Saturday, May 4, 2013

Issue for the week of May 18th, 2013

  • Comb jelly genetics suggest a radical redrawing of the tree of life. (p. 20)

  • Laboratory dynamos attempt to generate magnetic fields the way planets and stars do. (p. 26)

  • Space telescope finds globes that, compared with our world, are slightly larger and orbit a smaller star. (p. 5)

  • A topological insulator for photons, exotic etched glass could improve optics-based communications. (p. 8)

  • Concept could lead to sonar-defeating submarines or noise-cancelling highway barriers. (p. 8)

  • Replacing fatty molecules turns organs transparent, allowing study of structure and function at the same time. (p. 9)

  • MRI reveals brain?s processing, and its pleasure, when a person listens to an enjoyable new tune. (p. 9)

  • A supernova?s remnants possibly showing up in fossils and an explanation for the Crab Nebula are among highlights from the physics meeting. (p. 11)

  • Japanese sites yield late Stone Age evidence of people heating fish in ceramic vessels. (p. 12)

  • Study of reconstructed skull section puts 4.4-million-year-old species in human evolutionary family. (p. 13)

  • Perhaps the oldest swatch of hominid skin yet found and ?tzi the iceman?s Neandertal genetics are among the highlights from the physical anthropology meeting. (p. 13)

  • Cleansed of cells and repopulated anew, bioengineered organ successfully produces urine. (p. 14)

  • Experiment hundreds of meters underground detects three candidate signs of dark matter, though physicists are cautious about the finding. (p. 10)

  • Gut bacteria transform compound into artery hardener. (p. 14)

  • An experimental medicine that uses a seek-and-destroy design to kill tumor cells may help some patients who face a recurrence. (p. 15)

  • Long, heated battle ends with a moniker for the Indian Ocean reptile. (p. 16)

  • Special cells in the mammal?s brain chart its path as it flies. (p. 18)

  • Geologists narrow window on time of the Chinese river?s origin to 23-36 million years ago. (p. 18)

  • A slab stayed unperturbed in the mantle for billions of years before resurfacing, sulfur measurements suggest. (p. 18)

  • Shoemaker-Levy 9 supplied almost all of aqueous part of the planet's upper atmosphere. (p. 18)

  • No tie found between colicky babies and later tension headaches. (p. 18)

  • Genes of ?living fossil? do reveal changes needed to live on dry land. (p. 18)

  • Review by Erika Engelhaupt (p. 30)

  • Review by Erin Wayman (p. 30)

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  • Science Past from the issue of May 18, 1963 (p. 4)

  • Science Future for May 18, 2013 (p. 4)

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  • The Science Life (p. 32)

  • Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/issue/id/350174/title/Issue_for_the_week_of_May_18th_2013

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