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The article reports on stories from the 2011 issues of "Science News." It discusses some of the worst, best, and unusual global events and discoveries of 2011 including the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a vaccine against malaria, and a virus that is linked to chronic fatigue syndrome. The articles are presented by subject area including topical headings like environment, genes & cells, and technology.

The article presents a letter from the editor regarding a special section within the issue. The special section contains articles that have been previously published in "Science News" and are part of the magazine's 2009 Science News of the Year list, which includes research in the areas of anthropology, physics, and mathematics.

The article presents numerous briefs regarding what the writers of Science News have selected as to what they consider the most compelling stories of 2004. The top selections on Science News Online spanned the full range of scientific fields. The most widely viewed news article described bias in a heads-or-tail toss of a coin. The most popular feature looked into the physics underlying a new generation of yo-yos. Other articles reported on include the DNA differences among various breeds of purebred dogs, research about a Martian chemical that hints there was once life on the Red Planet, and information about a gene mutation that resulted in a superstrong toddler.

Offers a look at scientific highlights of 2002. Discovery of a fossil skull representing the earliest known member of the human evolutionary family; Recalculation of the universe's age based on the observation of distant stars; Imaging data indicating that the brains of children diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are smaller than their peers without the disorder; Studies indicating that the health risks associated with estrogen therapy for postmenopausal women outweigh its benefits; Others.

This is a review of important science news stories of 1990 as reported in the pages of "Science News." A new and much-debated theory proposed that the evolution of a network of brain-cooling veins allowed for the striking expansion of brain size among human ancestors. At the Sixth International Conference on AIDS, scientists unveiled new data that may ultimately lead to a vaccine for the disease, and a prominent AIDS researcher supported a controversial theory regarding an AIDS cofactor. Researchers established that the single most important risk factor in carotid artery disease, which affects an artery that supplies the brain with blood, is the number of years a person has smoked cigarettes. Fields medals for innovative research in mathematics went to Vaughan F.R. Jones, Edward Witten, Shigefumi Mori and Vladimir G. Drinfeld. To combat the threat of global warming, a panel of experts called for a substantial increase in federal support for U.S. research into energy conservation and the use of renewable resources. Others.

Presents the top science news for the year 1985. Determination of carbon isotope ratios in prehistoric human skeletons; Discovery of an object emitting radiation in a quasi-periodic rhythm; Exhibition of Type A personality in some adults and children.

Presents the top science-related news events of 1997. Events in fields of anthropology, astronomy, behavior; biology, biomedicine, chemistry, computers and math, earth science, environment, food science, materials science, paleobiology, physics, science and society, and space science.

Focuses on various science news as of 1980. Findings of the Voyager 1 spacecraft regarding the braided rings of the planet Saturn; Displaying of the first large coral reef community at the Smithsonian Institute; Details on future solar energy applications.

Presents a review of important science news stories of 1977 as reported in the journal 'Science News.' Need for a research in recombinant DNA; Effectiveness of Laetrile in cancer treatment; Discovery of a new class of organic compounds that may affect the design of emission control devices; Determination of the magnetic moment of the muon and an electron; Method for radiocarbon dating; Link between solar activity and weather on earth.

Presents news related to different fields of science published in various issues of the journal 'Science News,' in the year 1976. Discoveries made by the U.S. Viking mission to Mars; Method of dating using radioactive decay of rhenium; Establishment of detailed climatic chronology from sediment cores regarding the cycles of ice age on earth.

The article offers science news briefs for 2017. Americans' observation of a total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 is mentioned. On Earth Day, April 22, 2017, the March for Science event in Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia) occurred. The U.S. President Donald Trump declared that he would have the U.S. withdraw from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord on June 1, 2017.

The article offers science news for students. The Fujian Normal University scientists developed disappearing heat-sensitive-ink on rewritable paper. The behavior of sea animals in the Arctic, including their eating and movements during dark periods, is discussed. The impossibility of zombies to exist, due to death's causing muscle cells to not receive oxygen and maggots and bacteria's consuming the dead, is also discussed.

The article offers news briefs on scientific discoveries in 2018. A radio antenna in Western Australia detected dark matter interacting with hydrogen particles from the early universe. The existence of new subatomic particles may have been observed by the ANITA detector. A relationship has been discovered between the herpesvirus and Alzheimer's disease.

The article offers science news briefs for students as of November 24, 2018. Secondhand smoking is linked to the development of lung diseases in teenagers. Research has shown microplastics in mosquito larvae. The online resource Science News for Students (SNS) is developing features on the impacts of climate change.

The article offers news briefs, reprinted from the "Science News for Students" magazine on topics, including the U.S. youth trend of using what are referred to as fidget spinners, tongues sensing of drinking water through the tongue's loss of bicarbonate saliva and the Arctic Ocean's salt water.

The article offers science news briefs as of June 1, 2013. Scientists found evidence of cannibalism in colonial America's Jamestown settlement in Virginia. Scientists found that a laboratory-induced mutation to the H5N1 avian influenza virus made it unable to bind to bird cells. Scientists found evidence that bird genomes were infected with some form of hepatitis B 82 million years ago.

The article presents science news briefs as of December, 2012 on topics including the riding of raindrops by mosquitoes, the revival of a 31,800 year old fruit in a laboratory, and copperhead conception without sex.

The article discusses several reports in previous issues of "Science News" regarding the link between climate change and extreme weather, such as drought. Topics include studies in the September 8, 2012 issue attempting to prove a link between global warming and extreme weather, a report in the November 17, 2012 issue regarding a heat wave in Texas that resulted in extreme drought conditions, and a study on thinning sea ice in the Polar regions in the October 6, 2012 issue.

The article discusses articles on humans published in previous issues including one on a study that finds mental disorders are increasing in the October 10, 2009 issue, one on the universal human ability to distinguish emotion in music in the April 4, 2009 issue, and one on the discovery that people in southern Africa used fire to heat treat tools in the September 12, 2009 issue. INSET: Ardi puts new spin on hominid evolution.

The article discusses articles on the environment published in previous issues including one on research showing that decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaskan shores and wildlife have not fully recovered in the March 23, 2009 online issue, one on the environmental impact of dead trees caused by hurricanes in the April 27, 2009 online issue, and one on the environmental impact of growing biofuels in deforested tropical areas in the March 14, 2009 issue. INSET: Routine tree deaths doubled.

The article discusses articles on matter and energy published in previous issues including one on the first successful transfer of a quantum bit between two charged atoms in the January 22, 2009 issue, one on the benefits of an iron-based superconductor in the February 28, 2009 issue, and one on the discovery of single top quark in the March 10, 2009 issue. INSET: First programmable quantum computer.

The article discusses articles on atoms and cosmology published in previous issues including one on the transformation of the Hubble Space Telescope into an observatory in the May 19, 2009 issue, one on the discovery that supermassive black holes may be bigger than previously thought in the July 4, 2009 issue, and one on the possible discovery of dark matter in the January 2, 2010 issue. INSET: Water on the moon.

Focuses on news briefs and updates on astronomy previously published in various issues of the journal "Science News" in 2003. Disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia; Discovery by astronomers of a mysterious substance called dark energy; Observation of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon Titan; Update on supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies.

Focuses on news briefs and updates on anthropology and archaeology previously published in various issues of the journal "Science News" in 2003. Discovery of Homo sapiens skulls in Ethiopia; Identification of a primate gene; Chemical analyses of pot fragments that once held found in England that once held milk.

Presents tributes to 'Science News' on its 60th anniversary celebration. Messages from various personalities from the field of science; Compliments form Wilbur E. Garrett regarding work of science writers and their professionalism; Appreciation for broad and accurate scientific informations in the journal by Glenn T. Seaborg.

The article presents science news briefs as of August 9, 2014. Topics include a study published by J.T. Reager in the July 6, 2014 issue of "Nature Geoscience" that found that gravity variations predict floods months in advance; a study published by Anthony Fiorillo in the June 30, 2014 issue of "Geology" reporting on herds of Arctic-dwelling duck-billed dinosaurs; and a study published by Ray Smith in the July 17, 2014 issue of "Nature" on the use of compressed diamonds to study core conditions in exoplanets.

The article presents science news briefs as of May 17, 2014. Topics include research by Erika Lopez Garcia of Brown University and colleagues that suggests mountains on Saturn's moon Iapetus may be formed of space debris, a report by Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center and colleagues on mutations enabling airborne spreading of avian influenza to humans, and the discovery of a prehistoric bee nest in the La Brea Tar Pits.

The article offers science news briefs as of May 3, 2014. Topics include a study showing that electronic cigarettes do not help smokers quit, the discovery of a planetoid in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the solar system, and the discovery that cysteine dietary supplements may ease symptoms of the neurodegenerative genetic disorder Huntington's disease.

The article presents science news briefs as of April 5, 2014. Topics include analysis of hominid skeletons excavated in Dmanisi, Georgia, by a team led by José María Bermúdez de Castro of the Spanish National Research Center on Human Evolution, a study that associated acetaminophen use during pregnancy with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children, and a device that turns radio waves into laser pulses developed by Eugene Polzik of the University of Copenhagen.

The article offers science news briefs as of February 2014. A study by ecologist Kyle Cavanaugh of the Smithsonian Institution found the mangrove forests of Florida have expanded northward. Researcher Katherine Kedzierska of the University of Melbourne and colleagues suggested H7N9 avian influenza may impact Aboriginal Australian and Alaska Native populations more than others. Harvard University research published in "Nature" announced a new type of flow battery using organic molecules.

This section offers science news briefs as of November 2013. Two studies published in the October 30, 2013 issue of "Nature" state that antibodies that latch onto viral proteins are found to suppress HIV-like disease in rhesus monkeys. An analysis showed that the contamination caused by California's gold rush more than a century ago will last thousands of years. Another study revealed that the Milky Way Galaxy contains billions of potentially habitable Earth-sized planets.

This section offers science news briefs as of October 19, 2013. It reports the results of a study on Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan parasite which can reproduce in a cat's stomach, published in an issue of "PLOS ONE." An analysis of the nature of the Middle East respiratory syndrome virus is presented in a study in "Nature Geoscience." The results of a simulation conducted on the impact of cutting greenhouse emissions on air quality are reported in a study published in "Nature Climate Change."

The article presents science news briefs as of October 5, 2013. Statistics are presented demonstrating the effectiveness of the 2012 "Tips from Former Smokers" campaign by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in promoting smoking cessation. A report published in "Science" by researcher Niklas Romming and team created skyrmion vortices on a thin magnetic film using a scanning tunneling microscope. The discovery of a massive canyon beneath the ice on Greenland is discussed.

The article presents science news briefs as of October 5, 2013. The fungi Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans was identified as the source of mass fire salamander deaths in the Netherlands. A study of generic influenza vaccines found that some antibodies can increase invasiveness and severity of influenza infection. Samples from the meteorite which reached California in 2012 were found to contain unique sulfur- and oxygen-based organic compounds.

The article presents scientific research news briefs as of July 27, 2013. Topics include the discovery of the Dua's layer of the human cornea and its role in corneal hydrops disorder, observations of the edge of the solar system by the Voyager 1 space probe, and the use of radioactive carbon to track the rate of regeneration of brain cells such as hippocampal cells and neurons.

The article offers science news briefs as of July 13, 2013. A study found partially-blind rats who received prosthetic chip implants responded to light with activity in their brains' visual cortices. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials have proposed that the terms of the Endangered Species Act apply to both wild and captive chimpanzees. Scientist using lidar laser technology have found ancient remnants of settlements surrounding the capital of Cambodia's Khmer empire, Angkor.

The article offers science news briefs as of June 28, 2013. A study led by scientist Janet Braam explores the circadian cycle of plants that turns food into usable energy as metabolism. Paolo Sassone-Corsi of the University of California, Irvine outlines the clocklike rhythms of the body that regulate every biological process. Meanwhile, stem cells are proven to have the ability to turn into different types of cells.

The article offers science research news briefs, as of June 2013. It describes a long-burning flame under a waterfall near Buffalo, New York, fueled by the seepage of shale gas. It notes the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide, with historical comparisons. The manner of dispersal of some types of seeds by ants is described.

The article offers science news briefs as of May 25, 2013. A study by Shinji Toda and Ross Stein found Tokyo, Japan has an increased seismic risk caused by the March 2011 magnitude 9 earthquake. Record levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) were reported above Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano on May 9, 2013. A study by Stephen Teach and colleagues found one-sixth of children deemed at risk of suicide live in a home with firearms.

The article offers science news and notes as of May 25, 2013. Topics discussed include a report in the March 2013 issue of the journal "Animal Behaviour" on reproduction in land-dwelling snails, such as Euhadra subnimbosa, an excerpt from an article in the June 1, 1963 issue of "Science News" on a device that maps the body's internal organs with sound waves, and a chart showing the percentage of scientists, in various categories, using the online social network Twitter.

The article discusses 2013 reports in various scientific journals. Topics include a study in the April 12 issue of "Science" revealing the possible human ancestor in Australopithecus sediba, a study in the April 14 issue of "Nature Climate Change" reporting evidence to suggest reducing certain greenhouse gases (GHGs) could slow sea level rise, and a study in the April 10 issue of "Nature" describing a novel method for making the malarial drug artemisinin.

The article offers science news briefs as of May 4, 2013. Scientists reporting in the June 23, 2013 issue of "Biology Letters" magazine found evidence for a genetic patterns change, called genetic surfing, in Northern African spur-thighed tortoises (Testudo graeca). A 2012 survey of monarch butterfly hibernating grounds in Mexico showed a sharp decline in monarch colonies. The 2013 Omnifest film festival opens at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul on May 10, 2013.

The article offers science news briefs and events as of April 20, 2013. A team of researchers in Denmark reporting in the April 23, 2013 issue of the journal "Biology Letters" argue that an increasingly rapid series of echo locating calls from bats evolved to prevent insects from escaping. An excerpt of an article in the April 20, 1963 issue of "Science News" reports a successful cadaver transplant. A charts is presented that shows various manatee populations in winter habitats.

The article offers science and technology news briefs on an antispam e-mail program developed by engineering and science laboratory Sandia National Laboratories and studies by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University that suggest paid sick days can prevent epidemics.

The article explains that February 11, 2013 is the earliest launch date for the U.S. Earth-observing satellite program's Landsat Data Continuity Mission and discusses the event held by the New York Academy of Science on February 12, 2013 called "Lust and Love in the Animal Kingdom."

The article presents science news briefs that disprove purported scientific discoveries as of December, 2012 which included a bacterium that was thought to survive on arsenic instead of phosphorus, neutrinos that were thought to have traveled faster than light, and supersolidity.

The article discusses the most noteworthy science stories of 2012. Topics include the discovery of a particle called the Higgs boson by physicists in Geneva, Switzerland on July 4, the landing of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Curiosity rover on the planet Mars on August 6, and two separate studies showing the ease at which avian influenza could be mutated to render it capable of airborne transmission in June.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the 2012 science news stories of the year, the lifetime supply of ovum in women, and technology that allows paralytics to regain their independence.

The article offers science news briefs as of November-December 2012 on the rescue of coral by gobies, a carbon-rich planet that would contain one-third of its weight in gems and the new educators page of Science News for Kids (SNK).

The article offers science news briefs as of November 17, 2012. Researchers in Illinois found that treating apnea improves blood pressure. A study by an international team of scientists found that a drug approved for the treatment of the skin condition psoriasis, called ustekinumab, works for some individuals with Crohn's inflammatory bowel disease. Two separate cancer studies found that multivitamins do no protect against colorectal cancer.