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- Archaeology
Notorious Bones
South African finds enter fray over origins of the human genus.
By Bruce Bower - Neuroscience
Memories lost and found
Drugs that help mice remember reveal role for epigenetics in recall.
By Susan Gaidos - Earth
Taking Antarctica’s temperature
Frozen continent may not be immune to global warming.
By Erin Wayman - Animals
Cicadas’ odd life cycle poses evolutionary conundrums
Scientists are getting an idea about the odd family tree of periodical cicadas, how the insects synchronize their life cycles and why they breed side-by-side with others unsuitable for mating.
By Susan Milius -
- Animals
In the Eye of the Tiger
Global spread of Asian tiger mosquito could fuel outbreaks of tropical disease in temperate regions.
- Physics
Hard times for theorists in a post-Higgs world
The Large Hadron Collider’s big success leaves no clear avenue for new physics.
By Andrew Grant -
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- Life
View to a cell
In 2013, Science News published a photo essay highlighting advances in microscopy that illuminate life within us, work that has now earned three researchers the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
- Psychology
Closed Thinking
Without scientific competition and open debate, much psychology research goes nowhere.
By Bruce Bower -