Posted December 20, 2013:

• Starless Cloud Cores Reveal Why Some Stars Are Bigger Than Others

Posted December 19, 2013:

• A Micro-Muscular Breakthrough: Powerful New Microscale Torsional Muscle/motor from Vanadium Dioxide


• Ancient Cranial Surgery: Practice of Drilling Holes in the Cranium That Dates Back Thousands of Years


• Driving Force Behind Mitochondrial 'Sex' in Ancient Flowering Plant


• Researchers Generate Kidney Tubular Cells from Stem Cells


• Mating Is Kiss of Death for Certain Female Worms


• TB Bacteria Mask Their Identity to Intrude Into Deeper Regions of Lungs


• Catching the Big Wave: 'Universal Ripple' Could Hold the Secret to High-Temperature Superconductivity


• Electron 'Antenna' Tunes in to Physics Beyond Higgs


• Scientists Discover How Immune Cells Die During HIV Infection; Identify Potential Drug to Block AIDS


• The Origin of Flowers: DNA of Storied Plant Provides Insight Into the Evolution of Flowering Plants


• New Salt Compounds Challenge the Foundation of Chemistry


• Brain Connections May Explain Why Girls Mature Faster


• New -- And Reversible -- Cause of Aging: Naturally Produced Compound Rewinds Aspects of Age-Related Demise in Mice


• New Evidence That Computers Change the Way We Learn


• Lemur Babies of Older Moms Less Likely to Get Hurt