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From the May 2, 1931, issue
HOLDER OF PRIESTLY OFFICE CARVED ABOUT 2400 B.C. Good sculptors, those Sumarians who lived in the land around about Ur of the Chaldees 4,000 years ago! This weeks cover picture shows the upper portion of a broken life-sized statue found at the city of Lagash, north of Ur. The features, finely cut, portray a man […]
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Teams find probable gene for sweet sense
Two labs tasted victory in a race to identify a candidate gene for controlling our proverbial sweet tooth.
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Senior bees up all night caring for larvae
Honeybees turn out to be the first insect known to change circadian rhythms just because of a social cue, a crisis in the nursery.
- Tech
New device opens next chapter on E-paper
Researchers have developed a paperlike plastic that could become the pages of the first electronic books and newspapers.
- Paleontology
Did fibers and filaments become feathers?
A variety of filamentary structures on the fossil of a small theropod dinosaur recently found in China may provide new insight into the evolution of feathers.
- Health & Medicine
Novel typhoid vaccine surpasses old ones
A new vaccine links a sugar molecule found on the surface of the bacterium that causes typhoid fever with a genetically engineered version of the exotoxin protein, which arouses the immune system to churn out antibodies against the bacterium.
- Anthropology
Peru Holds Oldest New World City
Construction of massive ceremonial buildings and residential areas at a Peruvian site began 4,000 years ago, making it the earliest known city in the Americas.
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When parents let kids go hungry
Researchers comparing Northern and Southern birds have confirmed a prediction about parents protecting themselves at their offsprings' expense.
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Weather cycles may drive toad decline
For the first time, scientists have linked a global climate pattern to a specific mechanism of amphibian decline.
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Worm sperm stimulate ovulation
A sperm protein for movement also prompts egg maturation and ovulation.
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Huntington’s protein may be kidnapper
An abnormal protein associated with Huntington's disease kills cells by stealing another protein needed for cell survival.
- Astronomy
Solar cannibalism
Billion-ton clouds of charged gas hurled from the sun can overtake and eat their slower-moving gaseous brethren, complicating predictions of when and if one of these clouds might strike Earth.
