Issue for the week of June 16th, 2012

Turning on brown fat in humans may boost weight loss (p. 20)

Astronomers lay bare the Milky Way?s biggest secrets (p. 22)

How deep-sea creatures, and close relatives, survive tons of water weight (p. 26)

For the first time, a brain-computer interface is powerful enough to enable useful movement in human patients. (p. 5)

Winners of the 2012 Intel ISEF show the promise of science for improving the world. (p. 8)

Criminologists argue that city safety rankings should consider underreporting and other sources of error in compiling statistics. (p. 9)

Positive feelings may lead seniors to weigh fewer options and make poorer choices in some situations. (p. 10)

Classic-era structure displays rare calculations of lunar and planetary cycles. (p. 10)

Calculations suggest a way to boost the independence of information flow, a finding that could help in cryptography. (p. 11)

In lab tests on rat retinas, a photovoltaic chip helps display images through special goggles. (p. 12)

Chronic, low-level sound exposure causes deficits in rats. (p. 12)

Cells linked to empathy and consciousness in primates may offer clues to human self-awareness. (p. 13)

Genetic study suggests that higher levels of HDL aren?t directly responsible for the lower risk of cardiovascular disease seen in population studies. (p. 14)

Variations could play a role in determining time of death, or help shift workers better adapt. (p. 14)

New finding may help explain why some people experience psychological problems after traumatic experiences. (p. 15)

Specific DNA variants have been found to be associated with the types of microbes that colonize a person?s body. (p. 15)

Massive eruptions on sunlike stars might not require magnetic interactions from a big, hot, nearby planet. (p. 16)

New observations confirm two leading theories of type 1a supernova production. (p. 16)

Spacecraft observations redraw astronomers? ideas about the local stellar environment. (p. 17)

Adjacent groups in Africa follow different traditions when it comes to opening nuts. (p. 18)

Panamanian bats use an array of senses to keep from ingesting poison prey. (p. 18)

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Science at 15,000 feet (p. 32)

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