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In the Aug. 5 SN: Seismologists study North Korea’s nukes, souped up solar cells, Larsen C finally cracks through, marshmallow test goes to Africa, bacteria’s mysterious architecture, an entanglement distance record, solar eclipse paths to come and more.
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The Anorexic Brain
Neuroimaging improves understanding of eating disorder. - Feature
Notorious Bones
South African finds enter fray over origins of the human genus. - News
Gas, not planets, may be source of rings around stars
Interactions between gas and dust may form elliptical patterns. - People
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. - News in Brief
Size isn't only mystery of huge virus
A strange replication method and an unusual genetic sequence are among the mysteries of the outsized Pandoravirus. - News in Brief
Under magnet's sway, fluids form simple structures
Droplets wiggle, split and coalesce into simple and dynamic configurations. - News
War arose recently, anthropologists contend
Infrequent killings among hunter-gatherer groups fit a scenario of a largely peaceful Stone Age, a study concludes. - News
Surgical tool smokes out cancer in seconds
Sniffing for telltale molecules, method analyzes tissue with every cut. - News
Technique inactivates Down-causing chromosome
Though far from a cure, the advance could eventually lead to gene therapy that alleviates some symptoms. - News
Fattened livers prep white sharks for extreme migrations
The organ's reserves enable a long journey from waters off California to Hawaii and back, tracking data suggest.