2018 Society Annual Report

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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

SOCIETYFORSCIENCE&THEPUBLIC SCIENCENEWSMAGAZINE

JULY21,2018

AUGUST18,2018&SEPTEMBER1,2018

SEPTEMBER15,2018

DECEMBER22,2018&JANUARY5,2019

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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JANUARY20,2018

MARCH3,2018

APRIL28,2018 &MAY12,2018

JULY7,2018

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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19,897,970

DECEMBER8,2018

JUNE23,2018

MAY26,2018

MARCH17,2018

EmmyNoether’stheorem stillguidesphysicists The Beauty of Symmetry

25.9%

DisruptingEarth’speatlandsputs preciouscarbonstoresatrisk BOGS BRINK

ON THE

Consumergenetic testing ishot, but thebenefitsarespotty DNA Deluge

Thedambuildersreshape Alaska’s tundra Beavers on the move

Users

12,973,316

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27.0%

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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FEBRUARY17,2018

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

TO TAME THE FLAMES

A fighting CHANCE

20.2%

Analyzing wildfirebehavior tosave lives

Canavaccinesave Ethiopia’swolves?

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