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  1. Humans

    Letters from the August 7, 2004, issue of Science News

    Pot shots Regarding “Pot on the Spot: Marijuana’s risks become blurrier” (SN: 5/22/04, p. 323: Pot on the Spot: Marijuana’s risks become blurrier), it seems to me that the stronger the social pressure against using marijuana in a culture, the more likely it will be that those who use it will be troubled, antisocial, or […]

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  2. From the August 4, 1934, issue

    Hard landing for stratospheric balloon flight, record drought in the Midwest, and chemical sprays to combat fog.

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  3. Paleontology

    Bird Brain? Cranial scan of fossil hints at flight capability

    Detailed computerized tomography scans of the fossilized braincase of an Archaeopteryx show that several flight-related regions of the feathered creature's brain were highly developed.