New Scientist goes beyond space and time: A special section on fractals, hyperspace and more. Seed editor Elizabeth Cline documents, chapter by chapter, her experience reading Why Does E=mc2? (and more) The Status Quark: Murray Gell-Mann reflects on matter’s building blocks and scientists’ resistance to new ideas (and more and more). A review of From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder That Inspired The Greatest Scientists of All Time in Their Own Words by John R. Guthrie. A review of Pavlov's Dogs and Schrodinger's Cat: Scenes from the Living Laboratory by Rom Harre. From PUP, the first chapter from Heaven's Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe by James B. Kaler. Does life exist in extraterrestrial locations as well? Astrobiology is a new kind of science, one that recently has been rapidly gathering momentum. Scientists are beginning to understand the extent to which the evolution of our planet has been shaped by collisions, bombardments and catastrophes. The numbers game: What’s in Earth orbit and how do we know? Is the Earth an organism? Michael Ruse on Gaia in the light of modern science. Genes that make us human: A team has pinpointed three genes that may help make our species unique. A review of But Is It Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy.