Science News.

Posted May 31, 2013:

• Even With Defects, Graphene Is Strongest Material in the World


• Elevated Carbon Dioxide Making Arid Regions Greener

Posted May 30, 2013:

• Biologists Take Snapshot of Fleeting Protein Process


• Climate Change Threatens Extinction for 82 Percent of California Native Fish


• Researchers Coax Clays to Make Human Bone


• Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars


• Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars Has Implications for Future Human Missions


• Asteroids Provide Sustainable Resource, Study Finds


• One of the Moon's Mysteries Solved: Origin of Mascon Basins


• Scientists Capture First Images of Molecules Before and After Reaction


• Why Animals Compare the Present With the Past


• Genetic Variants Linked to Educational Attainment


• Water-Rock Reaction May Provide Enough Hydrogen 'Food' to Sustain Life in Ocean's Crust or on Mars


• How Turtles Got Their Shells: Fossil of Extinct South African Reptile Provides Clues


• Comet ISON Is Hurtling Toward Uncertain Destiny With Sun


• Why Female Loggerhead Sea Turtles Always Return to Their Place of Birth


• Rabbit Wears Contact Lenses With Light-Emitting Diode: New Class of Transparent, Stretchable Electrodes


• Land-Based Carbon Offsets: False Hope? Forest and Soil Carbon Is Important, but Does Not Offset Fossil Fuel Emissions


• Ancient Egyptians Accessorized With Meteorites


• New Mathematical Model Links Space-Time Theories

Posted May 29, 2013:

• Cassini Finds Hints of Activity at Saturn Moon Dione


• NASA's WISE Mission Finds 'Lost' Asteroid Family Members


• Scientists Find Chemical That Causes 'Kidney' Failure in Mosquitoes


• Apes Get Emotional Over Games of Chance


• Artificial Sweeteners May Do More Than Sweeten: It Can Affect How the Body Reacts to Glucose


• Early Brain Responses to Words Predict Developmental Outcomes in Children With Autism


• Organic Polymers Show Sunny Potential: Groundwork Laid for Block Copolymer Solar Cells


• High-Efficiency Zinc-Air Battery Developed


• Adult Stem Cells Could Hold Key to Cure Type 1 Diabetes


• Gene That Helps Honey Bees Find Flowers (and Get Back Home) Discovered


• Gene Therapy Gives Mice Broad Protection to Pandemic Flu Strains, Including 1918 Flu


• Arctic Current Flowed Under Deep Freeze of Last Ice Age, Study Says


• Wit, Grit and a Supercomputer Yield Chemical Structure of HIV Capsid


• 'Low Sodium Diet' Key to Old Age for Stars: New Observations Challenge Current Stellar Theories


• Genetic Engineering Alters Mosquitoes' Sense of Smell


• Cosmic Glitch: Astronomers Discover New Phenomenon in Neutron Star


• Pigeons Peck for Computerized Treat


• 3-D Microelectrodes? Charred Micro-Bunny Sculpture Shows Promise of New Material for 3-D Shaping


• Re-Creating the Original Colors of Treasured Ivory Carvings from the Ancient Past


• Subfossil Forest Discovered at Building Site in Zurich

Posted May 28, 2013:

• Ancient Plants Reawaken: Plants Exposed by Retreating Glaciers Regrowing After Centuries Entombed Under Ice


• Changing Gut Bacteria Through Diet Affects Brain Function


• Picking Up a Second Language Is Predicted by Ability to Learn Patterns


• Scientists Develop CO ₂ Sequestration Technique


• Disappearance of Stromatolites, Earliest Visible Manifestation of Life: Ancient Enigma Solved?


• Shape-Shifting Nanoparticles Flip from Sphere to Net in Response to Tumor Signal


• Beer-Pouring Robot Programmed to Anticipate Human Actions


• Fast-Sinking Jellyfish Could Boost the Oceans' Uptake of Carbon Dioxide


• Children of Long-Lived Parents Less Likely to Get Cancer


• Soda and Illegal Drugs Cause Similar Damage to Teeth: Acids Erode Enamel