Science|AAAS

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  Top stories: The limits of human performance, sloth evolution, and the magic finger ratio

  BY ALEX FOXJUN. 7, 2019

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  Watch an ant rip apart a spiderweb to rescue a sibling

  BY JAKE BUEHLERJUN. 7, 2019

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  Spotted for the first time: a fish holding its breath underwater

  BY ERICA TENNENHOUSEJUN. 7, 2019

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  $180 million DNA ‘barcode’ project aims to discover 2 million new species

  BY ELIZABETH PENNISIJUN. 6, 2019

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  Ancient molecules reveal surprising details on origins of ‘bizarre’ sloths

  BY GRETCHEN VOGELJUN. 6, 2019

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  Powerful U.S. senator calls for vetting NIH grantees at hearing on foreign influences

  BY JEFFREY MERVISJUN. 6, 2019

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  Talk to the hand. Scientists try to debunk idea that finger length can reveal personality and health

  BY MITCH LESLIEJUN. 6, 2019

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  Medical preprint server debuts

  BY JOCELYN KAISERJUN. 5, 2019

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Journals

7 June 2019 Vol. 364 Issue 6444

• Special issue: Organoids

• The mismeasure of hands?

• The scientist’s summer reading list

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June 2019 Vol. 5 Issue 6

• Quantifying human energy spent

• Enhancing science education

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4 June 2019 Vol. 12 Issue 584

• Expanding mineralocorticoid functions

• Building better biosensors

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5 June 2019 Vol. 11 Issue 495

• APECED pneumonitis can be resolved with immunomodulation

• Promoting ubiquitin ligase activity degrades α-synuclein fibrils

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June 2019 Vol. 4 Issue 36

• Filming the airways

• Activation of adipose tissue ILC2s by stromal IL-33

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May 2019 Vol. 4 Issue 30

• Microrobots for cell transplantation and delivery

• Shared-control-based bimanual robot manipulation

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First Release Sciencepapers

• Structured spike series specify gene expression patterns for olfactory circuit formation

• RNA-guided DNA insertion with CRISPR-associated transposases

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  Exclusive: ‘I’ve never seen anything like it.’ Video of mating deep-sea anglerfish stuns biologists

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  Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s

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  Where does the periodic table end?

Editor’s Picks

Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts. But is anyone brave enough to study them?

BY DAVID GRIMMMAY. 9, 2019

• Ride sharing in San Francisco

  BY GREGORY D. ERHARDT, SNEHA ROY, ET AL.MAY. 1, 2019

• Permits were supposed to make climbing Yosemite’s Half Dome safer. They made things worse

  BY DAVID ADAMMAY. 3, 2019

Deep-sea vision

BY ZUZANA MUSILOVA, FABIO CORTESI, ET AL.MAY. 10, 2019

• Engineered vasculature

  BY BAGRAT GRIGORYAN, SAMANTHA J. PAULSEN, ET AL.MAY. 3, 2019

• Reactivation of PTEN tumor suppressor for cancer treatment through inhibition of a MYC-WWP1 inhibitory pathway

  BY YU-RU LEE, MING CHEN, ET AL.MAY. 17, 2019

Archaeologists find richest cache of ancient mind-altering drugs in South America

BY MICHAEL PRICEMAY. 6, 2019

• Hearing an ear infection

  BY JUSTIN CHAN, SHARAT RAJU, ET AL.MAY. 15, 2019

• Why some climate scientists are saying no to flying

  BY KATIE LANGINMAY. 13, 2019

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5. Large cities may create their own clouds

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