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August 19, 2017View Digital Issue
Editor's Note
Acting Editor in Chief Elizabeth Quill discusses how the natural world feeds our sense of wonder.
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192 No. 2
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August 19, 2017
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Features
Feature
Researchers acknowledge that there’s no getting rid of ticks, so they are developing ways to make them less dangerous.
Feature
New research on the 1994 Rwanda genocide overturns assumptions about why people participate in genocide. A sense of duty, not blind obedience, drives many perpetrators.
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Editor's Note
Acting Editor in Chief Elizabeth Quill discusses how the natural world feeds our sense of wonder.
Features
New research on the 1994 Rwanda genocide overturns assumptions about why people participate in genocide. A sense of duty, not blind obedience, drives many perpetrators.
Researchers acknowledge that there’s no getting rid of ticks, so they are developing ways to make them less dangerous.
News
Copper for the ancient Iceman’s blade traveled about 500 kilometers to his northern Italian home region.
Genetic studies reveal more secrets of the bizarre creatures known as tardigrades.
It turns out that thin films of copper don’t lay flat, a discovery that has implications for computers and handheld electronics.
A galaxy may swipe up to half of its atoms from other galaxies, making the Milky Way mostly extragalactic stuff, new simulations suggest.
Scientists have genetically modified chrysanthemums to be “true blue” for the first time.
A self-selected sample of 202 deceased football players, the largest to date, finds that the majority suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Global warming could force airplanes to carry a lighter load — and fewer passengers —on each flight.
Jupiter-mass planets without parent solar systems are less common than astronomers thought, a new study suggests.
Certain bacteria found on the penis raise the risk of HIV infection, a new study finds.
Dog domestication may be the result of just a few genetic changes, including ones that made canines more interested in interacting with people.
Australia may have said “G’day” to humankind thousands of years earlier than previously believed.
Scientists probe information retained by Maxwell’s demon.
Clever birds may have evolved their own broad powers of apelike thinking about the future.
In mice, nerve cells in the prefrontal cortex influence whether an individual is dominant or submissive.
A distant object may be the first exomoon detected.
Scientists found evidence of a particle that is its own antiparticle.
For the first time in any animal, researchers elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV. Cows’ antibodies could help with drug development.
Notebook
Deep-sea tube worms can live decades longer than their shallow-water counterparts.
Scientists reveal a new twist on the unusual properties of spider silk.
An exquisitely preserved fossil shows that an ancient armored reptile called Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi wasn’t aquatic, as scientists had suspected.
Today, scientists are still trying to improve steel.
As the cholera epidemic rages on in war-torn Yemen, basic hygiene is the first line of defense.
Reviews & Previews
A new TV documentary is a tender tribute to Voyagers 1 and 2, which launched 40 years ago and were the first spacecraft to visit the outer solar system.
Letters to the Editor
Readers responded to fish lips, monkey brains, sunless tanner and more.
Science Visualized
New analysis delves into the mystery of why medium-sized animals are speedier than bigger ones.