Contents
05 October 2018
Vol 362, Issue 6410
Vol 362, Issue 6410
Special Issue
Diving within Saturn’s rings
Introduction to special issue
Research Articles
Contents
This Week in Science
Editorial
Editors' Choice
Products & Materials
- New Products
A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.
In Brief
In Depth
- BepiColombo set to probe Mercury's mysteries
European-Japanese mission will examine idea that innermost planet formed out past Mars.
- Trio earns physics Nobel for turning lasers into tools
Prize honors discoveries that led to optical tweezers and short, powerful bursts of laser light.
- Cancer immunotherapy sweeps Nobel for medicine
Prize goes to discoveries that unleash immune system.
- New science minister's activism sparks debate
Biologist Elena Álvarez-Buylla has spoken out against transgenic maize.
- Airlines fight effort to force them to carry lab animals
U.S. Department of Transportation weighs whether to investigate complaint by leading research organization.
Feature
- Sky rivers
Streams of stars falling into our galaxy trace its history and mass. They may even record encounters with clumps of dark matter.
Working Life
Letters
Books et al.
- Junk food, junk science?
A nutrition expert aims a critical eye at the research and marketing practices of food companies
- Mythical androids and ancient automatons
Technology tales from classical literature reveal the storied history of artificial intelligence
Policy Forum
- Agricultural research, or a new bioweapon system?
Insect-delivered horizontal genetic alteration is concerning
Perspectives
- Marsupial responses to global aridification
Tooth evolution in Australian kangaroos was a late response to climate change in the Neogene
- Smoothening out the patches
New roles are discovered for cholesterol transport in a key developmental signaling pathway
- Activating plasmonic chemistry
Plasmonic photocatalysts can reduce activation barriers and unlock reaction pathways
- Metropolitan versus small-town influenza
Analysis of infectious disease data reveals the driving factors of infection dynamics
- Cancer origins—genetics rules the day
Similar cancers from different source tissues share molecular mechanisms
- Quantum oscillations in an insulator
Even without a Fermi surface, a Kondo insulator exhibits magnetoresistance oscillations
- Preserving microbial diversity
Microbiota from humans of all cultures are needed to ensure the health of future generations
Research Article
- Two Patched molecules engage distinct sites on Hedgehog yielding a signaling-competent complex
The cryo–electron microscopy structure of a key complex involved in regulating a pathway important in development and cancer is elucidated.
Reports
- Glacial lake outburst floods as drivers of fluvial erosion in the Himalaya
A very well monitored Himalayan glacial lake outburst flood shows the power of these large events to drive erosion.
- Slab2, a comprehensive subduction zone geometry model
Slab2 is a comprehensive model of all seismically active subduction zones on Earth.
- Rapid change of superconductivity and electron-phonon coupling through critical doping in Bi-2212
Angle-resolved photoemission uncovers an interplay between various types of interaction in a cuprate superconductor.
- Quantum oscillations of electrical resistivity in an insulator
In the insulator YbB12, both resistivity and magnetic torque show quantum oscillations, albeit with different effective masses.
- Quantifying hot carrier and thermal contributions in plasmonic photocatalysis
A Ru-Cu alloy plasmonic photocatalyst substantially reduced the thermal activation barrier for ammonia decomposition.
- Rapid Pliocene adaptive radiation of modern kangaroos
Kangaroos show unexpected patterns of diversification in response to past changes in climate.
- Urbanization and humidity shape the intensity of influenza epidemics in U.S. cities
Seasonal flu epidemics are more diffuse in larger cities and more intense in smaller cities, where climate has a stronger influence on transmission.
- Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment
In a replicated experiment in a subtropical forest, higher tree species diversity promoted productivity and carbon storage.
- The role of education interventions in improving economic rationality
An experiment with secondary school students shows that education enhances economic rationality measured with decision problems.
- Gene editing restores dystrophin expression in a canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Successful CRISPR correction of a dystrophin mutation in dogs increases dystrophin protein expression in skeletal and heart muscle.
- Reprogramming normal human epithelial tissues to a common, lethal neuroendocrine cancer lineage
Prostate and lung cancers convert to a drug-resistant, lethal form of cancer through the same reprogramming mechanism.
About The Cover
COVER Cassini's final wide-angle view of Saturn and its rings, taken on 13 September 2017, 2 days before the spacecraft burned up in the planet's atmosphere. The Sun is at an oblique angle on the far side of Saturn, which casts a dark shadow across the rings. This color mosaic was produced from multiple images taken with Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem. See page 44.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute