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THE LATEST NEWS AND NOTES • THE ART AND SCIENCE OF FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION • CYBORG COCKROACHES SAVE IN SWARMS THE THREAT OF MIRROR MOLECULES • SALT SOLUTIONS • WHY IS MARS RED? NATURE’S ANALGESIA • INSIDE A NAME • CRACKING THE CODE OF WHALE CODAS

Facing Our Ancestors • WITH SUBTLE ARTISTRY AND SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY, RECONSTRUCTION ARTISTS BRING BACK FACES FROM THE PAST.

ROACHES TO THE RESCUE • RESEARCHERS HAVE HACKED LIVING COCKROACHES TO CREATE NEW SEARCH-AND-RESCUE TECH.

MOLECULES IN THE MIRROR • SCIENTISTS WARN OF TAKING MIRROR MOLECULES TOO FAR. LEARN MORE ABOUT THEIR BENEFITS AND RISKS.

Sussing Out Salts

RETHINKING THE RED PLANET • OBSERVATIONS FROM SPACE AND EXPERIMENTS ON EARTH HAVE HELPED ASTRONOMERS RETELL MARS’ HISTORY.

A NATURAL APPROACH TO PAIN RELIEF • A NEW STUDY SHOWS THAT NATURE CAN SOOTHE PAIN, REDUCING THE ACTIVITY IN PAIN-PERCEIVING REGIONS IN THE BRAIN.

INSIDE OUT • MEET KEURBOS SUSANAE, THE FOSSIL SPECIES WHOSE STUNNINGLY PRESERVED INSIDES HAVE LONG EVADED IDENTIFICATION.

IF A WHALE COULD TALK • A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM OF SCIENTISTS HOPES TO CRACK THE CODE OF SPERM WHALE CLICKS, POTENTIALLY ENABLING HUMANS TO UNDERSTAND THEM.

So Very Young • AN ER EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS THE RISK OF THIS CANCER IN YOUNGER ADULTS.

A Manuscript Without Meaning?

EARTH TO EXTRATERRESTRIALS • FOR BIOGEOCHEMIST LEWIS ALCOTT, THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE STARTS ON EARTH — WITH THE OXYGENATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE.

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY LEVELS UP

FINDING OUR NEANDERTHAL SIDE • ALTHOUGH NEANDERTHALS HAVE BEEN GONE FROM THIS WORLD FOR ABOUT 40,000 YEARS NOW, A LITTLE PIECE OF THEM HAS SURVIVED ALL THIS TIME — AND WE’RE LIVING TESTAMENTS TO THIS.

HOW DOES NEANDERTHAL DNA AFFECT THE BODY?

BREATHING EASY WITH NEANDERTHAL NOSES

SHEDDING LIGHT ON Luminescence • RESEARCH INTO THE ORIGINS OF BIOLUMINESCENCE SUGGESTS THAT THE ADAPTATION IS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE, HAVING EVOLVED AT DIFFERENT TIMES AND IN DIFFERENT WAYS THROUGHOUT EARTH’S HISTORY.

Too Close for Comfort • DESPITE NUMEROUS WARNINGS, PEOPLE STILL APPROACH WILDLIFE IN NATIONAL PARKS, PUTTING THEMSELVES AND THE ANIMALS AT RISK — AND PROMPTING RESEARCHERS TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER WE’RE LOSING OUR SENSE OF SELF-PRESERVATION.

THE LARGEST OF LIFE