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Computing

Forecasting by computer

Excerpt from the August 10, 1963, issue of Science News Letter.

Neuroscience

Brainwashed

The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld.

Genetics

The Sports Gene

Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein.

Neuroscience

The Anorexic Brain

Neuroimaging improves understanding of eating disorder.

Planetary Science

Cassini photo puts Earth in perspective

Probe captures planet from 1.4 billion kilometers away.

Health & Medicine

Full moon may mean less sleep

Slumber waxes and wanes along with lunar rhythm, researchers find with people sleeping in windowless lab.

Health & Medicine

Gastric bypass surgery causes sugar-burning gut growth in rats

The rapid improvement in symptoms of diabetes, seen in patients before weight loss begins, may be due to changes in part of the intestine.

Life

A flash of light implants false memories in mice

Researchers alter rodents' recollections by exciting just a few neurons.

Archaeology

Notorious Bones

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

Environment

Atomic ant sand

Robb Hermes asked for sand ants to get samples of Trinitite, a material created in the test blasts of the first atomic bomb.

Animals

Eye-tracking cameras show peahens’ wandering gaze

Data show that female birds are not so riveted by their suitors’ magnificence

Space

Mars meteorite reveals its age

Long difficult to estimate, date of space rocks' formation emerges with new technique.