In the Jan. 25 SN: Rewiring injured brains, the coldest place on Earth, tracking fish with chaos theory and the Colorado River’s deep history.
January 25, 2014
ELISSA MONROE/UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER
- Feature
Tomorrow’s catch
A biologist who formerly applied his mathematical talents in finance has developed new ways of predicting the ups and downs of fish populations. - Feature
The long and winding Colorado
The history of the West’s iconic river is written in the dramatic landscapes it has shaped. How to interpret that chronicle has become a contentious issue among geologists. - News
Relic of early universe found nearby
A galaxy little changed since the dawn of the universe shows up in our celestial neighborhood. - Science Visualized
Bladderwort opens wide
Under a microscope, the tiny trap of a carnivorous plant becomes an impressive gaping maw. - News
Salt spices up chemistry
Hot, compressed sodium chloride stretches the fundamental rules of matter. - News in Brief
Neandertal genes point to interbreeding, inbreeding
DNA from 50,000 years ago underscores modest levels of mating across hominid populations. - News
China trumps Near East for signs of most ancient farm cats
Earliest evidence found for grain as a force in feline domestication. - News
Easter Island’s farmers cultivated social resilience, not collapse
A Polynesian society often presumed to have self-destructed shows signs of having carried on instead. - News
Exoplanet mass revealed in light
A new method could help identify habitable planets. - It's Alive
Sperm on a stick for springtails
Many males of the tiny soil organisms sustain their species by leaving drops of sperm glistening here and there in the landscape in case a female chooses to pick one up.