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  1. Archaeology

    Acrobat’s last tumble

    Sacrificial offerings in an ancient Mesopotamian building included a beheaded acrobat, a new skeletal analysis suggests.

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  2. Letters, June 21, 2008 Issue

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  3. From Science News Letter, June 21, 1958

    New Shock Treatment — Neither electric stimulation nor convulsion may be necessary components in the electroshock treatment of certain types of mental illness…. A group of 97 mental patients … were assigned at random to one of five treatment groups: 1. conventional electroshock therapy (EST); 2. a combination of EST and the drug, anectine; 3. […]

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  4. Science Future

    June 30–July 3 The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.