Find out how ancient Mediterranean art can help conservation, how smart headlights see through rain, whether jays are smarter than kids and more in the Advances section of Scientific American's October issue. Links to relevant research papers and other online material are listed below. —Marissa Fessenden

The Exposure Cure
The new study on egg allergy immunotherapy is online here, in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Snap Judgment
A longer version of the story is available here. Researchers described the ultrafast camera in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Stealing for Biodiversity
A video accompanies the longer version of this story. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA published the research pinning tropical palm seed dispersal on agoutis.

Sergei Petrovich Kapitza
The original blog post appeared here and includes a video retrospective of Kapitza's work by Evident, but Incredible, the award-winning television show he hosted.

Primordial Pinwheel
An online version of this article is posted here. The galaxy also starred in the first episode of Scientific American's online show The Countdown. Researchers reported this finding in Nature. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)

Bird Brains
Jays and human children faced off in research published in PLOS ONE. The story was also reported in Scientific American's 60-Second Science podcast.

Seeing in the Rain
The full post appeared in the Scientific American Observations blog. The researchers explained their smart headlights here.

The Art of Fishing
Researchers published their analysis of grouper fishing as depicted in ancient mosaics in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment here, behind a pay wall.

Coding Her Way to the Top
Read more about July's Google Science Fair, meet other winners and read a longer Q&A with Brittany Wenger on Scientific American's Budding Scientist blog.

A "Just Right" Guitar
A published abstract of the researcher's Acoustics 2012 conference talk is online here.

Patent Watch 
R. Andrew Hicks, inventor of the wide-angle, nondistorting mirror, has pictures, explanations and more on his website.

Stuff that Designs Itself
Find the new study on self-assembling nanoparticles behind a paywall here in Science. A longer version of the story was posted online.

Underground Network
The original post on plants' bacteria appeared on the Lab Rat blog.

Urge to Merge
Physicist Kip Thorne wrote about gravitational-wave detectors in Science (behind a pay wall). Scientific American discussed the article in the staff's Observations blog.

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