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In the Oct. 13 SN: 2018’s scientists to watch, superconductors heat up, the world’s oldest drawing, a sneaky superbug slayer, Ceres’ ice volcanoes, the birth of a neutron star, kidney stones close-up and more.
October 28, 2017View Digital Issue
Editor's Note
Acting Editor in Chief Elizabeth Quill says the passion to acquire knowledge and apply it lives in both engineers and scientists.
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192 No. 7
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October 28, 2017
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Features
Feature
Blood-sucking animals have specialized physiology and other tools to live on a diet rich in protein and lacking in some nutrients.
Feature
Scientists are developing a universal vaccine against flu, making annual shots a thing of the past.
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Editor's Note
Acting Editor in Chief Elizabeth Quill says the passion to acquire knowledge and apply it lives in both engineers and scientists.
Features
Scientists are developing a universal vaccine against flu, making annual shots a thing of the past.
Blood-sucking animals have specialized physiology and other tools to live on a diet rich in protein and lacking in some nutrients.
News
Researchers report finding 289 living Japanese marine species that washed up on American shores on debris from the 2011 East Japan earthquake and tsunami.
Behavioral economist Richard Thaler started influential investigations of behavioral economics, which earned him the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
A controversial group of chemicals called neonicotinoids has a global impact, tests of honey samples show.
Ancient DNA expands foragers’ social, mating networks.
An imaging technique that gives up-close 3-D views of proteins is honored in this year's chemistry Nobel Prize.
The New Horizons team searched for rings around Pluto, and found nothing. That suggests the spacecraft’s next destination might be ring-free too.
Pioneers of LIGO collaboration win for finding spacetime ripples from two spiraling black holes.
Circadian clock researchers take home the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
A mutation in a protein that helps Zika exit cells may play a big role in microcephaly.
A Sept. 29 ultrasecure quantum video chat demonstrates the potential for quantum communications across the globe.
LIGO and Virgo spot spacetime ripples in their first joint detection.
These robots change shape by slipping into different origami exoskeletons.
Upside-down jellyfish are the first known animals without a brain to enter a sleeplike state.
Frog brains help organize muscle and nerve patterns early in development.
Scientists studying dinosaur poop found that some duck-billed dinos cheated on their vegetarian diets by snacking on crustaceans.
A newly discovered hermit crab takes its cue from peanut worms and uses walking corals as a permanent shelter.
A new look at an old fossil shows that some species of baby ichthyosaurs may have dined on squid.
Genes from South African fossils suggest humans emerged close to 300,000 years ago.
Analyses of satellite images suggest that degraded forests now release more carbon than they store.
Notebook
Using CT scans, one orthopedic surgeon is on a quest to diagnose deformities in long-dead saber-toothed cats.
Fifty years ago, aviation experts tried helping commercial aircraft come to a stop during landing by catching them in massive nets. The idea crash-landed for commercial flights, but it’s still used in the military.
Almost 20 percent of U.S. teens have had at least one diagnosed concussion in the past, an analysis of a 2016 national survey finds.
Reviews & Previews
Geologists find clues to the future of deadly hurricanes, written in stone and sand, in the new NOVA documentary “Killer Hurricanes.”
'Rise of the Necrofauna' examines the technical and ethical challenges of bringing woolly mammoths and other long-gone creatures back from the dead.
Special Relativity and Classical Theory and The Physical World offer deep dives into physical reality’s mathematical foundations.
Letters to the Editor
Readers had questions about brain flexibility, black sea snakes and photon collisions.
Science Visualized
Hundreds of marine animals from Japan have washed up on U.S. beaches since the destructive 2011 earthquake and tsunami.