Vol. 183 No. #10
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More Stories from the May 18, 2013 issue

  1. Physics

    Sound cloaks enter the third dimension

    Concept could lead to sonar-defeating submarines or noise-cancelling highway barriers.

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  2. Life

    Molecule in meat may increase heart disease risk

    Gut bacteria transform compound into artery hardener.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Ovarian cancer drug candidate passes early clinical test

    An experimental medicine that uses a seek-and-destroy design to kill tumor cells may help some patients who face a recurrence.

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  4. Life

    A giant tortoise by any other name

    Long, heated battle ends with a moniker for the Indian Ocean reptile.

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  5. Life

    New technique gives see-through view into mouse brains

    Replacing fatty molecules turns organs transparent, allowing study of structure and function at the same time.

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  6. Humans

    Pottery cooked from the start

    Japanese sites yield late Stone Age evidence of people heating fish in ceramic vessels.

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  7. Physics

    Light journeys unimpeded along material’s surface

    A topological insulator for photons, exotic etched glass could improve optics-based communications.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Mental puzzles underlie music’s delight

    MRI reveals brain’s processing, and its pleasure, when a person listens to an enjoyable new tune.

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  9. Humans

    Ardi’s kind had a skull fit for a hominid

    Study of reconstructed skull section puts 4.4-million-year-old species in human evolutionary family.

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  10. Anthropology

    American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting

    Perhaps the oldest swatch of hominid skin yet found and –tzi the iceman’s Neandertal genetics are among the highlights from the physical anthropology meeting.

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  11. Cosmology

    Dark matter detector reports hints of WIMPs

    Experiment hundreds of meters underground detects three candidate signs of dark matter, though physicists are cautious about the finding.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Bioengineered kidney transplanted into rat

    Cleansed of cells and repopulated anew, bioengineered organ successfully produces urine.

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  13. Health & Medicine

    Colic in infancy linked to migraines later in childhood

    No tie found between colicky babies and later tension headaches.

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  14. Life

    Coelacanth is not closest fishy relative of terrestrial animals

    Genes of “living fossil” do reveal changes needed to live on dry land.

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  15. Life

    Bats are 3-D cartographers

    Special cells in the mammal’s brain chart its path as it flies.

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  16. Astronomy

    Most Earthlike planets yet seen bring Kepler closer to its holy grail

    Space telescope finds globes that, compared with our world, are slightly larger and orbit a smaller star.

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  17. Space

    American Physical Society meeting

    A supernova’s remnants possibly showing up in fossils and an explanation for the Crab Nebula are among highlights from the physics meeting.

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  18. Earth

    Yangtze’s age revealed

    Geologists narrow window on time of the Chinese river’s origin to 23-36 million years ago.

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  19. Earth

    Remnants of Earth’s crust survive in the planet’s interior

    A slab stayed unperturbed in the mantle for billions of years before resurfacing, sulfur measurements suggest.

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  20. Space

    Comet’s water still hanging around on Jupiter

    Shoemaker-Levy 9 supplied almost all of aqueous part of the planet's upper atmosphere.

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  21. Earth

    The ice keeper

    The Science Life.

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  22. SN Online

    GENES & CELLS See a roundup of some of the latest discoveries about China’s H7N9 virus in “ New bird flu claims more victims .” ENVIRONMENT Lake Erie is loaded with tiny pieces of plastic containing toxic pollutants. Read “Puny plastic particles mar Lake Erie’s waters.” HUMANS Male attractiveness relies on a combination of body […]

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  23. Upcoming events

    Science Future for May 18, 2013.

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  24. Science & Society

    A Renaissance Globemaker’s Toolbox

    Johannes Schöner and the Revolution of Modern Science 1474-1550 by John W. Hessler.

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  25. Science & Society

    Between Man and Beast

    An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel.

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  26. Physics

    A Palette of Particles by Jeremy Bernstein

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  27. Anthropology

    Paleofantasy

    What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk.

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  28. Health & Medicine

    Gulp

    Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach.

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  29. Animals

    Evolutionary enigmas

    Comb jelly genetics suggest a radical redrawing of the tree of life.

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  30. Earth

    Spinning the Core

    Laboratory dynamos attempt to generate magnetic fields the way planets and stars do.

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  31. Letters to the editor

    Ethics of humanized mice The recent stories “Human cells rev up mouse brains” (SN: 4/6/13, p. 16) and “Of mice and man” (SN: 3/23/13, p. 22) drove home to me that human-animal hybrids are now reality. In science fiction stories with such hybrids, a big part of the plot is the resultant ethical gray area: […]

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  32. Whistling noises give news from atmosphere

    Science Past from the issue of May 18, 1963.

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  33. Neuroscience

    Pieces of Light

    How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts by Charles Fernyhough.

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