Cover Stories:

• The top 100 science stories of 1996:

• The ice-clad ocean of Europa

• Amazonian art before its time

• A heat-and-shrink ceramic

• Manatees and the red death

• Big as a meat eater can get?

• To live and die a Neanderthal

• Sperm limits set by egg cell

• Candy-colored chromosomes

• A lake under Antarctica

• Mars: the find of the century?

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