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In Review

A collage of athletes featuring a dismayed football player, a focused soccer player, a runner at the starting line and a baseball player diving for the ball
The Mind

Lessons from sports psychology research

Scientists are probing the head games that influence athletic performance, from coaching to coping with pressure

A colorful illuminated manuscript depicts Pliny the Elder writing in his study with a Roman arch, dressed in red robes. Next to him is a view of a landscape with a river, sea, mountains, the Sun, the Moon, animals, sailing ships and buildings. Manuscript also has a large white vine initial and a three-sided white vine border containing birds and a wreath enclosing the arms of cardinal Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin.
Society

Pliny the Elder’s radical idea to catalog knowledge

This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia

Australian centenarians Maya Sonnenburg, Isabel Paterson, Victor Lilienthal, Albert Lowcock and Joan Wilson give a photographer the thumbs up outside the Queensland Parliament building in Brisbane, where they were among 45 senior citizens aged 100 or older feted during a celebratory lunch in 2016.
Society

Human life span may have no limit, analysis of supercentenarians suggests

Statistical methods predict that old-age record could reach 130 by century’s end

Photo of a young boy standing in front of a supermarket shelf filled with colorful bags of chips, boxes of cereals and other processed snack products.
The Mind

Foods of abuse? Nutritionists consider food addiction

Cookies, chips, hot dogs and other ultraprocessed fare raise risk of runaway eating

Photo shows a busy intersection with three police vehicles and two police officers directing traffic.
Society

Fighting crime with statistics

Taking advantage of “natural experiments,” researchers analyze data to look at what works

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