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In the May 11 & 25 SN: High-tech cricket farming, AI learns from Minecraft, looking for lithium, a new hominid species is named, signs of life in dead pig brains, Cherokee cave texts decoded, water molecules on the moon and more.
February 2, 2019View Digital Issue
Editor's Note
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses Science News' coverage of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft's flyby of Ultima Thule.
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February 2, 2019
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Features
Feature
Kilauea’s 2018 eruption allowed volcanologists a clear window into the processes that have shaped and influenced the world’s most watched volcano.
Feature
Once seen as a supplement with a long list of benefits, vitamin D’s glow may be dimming.
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Editor's Note
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses Science News' coverage of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft's flyby of Ultima Thule.
Features
Kilauea’s 2018 eruption allowed volcanologists a clear window into the processes that have shaped and influenced the world’s most watched volcano.
Once seen as a supplement with a long list of benefits, vitamin D’s glow may be dimming.
News
A new chemical road map for a process called photorespiration in plant cells could reduce energy waste to increase plant productivity.
The TESS exoplanet hunter has spotted eight confirmed worlds in its first four months, and several of them are really weird.
Fast-multiplying insects with earthworm powers have invaded Antarctica, and scientists are worried about how their waste could affect the continent.
Experiments in rats show that a new soft device could help alleviate frequent, sudden urges to urinate.
New technology for analyzing genetic data quickly in the field guided how Nigeria dealt with an outbreak of Lassa fever in 2018.
China’s Chang’e-4 lander and rover just became the first spacecraft to land on the farside of the moon.
Blobs of worms flow like a fluid, plop like a solid and fascinate scientists.
A burst of light from far away may have been an odd type of exploding star or a white dwarf being eaten by a black hole.
In some forms of autism, nerve cells develop faster than normal, possibly setting the stage for the disorder, a study finds.
Infertile women with endometriosis have a reduced amount of a protein found to be important for establishing pregnancy in mice, a study finds.
Astronomers have spotted a second repeating fast radio burst, and it looks a lot like the first.
Ultima Thule’s snowmanlike shape shows the New Horizons target was probably two space rocks that got stuck together.
A new machine that levitates objects using sound waves can manipulate several particles at once.
A honeybee queen’s absence in the colony triggers some workers to turn queen-like and lay eggs, sometimes in other colonies.
Tooth tartar unveils an expert female manuscript painter buried at a German monastery.
A newly discovered protein found exclusively in mosquitoes may one day help control their numbers.
Zirconium-88 captures neutrons with extreme efficiency, and scientists don’t yet know why.
Adult mice hearts have no stem cells, a study finds. The same may be true for people, and that’s not welcome news for those who’ve had a heart attack.
Notebook
In the 1960s, researchers proposed preventing a big earthquake by creating smaller ones. That hasn’t quite worked out.
Scientists have coined a new term — “in fimo” — to describe studies focused on feces.
Reviews & Previews
In the book ‘Gods and Robots,’ a scholar recounts how early civilizations explored artificial life through myths.
In ‘Good to Go,’ science writer Christie Aschwanden puts science — and herself — to the test for the sake of sports recovery.
Letters to the Editor
Readers had questions about Parkinson’s disease, the new definition of a kilogram’s mass, Saturn’s moon Dione and more.
Science Visualized
A new study provides evidence of plumelike structures in ancient flying reptiles.