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Magazine
In the July 6 SN: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, stone tool dates face scrutiny, ocean plastic goes deep, records of Inca taxation, erosion spurred plate tectonics and more.
January 19, 2019View Digital Issue
Editor's Note
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute reflects on the 150th anniversary of the invention of the periodic table by Dmitrii Mendeleev.
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Features
Feature
A pair of daredevil spacecraft that aim to bring asteroid dust back to Earth have reached their targets and are scouting for the best sampling spots.
Feature
150 years ago, Russian chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev created the periodic table of the elements, revolutionizing chemistry.
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The organized rows and columns of the Periodic Table hide a rich and twisting history.
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Features
A pair of daredevil spacecraft that aim to bring asteroid dust back to Earth have reached their targets and are scouting for the best sampling spots.
The organized rows and columns of the Periodic Table hide a rich and twisting history.
News
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft found signs of water and lots of boulders on the asteroid Bennu.
New data on the birth of tornadoes suggest that the twisters don’t form from the top down.
The tally of extreme weather events linked to climate change continues to grow, with new studies outlining links to more than a dozen events in 2017.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its first encounter with the sun and is sending data back to Earth.
New research has created self-cloning hybrid rice, raising hopes of higher food production.
Data from three families suggest that in rare cases children can inherit mitochondria from their fathers.
Growing mini tumors in a lab dish, researchers can screen compounds to find promising combinations for treating rare cancers.
Milking snakes for venom may soon no longer be needed to make antidotes for bites.
The same nerves and muscles that create goose bumps may make hair grow.
Two dark matter experiments disagree despite using the same type of detector material.
Infants born dependent on opioids had heads that were smaller than babies whose moms didn’t use the drugs during pregnancy.
The first wave of data from the PsychENCODE project holds new clues to how and when psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia emerge.
Long-awaited analyses of the Little Foot skeleton have researchers disagreeing over resurrecting a defunct species name.
DNA from an ancient strain of the plague-causing bacterium could help uncover the origins of the deadly disease.
The biggest black hole merger yet seen created one set of the spacetime ripples.
Scientists can dial the stiffness of a bizarre new type of synthetic material up or down using magnets.
Sharpshooters hurl their pee with structure called a stylus, which sends droplets flying at 20 times the acceleration of Earth’s gravity.
Notebook
The study of killer whales has come a long way since the capture of seven in 1968 allowed scientists to study the animals in their habitat.
This scientist is studying how meat changes as it rots to figure out what Neandertals might have eaten.
A survey suggests that nearly one-third of American adults are sleeping fewer than 6 hours a night, and minority groups are most affected.
There are more coral species lurking in the deep ocean that previously thought. That could be good news for their shallow water counterparts.
Reviews & Previews
The books ‘Beyond Weird’ and ‘What is Real?’ have different perspectives on what quantum physics says about reality.
Editor's Note
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute reflects on the 150th anniversary of the invention of the periodic table by Dmitrii Mendeleev.
Letters to the Editor
Readers had questions about electrons’ roundness, a camera that measures light intensity in decibels and more.