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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Archaeology: Rediscovering Civilizations

Tut-Ankh-Amen’s Inner Tomb Is Opened After 3,400 Years Doors to the Ancient World Unlocked by Archaeologists Scientist Stumbles Upon Method to Fix Age of Earth’s Materials Jamestown Fort, “Birthplace” of America in 1607, Is Found Bones Under Parking Lot Belonged to Richard III

Chapter 2: Astronomy: Of Time and the Stars

The Big Bang and Before

Star Birth Sudden, Lemaître Asserts Peering Back in Time, Astronomers Glimpse Galaxies Aborning What Happened Before the Big Bang?

The Solar System

The Satellites of Mars The New Solar Theory Canals of Mars Called an Optical Illusion Viking Robot Sets Down Safely on Mars Pluto’s Not a Planet? Only in New York Curiosity Rover’s Quest for Clues on Mars

The Universe and Beyond

Universe Multiplied a Thousand Times by Harvard Astronomer’s Calculations What Man’s New 200-Inch Eye Will See If Theory Is Right, Most of Universe Is Still “Missing” In Key Repair, Telescope Gets Better Eyesight Astronomers Relish Chance to See Rare Supernova Blow Itself to Bits The End of Everything Hot on Trail of “Just Right” Far-Off Planet

Chapter 3: Biology: The Mechanisms of Life

Life Is Generated in Scientist’s Tube Clue to Chemistry of Heredity Found 50 Years Later, Rosalind Franklin’s X-Ray Fuels Debate Scientist Reports First Cloning Ever of Adult Mammal Pas de Deux of Sexuality Is Written in the Genes My Genome, Myself: Seeking Clues in DNA His Fertility Advance Draws Ire

Chapter 4: Earth Science: Plates, Poles and Oceans

The Forces That Shape the Planet

Theory of Continental Drift Is Tested in Icy Greenland U.S. Satellites Find Radiation Barrier Mountain Birth Linked to Oceans

The Earth Aroused: Quakes, Volcanoes and Other Disasters

Record Made in Washington St. Helens: Scientists Report the Cause Is Finally Clear Nothing’s Easy for New Orleans Flood Control Mercilessly Unpredictable, Quakes Defy Seismologists A Bridge Built to Sway When the Earth Shakes The Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: Costs of Shoring Up Coastal Communities

Chapter 5: The Environment: Challenges to Life

The Natural World

A Tree’s Life Through Thirteen Centuries There’s Poison All Around Us Now Tests Show Aerosol Gases May Pose Threat to Earth The Endangered West A Wild, Fearsome World Under Each Fallen Leaf Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash

The Changing Climate

Our Melting North Warming Arctic Climate Melting Glaciers Faster, Raising Ocean Level, Scientist Says The Weather Is Really Changing Warmer Climate on the Earth May Be Due to More Carbon Dioxide in the Air Meeting Reaches Accord to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

Chapter 6: Exploration: New Worlds, Down Here and Out There

Our Own Planet

The Discoverer of the Source of the Nile Peary Discovers North Pole After Eight Trials in 23 Years Cook Answers Times Queries A Clash of Polar Frauds and Those Who Believe Amundsen Describes His Polar Dash Down into Davy Jones’s Locker A Voyage into the Abyss: Gloom, Gold and Godzilla

The Quest for Outer Space

Soviet Fires Earth Satellite into Space U.S. Satellite Is “Working Nicely” Russian Orbited the Earth Once, Observing It Through Portholes Glenn Orbits Earth 3 Times Safely Men Walk on Moon Postscript: Standby Update Moon Poem Voyage to the Moon Shuttle Rockets into Orbit on First Flight The Shuttle Explodes

Chapter 7: Life on Earth: Biology, Paleontology, Zoology

How Life Evolved

The Origin of Species Is Man Merely an Improved Monkey? First-Ever Re-Creation of New Species’ Birth Inherit the Windbags The Dance of Evolution, or How Art Got Its Start A Leading Mystery of Life’s Origins Is Seemingly Solved

The Prehistoric Record

Finder Says Fossil Links Ape and Man Two New Theories Offered on Mass Extinctions in Earth’s Past New Theory on Dinosaurs: Multiple Meteorites Did Them In A Prehistoric Giant Is Resurrected, if Only in Name

The World of Animals

Computer Helps Chimpanzees Learn to Read, Write and “Talk” to Humans Mating for Life? It’s Not for the Birds or the Bees Slow Is Beautiful

Chapter 8: Mathematics: Reality to Infinity

Chaos Is Defined by New Calculus Puzzle on Map Conjecture: Color It Solved But Aren’t Truth and Beauty Supposed to Be Enough? At Last, Shout of “Eureka!” in Age-Old Math Mystery The Spies’ Code and How It Broke The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities Don’t Expect Math to Make Sense

Chapter 9: Medicine: Outbreaks and Breakthroughs

Progress of the Germ Theory Ehrlich’s Remedy a Medical Wonder The Mold That Fights for the Life of Man Pills Are Tested in Birth Control Brady’s Recovery: Doctors Describe Dramatic Sequence of Lucky Moments Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals New Type of Drug for Cholesterol Approved and Hailed as Effective Poor Black and Hispanic Men Are the Face of HIV The Mysterious Tree of a Newborn’s Life: Fast Way to Try Many Drugs on Many Cancers

Chapter 10: Neuroscience: Secrets of the Brain

H. M., Whose Loss of Memory Made Him Unforgettable, Dies Sizing Up Consciousness by Its Bits In Tiny Worm, Unlocking Secrets of the Brain A Sense of Where You Are

Chapter 11: On Science and Scientists: People, Process and Portrayals

A Severe Strain on Credulity A Correction 5 Years After the Nobel: Portrait of a Man Obsessed With Science Uncovering Science: A Perpetual Student Charts a Course Through a Universe of Discoveries Colors Are Truly Brilliant in Trek Up Mount Metaphor The Birth of Science Times: A Surprise, but No Accident Gray Matter and Sexes: A Gray Area Scientifically Scientists Speak Up on Mix of God and Science A Sharp Rise in Retractions Prompts Calls for Reform

Chapter 12: Physics: Understanding the Inconceivable

The Atom and Its Parts

Scientists Witness Smash-Up of Atoms Finds Two Particles Make Up Neutrons Atom Bomb Based on Einstein Theory

The Forces That Shape the Universe

Lights All Askew in the Heavens Einstein Expounds His New Theory Researchers Slow Speed of Light to the Pace of a Sunday Driver Trillions of Reasons to Be Excited

Chapter 13: Technology: Invention and Revolution

The Science of Invention

Sound and Electricity The Röntgen Discovery Television Is Brought Nearer the Home Contact With Moon Achieved by Radar in Test by the Army Tiny Tube Excites Electronics Field Light Amplifier [The Laser]

The Computer Revolution

Electronic Computer Flashes Answers, May Speed Engineering The “Chip” Revolutionizes Electronics A Free and Simple Computer Link Look Officer, No Hands: Google Car Drives Itself

Acknowledgments Contributors’ Biographies

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