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Physics

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Sights Unseen

Renaud Bachelot

Can we make mice see the invisible? Renaud Bachelot reviews new developments in the emergent field of nano-optics and nanophotonics—particularly, results which explore making infrared visible to mice.

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Archaeology

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The Pre-Clovis Peoples

Yuichi Nakazawa

Scholars have long debated the timing and route by which humans first arrived in the New World. A new study finds evidence of human activity 2,800 years earlier than previously thought.

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Biology

Life Lessons

John Hewitt

Shoichi Kato et al. have exploited the minimalist cell architecture and mitochondrial dynamics of Cyanidioschyzon merolae to shed new light on life at its most primitive stage of endosymbiosis.

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Physics

High Temperature Superconductivity

Andrew Jordan

Are lossless power transmission and magnetically levitated trains in our future? Only after we understand high-temperature superconductivity. Andrew Jordan reviews results by Sven Badoux et al.

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Chemistry

The Fourth State of Water

Marc Henry

What is water that is not ice, liquid, or vapor? Marc Henry explains the unfolding discovery of water’s elusive fourth state, which could bring a revolution for biology and medicine.

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Chemistry

Water and Its Mysteries

Marc Henry

There are few things, Marc Henry observes, that modern science does not understand. One is consciousness; the other is water. The behavior of water at supercooled temperatures is a case in point.

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Genetics

Genes within Genes

Tyler Hampton

A new study, “Russian Doll Genes and Complex Chromosome Rearrangements in Oxytricha trifallax,” casts fresh light on gene nesting and mathematical patterns. Tyler Hampton examines the key findings.

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Physics

Quantum Critical Proteins

Stuart Lindsay

Hydrogen atoms are explained by quantum mechanics; cats are not. Stuart Lindsay argues proteins may be closer to hydrogen atoms than cats and details new work on the electrical properties of proteins.

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Linguistics

Handmade

Vivian Cook

Linguist Vivian Cook reviews a paper by Elena Pagliarini et al., “Children’s First Handwriting Productions Show a Rhythmic Structure,” and claims that some characteristics of handwriting are innate.