking down gender barriers will bring more energy and fresh perspectives into the world of science. Four leading lights discuss how to make it happen.

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FEATURES

#1: Worst Oil Spill of All-Time, and a Future Full of Oil

by Mac Margolis

#2: First Synthetic Organism Created

by Kathleen McAuliffe

#3: E.O. Wilson's Theory of Altruism Shakes Up Understanding of Evolution

by Pamela Weintraub

#4: Climate Science Wins a Round, But the Campaign Goes Poorly

by Tim Folger

#5: Family Genomics Links DNA to Disease

by Kathleen McAuliffe

#6: Attack of the Bedbugs

by Michael Abrams

#7: The Map of Everything 

by Andrew Grant

#8: Obesity Reaches Epidemic Proportions

by Dan Hurley

#9: World’s First  Cyberweapon

by Kim Zetter

#10: Early Diagnosis for Alzheimer's

by Kathleen McAuliffe

DEPARTMENTS

The Brain: Seeing the Person Behind the Face

by Carl Zimmer

Neuroscience sleuths are on the case of face blindness, a strange malady that makes some people unable to distinguish friend from foe.

Top 100 Stories of 2010

The World's Best Places to See Science in Action

by Mara Grunbaum, Will Hunt, Victoria Tang

From bird-built bachelor pads, to a 2,000-year-old pill, to a city filled with self-driving vehicles, here are 8 spots where discovery is happening in real time.

Vital Signs: One Problem, Many Faces

by Tony Dajer

A sharp abdominal pain indicates something far more dire than a routine stomachache.

20 Things You Didn't Know About...

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Kissing

by Sheril Kirshenbaum

Our unique human lips, the conquests that carried kissing, and how kissing makes men and women more like each other

DATA

#11: Geoff Marcy Leads the Hunt to Find Planets Like Our Own

by Michale Lemonick

#13: Bats Devastated by Deadly Plague

by Emily Elert

#15: Super-Vaccine Could Eliminate Flu

by Aaron Rowe

#17: New Hope for the World’s Forests

by Valerie Ross

#19: Ocean Ooze Teems With Life

by Bo Zhang

#12: Brain Map Shows You Think Like a Worm

by Michael Abrams

#14: Supermaterial Gets Supersized

by Stephen Ornes

#16: Google Whacked by Hack Attack

by Kim Zetter

#18: Helper Gene Makes Cancer Deadly

by Emily Elert

#20: AIDS Virus Has an Ancient History

by Monica Heger

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