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  1. Health & Medicine

    Let Them Eat Cake: Altered mice stay svelte on a high-fat diet

    A protein that links gluttony and weight gain may be a novel target for antiobesity drugs.

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  2. From the June 18, 1932, issue

    MUDDY MISSISSIPPI YIELDS PEARLS THAT RIVAL ORIENT’S Pearls we usually picture as coming up from limpid greenish tropical sea depths, in the fingers (or perhaps the mouth) of a swimming brown-skinned native. It seems a bit of a comedown to think of pearls coming out of the prosaic waters of the muddy Mississippi–and as a […]

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  3. Physics

    Super Conductors

    Materials that conduct electricity without resistance are known as superconductors.