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THE LATEST NEWS AND NOTES • WHEATS OF THE WORLD SCIENCE ON THE EDGE SOLITUDE STUDIES THE ANCIENT TOLL OF OFFICE WORK MARSUPIAL MEETINGS ECLIPSE EFFECTS DRIVING DIVERSITY ON ISLANDS

HARVESTING HISTORY • TO ADDRESS FEEDING THE WORLD’S GROWING POPULATION, EXPERTS TURN TO 100-YEAR-OLD WHEAT.

SETTING SPACE BOUNDARIES • HOW DO ASTRONOMERS DETERMINE WHERE GALAXIES END? LEARN HOW GAS DENSITY AND LOCATION DEFINE A GALAXY’S EDGES.

SCIENTISTS SEEKING SOLITUDE • THE NEW SCIENCE OF SOLITUDE SUGGESTS THAT YOU DON’T HAVE TO CLOSE YOURSELF OFF FROM THE WORLD TO GET THE BENEFITS OF BEING ALONE.

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS HAD POOR POSTURE AT WORK, TOO • ARTHRITIS AND WORN JOINTS REVEAL THE PHYSICAL TOLL OF BEING A SCRIBE AROUND 4,000 YEARS AGO.

MEET THE QUOKKA • THE IMPOSSIBLY CUTE MARSUPIAL HAS TAKEN SOCIAL MEDIA BY STORM, BUT IT’S FACING UNEXPECTED THREATS IN ITS SOUTHWESTERN AUSTRALIAN HOME.

How Animals Experience an Eclipse • THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES IN 2017 AND 2024 PRESENTED SCIENTISTS WITH A FRESH OPPORTUNITY TO UNDERSTAND THE UNUSUAL REACTIONS OF ANIMALS DURING ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA.

ECLIPSE STUDIES

Islands Are Laboratories — Of Language and Life • ISLANDS TAKE UP LITTLE OF EARTH’S INHABITED LAND BUT CHURN OUT LANGUAGES LIKE NO CONTINENT CAN.

A Stomach-Turning Surprise • THE SYMPTOMS POINTED TO A CLASSIC CASE OF GALLSTONES. BUT THE REAL PROBLEM WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE ANYONE WISH FOR GALLSTONES.

Allergic to EVERYTHING • HOW ONE OF THE OLDEST COMPONENTS OF THE HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM CAN TRIGGER A MYSTERIOUS AND LITTLE-UNDERSTOOD SYNDROME.

DOCTOR Drosophila • Meet Drosophila melanogaster, the tiny fly behind more than 100 years of biomedical science.

You & Your mucus • THE SNOT INSIDE YOUR NOSE MAY BE UNPLEASANT, BUT IT’S ALSO WHAT MAKES YOU, YOU, ACCORDING TO THE NEWEST MUCUS-RELATED RESEARCH.

Top Secrets • WE ALL HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE, BUT ONLY RECENTLY HAVE THE LEADING SECRECY SCIENTISTS EXPOSED HOW KEEPING AND SHARING INFORMATION AFFECTS US.

On the Mark • HOW DID ANIMALS DEVELOP THEIR DISTINCTIVE SPOTS, STRIPES, AND OTHER MARKINGS? NEW RESEARCH UPGRADES A FAMOUS MATHEMATICIAN’S THEORY ON THE FORMATION OF SKIN PATTERNS.

HOW THE ZEBRA EARNED ITS STRIPES

LIGHTS! CAMERA! RESURRECTION?