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Neuroscience

The Anorexic Brain

Neuroimaging improves understanding of eating disorder.

Archaeology

Notorious Bones

South African finds enter fray over origins of the human genus.

Neuroscience

Memories lost and found

Drugs that help mice remember reveal role for epigenetics in recall.

Earth

Taking Antarctica’s temperature

Frozen continent may not be immune to global warming.

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.

Particle Physics

When the atom went quantum

Bohr's revolutionary atomic theory turns 100.

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.

Planetary Science

Mystery Meteorite

The case for (and against) a rock from Mercury.

Life

Life Support

Studies reveal the placenta’s crucial role in healthy pregnancies.

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.