By Science News Staff

Web edition: August 10, 2012
Print edition: August 25, 2012; Vol.182 #4 (p. 4)

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Credit: Courtesy Helmut Tischlinger, Eichstätt Museum of the Jurassic

ON THE SCENE BLOG
The man at the rover lab’s helm talks to Science News. See “A lifetime of curiosity: An interview with JPL director Charles Elachi.”

LIFE
An unusually well-preserved fossil suggests dino ancestors were fluffy. Read “All dinosaurs may have had feathers.”

HUMANS
DNA tracks Jewish migrations out of the Middle East. See “North African Diaspora written in genes.”

SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC BLOG
Scientists debate a possible melanoma outbreak among coral trout in “Epidemic of skin lesions reported in reef fish.”