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October 13, 2018View Digital Issue
Editor's Note
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses this year's 10 scientists to watch and the ups and downs of the scientific endeavor.
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194, No. 7
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October 13, 2018
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Features
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With a drive to understand how things work, these young researchers are making a mark in sustainable energy, medicine, astronomy and technology.
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Merging psychology with engineering, Shahzeen Attari probes how people think about conservation, energy use and climate change.
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Using chemistry to peer at the microbial world, Emily Balskus is revealing how microbes influence human health.
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Biophysicist Ibrahim Cissé finds clues in raindrops and morning dew about how genes are activated.
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Planetary scientist Christopher Hamilton uses Earth’s volcanic structures are a blueprint for how lava shapes other worlds.
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Astrophysicist Paula Jofré is a galactic archaeologist, mapping out generations of stars.
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Physicist Lisa Manning probes how physical forces influence cell behavior in asthma and other conditions.
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Electrochemist Joaquín Rodríguez-López is finding better ways to store wind and solar power.
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Computer scientist Anshumali Shrivastava is designing programs that can handle torrents of information quickly and efficiently.
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Theoretical physicist Douglas Stanford is linking some of the most massive objects known to the quantum realm.
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Evolutionary anthropologist Jenny Tung is untangling the many health effects of life as a social animal.
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Features
With a drive to understand how things work, these young researchers are making a mark in sustainable energy, medicine, astronomy and technology.
Merging psychology with engineering, Shahzeen Attari probes how people think about conservation, energy use and climate change.
Using chemistry to peer at the microbial world, Emily Balskus is revealing how microbes influence human health.
Biophysicist Ibrahim Cissé finds clues in raindrops and morning dew about how genes are activated.
Planetary scientist Christopher Hamilton uses Earth’s volcanic structures are a blueprint for how lava shapes other worlds.
Astrophysicist Paula Jofré is a galactic archaeologist, mapping out generations of stars.
Physicist Lisa Manning probes how physical forces influence cell behavior in asthma and other conditions.
Electrochemist Joaquín Rodríguez-López is finding better ways to store wind and solar power.
Computer scientist Anshumali Shrivastava is designing programs that can handle torrents of information quickly and efficiently.
Theoretical physicist Douglas Stanford is linking some of the most massive objects known to the quantum realm.
Evolutionary anthropologist Jenny Tung is untangling the many health effects of life as a social animal.
News
The record for the highest-temperature superconductor may be toast.
The Stone Age line design could have held special meaning for its makers, a new study finds.
Human skeletal stem cells have been found for the first time.
Traces of cholesterol still clinging to a group of enigmatic Ediacaran fossils suggests the weird critters were animals, not fungi or lichen.
Healthy elderly adults don’t benefit from a daily dose of aspirin, according to results from a large-scale clinical trial.
The claim that poor children hear fewer words than kids from higher-income families faces a challenge.
Wetlands can survive and even thrive despite rising sea levels — if humans give them room to grow.
Scientists have developed a molecule that kills off bacteria that are resistant to existing antibiotics.
Scientists say they’ve witnessed a type of neutron star called a pulsar being born in the wake of a massive supernova for the first time.
Graphene-based electronics that operate at terahertz frequencies would be much speedier successors to today’s silicon-based devices.
A new technique reveals how to make bubbles from droplets suspended in the air.
Kidney stones are dynamic entities that grow and dissolve, a new study finds, which contradicts the prevailing medical assumption.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spied a vortex growing high over Saturn’s north pole, whose hexagonal shape mirrors a famous underlying cyclone.
Notebook
Old seeds can sprout new plants even after centuries of dormancy.
A new estimate of the number of human genes adds in some RNA-producing genes.
Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell speaks about winning the Breakthrough Prize, impostor syndrome and giving back
A loggerhead shrike that skewers small animals on barbed wire gives mice whiplash shakeups.
Science Visualized
The slumped remains of 21 ice volcanoes suggest that the dwarf planet Ceres has been volcanically active for billions of years.
Letters to the Editor
Readers had questions about the significance of finding water on mars, air pollution from wildfires and spray-on sensors.
Editor's Note
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses this year's 10 scientists to watch and the ups and downs of the scientific endeavor.
Reviews & Previews
The new book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Event Horizon Telescope’s attempt to image a black hole.