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- Humans
DNA reveals details of the peopling of the Americas
Migrants came in three distinct waves that interbred once in the New World.
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Letters to the editor
Bohr no boor As described in “When the atom went quantum,” (SN: 7/13/13, p. 20), Bohr’s willingness to travel both paths when different viewpoints seemed to clash, yet both seemed to fit the data, was crucial to the development of quantum mechanics. Yet that willingness cannot be equated with acceptance of all possible views. Having […]
By Science News - Physics
Key to Other Worlds
Excerpt from the August 17, 1963, issue of Science News Letter.
By Science News - Climate
The Attacking Ocean
The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels by Brian Fagan.
By Erin Wayman - Neuroscience
The Autistic Brain
Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek.
By Meghan Rosen - Science & Society
Impactful Distraction
Talking while driving poses dangers that people seem unable to see.
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- Tech
Online ‘likes’ multiply themselves
Social media users swayed by previous ratings, researchers find when they randomly assign positive and negative votes.
- Health & Medicine
Camels implicated as possible hosts of MERS virus
Antibodies to a mysterious pathogen that has sickened 94 people were found in camels in Oman and the Canary Islands.
- Earth
Emissions could fuel global warming for millennia
Climate simulation projects effects of greenhouse gases farther into the future than ever before.