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A look at the latest information on the moons of the solar system (including our own), with emphasis on the Cassini mission’s images of Enceladus and Titan. An interview with Carolyn Porco, leader of the imaging science team for the Cassini mission and imaging advisor for the new Star Trek film. (Query deadline, August 3, 2009)

A look at the journey of the horse (55,000 years ago to the present). Genus Equus (modern horses, zebras, asses, donkeys). Are horses native to North America? Social lives of wild horses, the diminishing “range,” horse “gathers”— humane or not? To own a horse. (Query deadline, September 4, 2009)

A look inside Earth for naturally formed mineral and petrified matter. How it got there. How we find and retrieve it. Marble, gemstones, soapstone and more. (Query deadline, October 15, 2009)

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, an organism that combines natural and artificial systems. People who have an insulin pump, glucose monitor, artificial heart, pacemaker, or a neural network-controlled prosthesis are part borg. This issue will look at high-tech’s role in improving life for many of us. (Query deadline, November 20, 2009)

How methods of magic work in the brain. How to make anything disappear. The covert manipulation of attention and awareness, neural adaptation, illusions, afterimages, optical illusions, cognitive illusions, in-attention blindness. (Query deadline, December 30, 2009)

Everything that’s cool about ice. How does a Zamboni work? How are crops protected with ice? Ice in first-aid, icing on airplane wings. Why is ice always 32 degrees F? Ice ages, ice fishing, the Greenland ice sheet and more. (Query deadline, May 29, 2009)