Tiny Creatures, Part Plant and Part Animal, May Control the Fate of the Planet
Mixotrophs, tiny sea creatures that hunt like animals but grow like plants, can change everything from fish populations to rates of global warming
Features
Evolution Research Could Revolutionize Cancer Therapy
Evolutionary studies indicate that the genetic changes enabling a cancer to develop arise shockingly early within the primary tumor. This discovery points to a promising new approach to therapy...
Flashes in the Night: The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts
Astronomers are racing to figure out what causes powerful bursts of radio light in the distant cosmos
The Arctic Is Breaking Climate Records, Altering Weather Worldwide
The Arctic climate is shattering record after record, altering weather worldwide
Forestalling a Fatal Decision
Social scientists have begun to close in on new ways to stop people from taking their own lives
Brain Cells Communicate with Mechanical Pulses, Not Electric Signals
Physicists who have revived experiments from 50 years ago say nerve cells communicate with mechanical pulses, not electric ones
How Seashells Take Shape
Mathematical modeling reveals the mechanical forces that guide the development of mollusk spirals, spines and ribs
Departments
- From the Editor
Big Blue Marble: The Arctic, Mixotrophs and Other News about Our Ocean Planet
- Letters
Readers Respond to the December 2017 Issue
- Advances
Spot the Fake: Artificial Intelligence Can Produce Lifelike Photographs
Bonobos Might Not Be So Laid-Back after All
Culture Shapes How Children View the Natural World
New England Is Sitting on a Bed of Hot Rocks
Brain's "Brakes" Suppress Unwanted Thoughts
In Case You Missed It
A Glacier in Pakistan Surges with Clocklike Regularity
Programming a DNA Clock
Oil- and Gas-Drilling Noise Stresses Birds
Back to Black: How Birds-of-Paradise Get Their Midnight Feathers
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- Forum
To Keep NASA's Golden Age Alive, We Need More Telescopes--but Far Less Expensive Ones
- The Science of Health
Why Pancreatic Cancer Is on the Rise
- The Science Agenda
Why Aren't Psychologists Taught How to Prevent Suicides?
- TechnoFiles
Automobile Dashboard Technology Is Simply Awful
- Recommended
The Ultimate Dinosaur Biography, a Cosmological Caper and Other New Science Books
- Skeptic
The Number of Americans with No Religious Affiliation Is Rising
- Anti Gravity
Silliness and Scams Seem to Always Hitch a Ride with Human Activity
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
Industrial Steel Method from 1968; Industrial Candy in 1868
- Graphic Science
Reptiles Are Concentrated in Specific Locations, Often Unprotected
