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In the Sept. 2 SN: Cassini’s curtain call, next-gen birth control, gene editing in human embryos, neutrinos caught hitting nuclei, Canaanite DNA, pollination foiled by light pollution, a map of dark matter, an ancient sea worm and more.
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Reactor data hint at existence of fourth neutrino
A nuclear reactor experiment in China is providing new hints that a fourth type of neutrino, one more than the standard model of physics allows, may exist. - Reviews & Previews
BOOK REVIEW: The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack
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Lighting the universe
Scientists rethink what the first stars were like and how they formed. - News
Messages from Mercury
The latest data from a NASA spacecraft give compositional clues and reveal craters that could hold frozen water - News
Next solar cycle could be a no-show
Three lines of evidence suggest that the sun’s next activity cycle will be delayed for years and may not happen at all, an outcome that could have major implications for Earth’s climate. - Deleted Scenes
No new particle from second detector
The chances that the Tevatron is producing a previously unknown particle drop substantially after the collider's DZERO experiment finds nothing extraordinary. - News
Superdupernovas
A new class of stellar explosion is very bright — and somewhat hard to explain. - News
Black hole jets in HD
Images of unprecedented resolution offer insight into how black holes swallow up matter. - News
Survey captures local universe in 3-D
The most complete view to date of the nearby cosmos takes in 45,000 galaxies. - News
Milky Way may get an extension
A newly discovered feature at its fringes suggests the galaxy is an uncommon beauty: One half appears to be nearly a mirror image of the other.