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THE LATEST NEWS AND NOTES • CRYONICS 101 • SELF-DRIVING DRONE • ORIGINS OF HUGGING • WEATHER FORECASTS IN SPACE

WILL CRYONICALLY FROZEN BODIES EVER BE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE? • CRYONICISTS HOPE THAT MODERN TECHNOLOGY WILL ONE DAY BRING THEM BACK FROM THE DEAD. BUT HOW REALISTIC IS A SECOND LIFE AFTER A DEEP FREEZE?

Hugging’s Evolutionary Origins • THERE ARE BIOLOGICAL REASONS WE HUG IT OUT.

STORMS FROM THE SUN • THE NATURE OF SPACE WEATHER HASN’T CHANGED MUCH. BUT SOCIETY HAS, AND UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTING THE PHENOMENON IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.

Neonatal Nightmare • SEIZURES IN INFANTS CAN SIGNAL SERIOUS TROUBLE, BUT SHE LOOKED PERFECTLY HEALTHY OTHERWISE.

In Search of the Nudibranch • FOLLOW ONE SCIENTIST’S JOURNEY TO REDISCOVER A MYSTERIOUS UNDERWATER WORLD — AND TO FIND AN ELUSIVE SEA CREATURE.

FROM COMBAT TO CONSERVATION • After half a century of armed conflict, Colombia’s ex-guerillas have no war to fight. Their new mission: preserving biodiversity in the jungles they occupied for decades.

SPILLING OVER • FOR DECADES, CANADIAN WATERWAYS HAVE CARRIED TOXIC MINE WASTE THROUGH NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS, INTO TRIBAL LANDS AND ACROSS THE U.S. BORDER. A COALITION OF INDIGENOUS LEADERS AND SCIENTISTS ARE NOW CALLING FOR INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION.

WAITING TO HATCH • SELF-TAUGHT FOSSIL SPECIALIST TERRY MANNING UNCOVERED HIS FIRST DINOSAUR EMBRYO FROM AN ANCIENT EGG IN 1993. MORE THAN 30 EMBRYOS AND NEARLY THREE DECADES LATER, HARDLY ANYONE HAS LAID EYES OR HANDS ON HIS RARE SPECIMENS.

SCIENCE BY THE PEOPLE • Darlene Cavalier has boosted some of the biggest citizen science projects in the nation — and wants everyone to join in.

5 WAYS YOU CAN BECOME A CITIZEN SCIENTIST

An Eye for Ants • AS THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY’S ANT COLLECTION RAPIDLY GREW IN THE 1950s, ONE WOMAN WORKED BEHIND THE SCENES WITH EXTRAORDINARY SPEED, ACCURACY AND ARTISTRY. TODAY’S RESEARCHERS ARE STILL REAPING THE BENEFITS.

Milky Way’s Crash-Bang Neighborhood • THE FATE OF OUR GALAXY — AND MANY OTHERS — IS PLAYED OUT IN A SLOW BUT SURPRISINGLY DRAMATIC COSMIC DANCE.

FRESHWATER TREASURE