Making superheavies may reveal island of stability (p. 26)

Researchers brainstorm radical ways to counter climate change (p. 16)

How antidepressants may subtly alter a growing baby’s brain (p. 22)

After years of looking, geneticists are shocked to find that 1 percent to 4 percent of DNA in people from Europe and Asia is inherited from Neandertals. (p. 5)

Reversing a chemical change restored the animals’ memory-making ability. (p. 8)

Scientists discover a mechanism that makes some people resistant to infection with the AIDS virus. (p. 8)

Studies of rats reveal neuron activity changes en masse during aha moments. (p. 9)

Study finds alterations in genes tied to immune system and brain development, but whether they cause the disorder remains unclear. (p. 9)

Patients with the hereditary condition score worse on standardized tests than people without it. (p. 9)

People who undergo virtual-reality perspective shifts feel like they’ve switched bodies with a virtual character. (p. 10)

Grieving people rarely regret having seen a dead loved one, even in cases of violent death, a British study suggests. (p. 10)

The cosmic bullies that sent 30 Doradus 016 reeling must be even bigger, possibly upping the theoretical maximum heft of today’s stars. (p. 11)

Phobos may be a mass of rocky rubble, not a captured asteroid. (p. 11)

The feathers of Archaeopteryx and Confuciusornis probably were not strong enough to support sustained flight. (p. 12)

A major tenet of evolutionary theory — that all life stems from a common source — passes a statistical test. (p. 12)

Dips in Earth's gravitational field are tied to 'slab graveyards' (p. 13)

Researchers get a better understanding of how mice smell a rat, or a cat, and maybe even a snake. (p. 14)

Bisphenol A’s ‘twin’ may be more potent at perturbing estrogen signals. (p. 14)

Global high school science competition concludes with top prizes going to projects on cancer-fighting quantum dots, quantum computer algorithms and computer programming. (p. 15)

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