2018 Society Annual Report
It was a year of big news in science, including a Chinese researcher’s shocking claim that he had created the first babies born with edited genes, and the possible discovery of a massive impact crater hidden beneath Greenland’s ice. SCIENCE NEWS
LackofSleep Linkedto Alzheimer’s
FlashMob Turnson Genes
Daredevil ProbeWill Touchthe Sun
SeafloorCables CouldDetect Quakes
Wildfires Erase CleanAir Gains
Amoebas PackLunch forTheir Kids
Possible LakeFound onMars
Blood Pressure andBrain Health
Quantum SwitchHas Superpowers
Video Fakery
How Elephants
Supersmooth Desalination
SizingUp Earth’s Impact Craters
Calculating aProton’s Heft
Patching Broken Hearts
VanillaGoes WayBack
Dodge Cancer
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Climatechangehitshome andothertopscience storiesof2018 The Road Ahead
TheParkerSolar Probe isheadedfor itsstellarclose-up Sun Offtothe
Cosmic Cloak An invisiblecloudshapes agalaxy’s future
WaterWoes Thestruggle to livewith toomuchor too little SPECIALREPORT
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2018 NUMBERS In 2018, we showed impressive growth in web traffic over 2017 across a variety of metrics, reaching more people and earn- ing more page views than ever before, despite an increasingly competitive media landscape.
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Mosaic Mollusk Eyes
Frozen Soap Bubbles
Revisiting Menopause Relief
ClimateChange BlameGame
Recipes for Minibrains
Tracking Flu’s Travels
WhyLionsDon’t AlwaysWin
Prepping foraSteamy VenusVisit
Exoplanet TestKitchen
Americas’ Earliest Dogs
Jamming With Bowhead Whales
Engineeringan AncientSaw
DebateOver AncientChill HeatsUp
PuttingaLid onRapaNui Statues
Tattoo Transmits Current
Honeybees Recognize Zero
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APRIL28,2018 &MAY12,2018
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FightClub Somecreaturesshowofftowin, othersgo forthekill
But the grim reality of climate change grabbed center stage. Extreme weather racked the globe, including lethal wildfires in California; terrible flooding in India; and two record-set- ting hurricanes that slammed the Southeastern United States. We covered these developments closely, as well as a flood of new research attributing extreme weather events to human-caused climate change. Our special report on water investi- gated how rising seas are impacting the Everglades and coastal megaci- ties in Asia, with reporting from Mum- bai, India, on the city’s increasingly frequent floods. And Science News for Students , our digital magazine for those ages 9 and up, launched Climate Change Chronicles, a series of reports on what the emerging science tells us about climate change and what people around the world are already doing to adapt. Our coverage of physics and as- tronomy earned praise for a cover story on the mathematician Emmy Noether’s historic contributions to physics. We were also lauded for
our story on the discovery of a likely source for high-energy neutrinos: a brilliant cosmic beacon called a blazar. We followed the Parker Solar Probe on its historic mission to the sun, explaining how scientists invented a spacecraft that could survive the star’s scorching heat. And we bid farewell to the Kepler space telescope and the Mars Opportunity rover, while previewing missions headed to asteroids at the outer edges of our solar system. Back on Earth, our multipart inves- tigation of the shortcomings of popular genetic genealogy tests, which included first-person stories and analysis of five DNA ancestry test kits, won multiple awards and continues to drive traffic and help people understand the potential and risks of this technology. We kept our readers up to speed on the latest in artificial intelligence while fending off hype. And we shared our readers’ delight in scientists’ efforts to discover how wombats, those stout Australian marsupials, poop in tidy cubes.
Newdiscoveries redefinedinosaurs Beastly Breakout
Therace toputhumans on theRedPlanetmay curtail thesearch for life Rocket to MARS
Cancer-killingTcells needupgrades tomake themsafer forpatients Seek and Destroy
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Parkinson’s MayStart in theGut
Finding Planetary Graveyards
Kilogram Goes Fundamental
Greenland Hidesa BigCrater
The411on Ancestry Testing
Bonobos BuddyUp forBirths
Mysterious Neutrino Surplus
ColonChecks forGenX
Plants Have the Moves
Digging Into the RedPlanet
GiantSloth ChaseScene
TheTruth AboutWeb Privacy
Neandertals’ ArtisticSide
WhenBaby BringsYou Down
AntsAce Battlefield Triage
Neutrino Partner Puzzle
Sessions
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DECEMBER8,2018
JUNE23,2018
MAY26,2018
MARCH17,2018
EmmyNoether’stheorem stillguidesphysicists The Beauty of Symmetry
25.9%
DisruptingEarth’speatlandsputs preciouscarbonstoresatrisk BOGS BRINK
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Consumergenetic testing ishot, but thebenefitsarespotty DNA Deluge
Thedambuildersreshape Alaska’s tundra Beavers on the move
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Monkeys GetDolly Treatment
NewSpinon DataStorage
Lessons inDNA Packing
WhenHumans LeftAfrica
Retired BrainCells AreTrouble
Neptmoon Comes Into Focus
Particle Puzzle in Antarctica
WipingOut Mosquitoes
FakeNews Spreads Faster
Meetthe ViralTitans
OpioidDeath Demystified
WhenStars SwitchedOn
Following Memories’ Footprints
How Blowflies StayCool
Secretsof Ultrablack Feathers
OriginStory forFast RadioBursts
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OCTOBER27,2018
MONTHXX,2018 ARC 31,2018
FEBRUARY3,2018
27,097,985 Unique Page Views
Atplaytime, kidsmightprefer real-world tasks Forget Fantasy
THE SPY INYOUR POCKET
Smartphones opennew opportunities forprivacy invasions
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Analyzing wildfirebehavior tosave lives
Canavaccinesave Ethiopia’swolves?
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