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  1. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Genes for butterfly wings and maintaining maleness, plus turtles meet their lizard relatives and more in this week’s news.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Knights’ bodily burden, go-to-sleep nerve cells, rat empathy and more in this week’s news.

  3. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    The brain sleeps in shifts, plus thinking better with folate, how brains feel the beat and more in this week's news.

  4. Life

    Life

    Slacker fish, carnivorous pitfalls, a dinosaur gap and more in this week’s news.

  5. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Runaway planets, the return of Neptune and tricky antineutrinos in this week’s news.

  6. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Shaking off snake venom, flexible display screens and krill-sniffing penguins in this week's news.

  7. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Tracking carbon dioxide, fingerprinting uranium and understanding phthalates in boys in this week's news.

  8. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Human livers implanted in mice, plus new eye of newt, the potato genome and more in this week’s news.

  9. Science Past from the issue of July 29, 1961

    RADIATION SURVIVORS  — A world-wide radiation disaster might eventually give rise to two populations, research on bacteria indicates.… Starting with a culture of ordinary (wild-type) bacteria, the scientist added copper ions that produced a “disaster.” Most of the bacteria died…. But as time passed, a small number of survivors, called variants, began reproducing at a rapid […]

  10. Science Future for July 30, 2011

    August 8Hear an anthropologist speak in Houston on the evolving relationship between humans and water. Go to www.hmns.org August 12–13The weeklong Perseid meteor shower peaks. Watch after midnight. For more info go to http://bit.ly/Ln3pCr August 20In Ann Arbor, Mich., bring preschoolers on a morning hike to explore the outdoors. For more info, see www.lesliesnc.org

  11. SN Online

    BODY & BRAINInfants may learn speech sounds as they snooze. Read “Sleeping babies learn in an eyeblink.” LIFEResearchers find a natural screwlike joint — in a beetle’s hip. See “Weevils evolved nut-and-screw joint.” MATTER & ENERGY An acoustic cloak made of metamaterials reflects sound off a bump as though it were a flat wall. Read “You haven’t […]

  12. BOOK REVIEW: The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen

    Review by Erika Engelhaupt.