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  1. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Forecasting volcanic eruptions, plus saving mangroves and long-distance pollution in this week’s news.

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  2. Physics

    Screwy symmetry revealed

    Math trick that reverses spirals and other shapes that twist and turn should provide new ways to understand and design materials.

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  3. Math

    Cells take on traveling salesman problem

    With neither minds nor maps- chemical-sensing immune players do well with decades-old mathematical problem, a computer simulation reveals.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Food tastes less fatty to overweight people, plus an itch protein and thirsty rats in this week’s news.

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  5. Genes & Cells

    The genes for caffeine cravings, plus rare variants and shaping eyes in this week’s news.