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Latest News

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  Sydney Brenner, pioneer of molecular biology, dies at 92

  BY JENNIFER COUZIN-FRANKELAPR. 5, 2019

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  Top stories: Science and the slave trade, tweeting and (not) flying, and Snowball Earth’s thaw

  BY ALEX FOXAPR. 5, 2019

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  Fecal transplants could help patients on cancer immunotherapy drugs

  BY JOCELYN KAISERAPR. 5, 2019

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  A Japanese spacecraft may have just blown a crater in a distant asteroid

  BY DENNIS NORMILEAPR. 5, 2019

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  Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology

  BY MICHAEL PRICEAPR. 5, 2019

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  Do chemicals that disperse oil spills make the problem worse? Probably not, new study finds

  BY WARREN CORNWALLAPR. 5, 2019

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  New surgical method promises to take the knife out of plastic surgery

  BY ROBERT F. SERVICEAPR. 5, 2019

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  Podcast: A radioactive waste standoff and science’s debt to the slave trade

  BY SARAH CRESPI, MEAGAN CANTWELL, ET AL.APR. 4, 2019

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  Cannibal worms recognize their children—and don’t eat them as a result

  BY ELIZABETH PENNISIAPR. 4, 2019

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  Astronomers spy an iron planet stripped of its crust around a burned-out star

  BY DANIEL CLERYAPR. 4, 2019

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  Trump’s budget request for 2020 census raises alarms

  BY JEFFREY MERVISAPR. 4, 2019

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  Historians expose early scientists’ debt to the slave trade

  BY SAM KEANAPR. 4, 2019

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VOL 364, ISSUE 6435
5 APRIL 2019

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IN BRIEF

News at a glance

IN DEPTH

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  Does fossil site record dino-killing impact?

  BY COLIN BARRASAPR. 5, 2019

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  First opioid settlement lets researchers think big

  BY JEFFREY MERVISAPR. 5, 2019

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  Moderns said to mate with late-surviving Denisovans

  BY ANN GIBBONSAPR. 5, 2019

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  U.K. fusion reactor will test fuel of future power plants

  BY DANIEL CLERYAPR. 5, 2019

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  Mapping efforts envision vast ocean reserves

  BY ALEX FOXAPR. 5, 2019

FEATURES

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  Science’s debt to the slave trade

  BY SAM KEANAPR. 5, 2019

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ScienceShots

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  Cannibal worms recognize their children—and don’t eat them as a result

  BY ELIZABETH PENNISIAPR. 4, 2019

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  Does your cat know its name? Here’s how to find out

  BY DAVID GRIMMAPR. 4, 2019

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  This hair-raising feather mite is a vacuum cleaner for birds

  BY HELEN SANTOROAPR. 4, 2019

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  To seal off dangerous lead pipes, just add electricity

  BY ROBERT F. SERVICEAPR. 3, 2019

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  Tweeting while flying kills migratory birds

  BY HELEN SANTOROAPR. 2, 2019

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  ‘Game-changing’ gene edit turned this anole lizard into an albino

  BY JON COHENAPR. 1, 2019

Topics View All Topics

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  Cancer

• Reprogrammed skin cells shrink brain tumors in mice
• Nanoparticles awaken immune cells to fight cancer
• Biden’s moonshot cancer plan calls for more data sharing

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  Conservation

• Legalizing ivory trade won’t save elephants, study concludes
• No proof that shooting predators saves livestock
• Can captive breeding save Mexico’s vaquita?

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  Planets

• Forbidden planets: Understanding alien worlds once thought impossible
• Update: Lopsided ice on the moon points to past shift in poles
• Astronomers say a Neptune-sized planet lurks beyond Pluto