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[PHOTOGRAPH] A sculpture of a stack of books: "Modern Book Printing" [Photograph © Lienhard Schulz, licensed Creative Commons Attribution 2.5; permission for sculpture image use granted by Scholz & Friends Sensai, agency of "Walk of Ideas" per http://bit.ly/5nD5 ]

Award-Winning Science Books for Kids

[8 February 2012]

Books on vanishing frogs and secretive seabirds were among the winners of the 2012 AAAS/Subaru Science Books & Film Prize for Excellence in Science Books.

[PHOTOGRAPH] The U.S. Capitol building [Photo © and licensed by Getty Images]

Climate Science: Building Trust on Capitol Hill

[7 February 2012]

About 30 U.S. scientists visited elected officials and congressional staff for an intensive day of talking, and listening, about the science and policy of climate change.

[ILLUSTRATION] A molecule of DNA composed of words from the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, from a SRHRL human rights poster

Climate Change and Indigenous Rights

[6 February 2012]

As climate change disrupts environments, it threatens the traditional lifestyle of indigenous peoples. That raises a range of science and human rights issues, speakers said at AAAS.

[ILLUSTRATION] A flag in a Florence flask [Art by Michael Greisman for Triple-A-S]

Campaign 2012: S&T Issues in the U.S. Presidential Race

[3 February 2012]

The new AAAS Web site, Science and Technology in the 2012 Presidential Election, is a one-stop source of information on U.S. presidential candidates and their stands on S&T issues.

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Science Policy

[PHOTOGRAPH] Large-scale industrial agriculture at the 'Gambella 2' location on 4 May 2011 [Satellite image © 2011 DigitalGlobe, Inc. Location: 34°29’17.93”E, 7°51’10.5”N]

AAAS Study: Ethiopian Policy Displaces Farmers

[17 January 2012]

A study by the AAAS Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project confirms that local farmers are being moved, possibly to make way for large commercial farm projects.

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Education

[PHOTOGRAPH] Interior spectra created by multiple prisms within the Dwan Light Sanctuary, on the campus of the United World College [Image © Ingrid Truemper, licensed Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0. Image source: http://j.mp/yy1G3E ]

Physics Program Creates Student Experts

[27 January 2012]

Undergraduates put rote learning aside and create their own scientific experiments in Explorations in Physics, winner of the new Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction.

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International

A Crucial Step Toward Global Science

[5 January 2012]

At the World Science Forum in Budapest, leaders from AAAS and around the world urged nations to align their science standards and practices to aid international cooperation.

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Public Engagement

[PHOTOGRAPH] “Metabolomic Eye,” is a metabolic snapshot of the diversity of cells in a mouse eye retina, derived from a technique called computational molecular phenotyping

[Image courtesy of Bryan William Jones, The University of Utah, Moran Eye Center]

Beautiful New Ways to See Science

[2 February 2012]

From posters to online games, the winners in the 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge created compelling art from complex science problems.

[PHOTOGRAPH] Science World Vancouver [Photo © Flickr user 'Awesome K,' http://j.mp/yA0jiN , licensed Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Image source: http://j.mp/AwWzms ]

AAAS to Convene in Vancouver, B.C.

[23 January 2012]

Thousands of top scientists from some 50 nations will attend the AAAS Annual Meeting 16-20 February under the theme “Flattening the World: Building a Global Knowledge Society.”

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