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Magazine
In the July 8 SN: DNA traces many roads to domestication, seeking quantum supremacy, the 25th anniversary of the qubit, bones’ secret messages, how monkeys see faces, redating Homo sapiens, a record-breaking gas giant, strange dragonfly wings and more.
- Reviews & Previews
The Smart Swarm by Peter Miller
- Reviews & Previews
Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control by James Rodger Fleming
- Letters to the Editor
Letters
- Comment
Treat science right and it could help save the world
- News
Forest loss slows in Brazilian Amazon
Between 2004 and 2009, the rate of clearing dropped almost 75 percent. - News
Warning for solar flares
Microwave bursts may serve as warning shots. - News
Rodent poop gauges ancient rains
The size of chinchilla pellets reveals past desert environment. - News
Whiffs of stiffs
Forensic scientists develop a new way to find where the bodies are buried. - News
All wet, or high and dry?
The moon’s interior contains far less water than Earth’s, new studies of rocks collected by Apollo astronauts suggest. - News
World of proteincraft
Players compete to solve scientific puzzles in an online computer game.