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  1. Physics

    Extreme Impersonations

    By creating tiny clouds of remarkable new kinds of ultracold gases, physicists are, in essence, bringing to their lab benches chunks of some of the most extraordinary and hard-to-study matter in the universe.

    By Peter Weiss
  2. Anthropology

    In the Neandertal Mind

    Neandertals possessed much the same mental capacity as ancient people did, but a genetically inspired memory boost toward the end of the Stone Age may have allowed Homo sapiens to prosper while Neandertals died out.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Math

    Flight of the Bumblebee

    The notion that scientists proved bumblebees can't fly has a long legacy.

    By Ivars Peterson
  4. Humans

    From the September 8, 1934, issue

    Ditches on the moon's surface, 12,000-year-old bones and dart points, and nature as waves of knowledge in the mind.