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More Stories from the July 2, 2011 issue

  1. Life

    Mellow corals beat the heat

    Species that overreact to distress signals from algae are more likely to succumb to warming.

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  2. Life

    Fish ignore alarming noises in acidifying seawater

    Something about changing ocean chemistry could make young clownfish behave oddly around normally alarming sounds.

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  3. Life

    Go deep, small worm

    A discovery in a South African mine suggests life can thrive far below the surface.

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  4. Humans

    Ancestral gals roamed, guys stayed home

    Females in two ancient hominid species may have left their home groups to find mates.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    A year adds up to big changes in brain

    Third grade brings big shifts in how kids use their heads to solve math problems.

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  6. Tech

    Information flow can reveal dirty deeds

    An analysis of Enron e-mails reveals that corrupt networks have a distinctive shape.

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  7. Space

    Black hole jets in HD

    Images of unprecedented resolution offer insight into how black holes swallow up matter.

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  8. Humans

    Site hints at Asian roots for human genus

    An early Homo species inhabited the Caucasus region 1.85 million years ago, casting doubt on its proposed African origin.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Drug prevents some breast cancers

    A hormone-blocking compound can waylay some malignancies in healthy women who are deemed at risk.

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  10. Life

    Weeds increasingly immune to herbicides

    Agricultural scientists warn that crop yields could drop as a result of emerging resistance.

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  11. Space

    Superdupernovas

    A new class of stellar explosion is very bright — and somewhat hard to explain.

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  12. Tech

    Social Networks

    Power networks in Congress, Twitter’s crystal ball and iPhone contagion in news from an MIT workshop on information in social media.

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  13. Chemistry

    Water-air interface barely there

    The transition between gas and liquid is an extremely insubstantial affair.

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  14. Life

    Diving spiders make their own gills

    Eurasian diving bell spiders, the only truly aquatic arachnids, survive underwater with the help of “physical gills,” scientists say.

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  15. Science Future for July 2, 2011

    July 7Be mesmerized by the color red and how it is made for pigments and paints, at San Francisco’s Exploratorium. Ages 18 and up. See www.exploratorium.edu/afterdark July 18In Washington, D.C., a Smithsonian science historian describes ancient apothecaries and their brews. See  www.residentassociates.org

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  16. Science Past from the issue of July 1, 1961

    WINTERGREEN VS. ALMOND IN ODOR PENETRATION TEST — Different chemicals produce different odors because vibrations within the molecules are different. This is the theory of Dr. R.H. Wright of the British Columbia Research Council  in Vancouver, Canada. He compared nitrobenzene, which has an almond smell, and methyl salicylate, which smells like wintergreen. Both these substances […]

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  17. From the Archive: Carp eat other fish out

    History repeats with another round of carp invasion.

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  18. The Dance of Air and Sea: How Oceans, Weather, and Life Link Together by Arnold H. Taylor

    An oceanographer explores the connectedness of the seas, atmosphere and weather, with implications for climate change. Oxford Univ. Press, 2011, 288 p., $29.95.

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  19. BOOK REVIEW: Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us by Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman

    Review by Devin Powell.

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  20. Evolution’s Wedges

    Finding the genes that drive one species into two.

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  21. Earth

    Death of a Continent, Birth of an Ocean

    Africa’s Afar region gives glimpses of geology in action.

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  22. Health & Medicine

    Mind-Controlled

    Linking brain and computer may soon lead to practical prosthetics for daily life.

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  23. Letters

    Your cosmic questions Regarding the “The vital statistics” in “Cosmic questions, answers pending” (SN: 4/23/11, p. 20), I was puzzled by two values: 13.75 billion years (time since the Big Bang) and 90 billion light-years (diameter of the universe). If light has been streaming away for 13.75 billion years, then shouldn’t the diameter of the […]

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  24. Animals

    SN Online

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  25. Finding Mars by Ned Rozell

    This travel yarn is set in the rugged regions of Earth, following permafrost scientist Kenji Yoshikawa as he traverses the frozen Arctic. Univ. of Alaska Press, 2011, 188 p., $22.95.

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