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Magazine
In the Sept. 15 SN: The plant microbiome revolution, Parker probe’s stellar tech, the first RNAi drug approved, video fakery, a puzzling lemur fossil, how elephants dodge cancer, supersmooth desalination, really old cheese and more.
August 18, 2018View Digital Issue
Editor's Note
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the future of water and global issues associated with water scarcity and rising sea levels.
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194, No. 4
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August 18, 2018
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Features
Feature
Saltwater is winning in the Everglades as sea levels rise and years of redirecting freshwater flow to support agriculture and population growth
Feature
By 2050, half the world’s population may no longer have safe water to drink or grow food. What then?
Feature
For coastal megacities like Mumbai, rising seas and weather chaos linked with climate change threaten economic and social disaster.
Call to Action
Editor's Note
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the future of water and global issues associated with water scarcity and rising sea levels.
Features
For coastal megacities like Mumbai, rising seas and weather chaos linked with climate change threaten economic and social disaster.
By 2050, half the world’s population may no longer have safe water to drink or grow food. What then?
Saltwater is winning in the Everglades as sea levels rise and years of redirecting freshwater flow to support agriculture and population growth
News
Amber preserves the delicate bone structure of a 99 million year old baby snake.
Having antibodies to a sugar tied to red-meat allergy is associated with more plaque in the artery walls, a small study shows.
Social amoebas that farm bacteria for food use proteins to preserve the crop for their offspring.
For the first time, general relativity has been confirmed in the region near a supermassive black hole.
Wounds in the mouth heal speedily thanks to some master regulators of immune reactions.
A new strategy at the Very Large Telescope lets astronomers take space telescope–quality pictures from the ground.
Aggressively treating high blood pressure had a modest positive effect on the development of an early form of memory loss.
For the first time, researchers have built circuits on microscopic chips that can be mixed into an aerosol spray.
A 15-year-old Mars orbiter has spotted signs of a salty lake beneath the Red Planet’s south polar ice sheets.
Astronomers found a dozen previously unknown moons of Jupiter, and one may be a remnant of a larger moon that was all but ground to dust.
America’s air is getting cleaner — except in places that are prone to wildfires.
Replacing missing gut microbes improves autism symptoms in children even two years later.
Strange entities called collexons hint at undiscovered physics among interacting subatomic particles in a semiconductor.
A bacteria found in leeches becomes drug resistant after only a small exposure to common antibiotics.
A year ago, an iceberg calved off of the Larsen C ice shelf. The hunk of ice hasn’t moved much since, and that has scientists keeping an eye on it.
Neutrinos and light travel at essentially the same speed, as predicted.
A machine that gently catches and releases animals underwater could help researchers take a more detailed census of the deep sea.
Notebook
Pig-tail macaques are seen as a menace on Malaysian palm oil plantations, but may be helping to reduce rodent populations.
For over 20 years, the U.S. government tried to subdue hurricanes through cloud seeding, with mixed results.
The newly defined Meghalayan Age began at the same time as a global, climate-driven event that led to human upheavals.
Reviews & Previews
In The Most Unknown, a film on Netflix, a research round robin leads to fascinating discussions about scientific questions.
A close look at unusual brains offers a way to understand how the human mind is constructed, two new books argue.
Letters to the Editor
Readers had questions about Antarctic ice melting, dark fusion and greenhouse gas emissions.
Science Visualized
Scientists compiled 21 million images to craft the highest-resolution view yet of the fruit fly brain.