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Humans

From the October 13, 1934, issue

A wingless rooster, production of artificial radioactive elements, and novae proposed as the origin of cosmic rays.

Animals

Bird Calls

The Macaulay Library at Cornell University has the largest collection of animal sounds in the world. More than 67 percent of the world’s birds are represented in the center’s 160,000 recordings, along with sounds made by insects, fish, frogs, and mammals. The Library also archives and preserves a sampling of the behaviors of different animal […]

Health & Medicine

Dormant Cancer: Lack of a protein sends tumor cells to bed

Excess amounts of a protein called Myc triggers cancer in mice, but ratcheting back this supply sends the malignant cells into dormancy.