Science news.

Posted June 9, 2013:

• How Do You Feed Nine Billion People?


• Scientists Map Process by Which Brain Cells Form Long-Term Memories

Posted June 5, 2013:

• Bone Tumor in 120,000-Year-Old Neandertal Discovered

Posted June 7, 2013:

• Magpies Make Decisions Faster When Humans Look at Them


• Stranded Orcas Hold Critical Clues for Scientists


• Whispering Light Hears Liquids Talk

Posted June 6, 2013:

• Scientists Confirm Theory Regarding the Origins of the Sucking Disc of Remora Fish


• By Trying It All, Predatory Sea Slug Learns What Not to Eat


• Earthquake Acoustics Can Indicate If a Massive Tsunami Is Imminent


• Three-Billion-Year-Old Microfossils Include Plankton


• Compulsive No More: Clues to What Causes Compulsive Behavior Could Improve OCD Treatments


• Spooky Action Put to Order: Different Types of 'Entanglement' Classified


• Stalagmites Provide New View of Abrupt Climate Events Over 100,000 Years


• How Young Genes Gain a Toehold on Becoming Indispensable


• Pollution in Northern Hemisphere Helped Cause 1980s African Drought


• MRI Study: Breastfeeding Boosts Babies' Brain Growth


• 2011 Draconid Meteor Shower Deposited a Ton of Meteoritic Material on Earth


• Rewinding Development: A Step Forward for Stem Cell Research


• Promising Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries


• Quantum Teleportation Between Atomic Systems Over Long Distances


• Predicting the Future of Coral Reefs in a Changing World


• Scientists Coax Brain to Regenerate Cells Lost in Huntington's Disease in Mouse Model


• How Birds Lost Their Penises


• Unusual Antibodies in Cows Suggest New Ways to Make Medicines for People


• 'Dust Trap' Around Young Star Solves Long-Standing Planet Formation Mystery


• Cassini Sees Precursors to Aerosol Haze on Saturn's Largest Moon, Titan


• Stars Don't Obliterate Their Planets (Very Often)


• Surgeons Implant Bioengineered Vein: Kidney Dialysis Patient First in U.S. to Receive Lab-Grown Blood Vessel


• Living Fossils? Actually, Sturgeon Fish Are Evolutionary Speedsters

Posted June 5, 2013:

• Irish Chronicles Reveal Links Between Cold Weather and Volcanic Eruptions


• Black Holes Abundant Among the Earliest Stars


• 'Temporal Cloaking' Could Bring More Secure Optical Communications


• A 20-Minute Bout of Yoga Stimulates Brain Function Immediately After


• Scientists Unexpectedly Discover Stress-Resistant Stem Cells in Fat Tissue Removed During Liposuction


• Scientists Discover How HIV Kills Immune Cells; Findings Have Implications for HIV Treatment


• Where Trash Accumulates in the Deep Sea


• Life on Earth Shockingly Comes from out of This World


• Drug Prevents Post-Traumatic Stress-Like Symptoms in Mice


• NASA's Spitzer Sees Milky Way's Blooming Countryside


• First Observation of Spin Hall Effect in a Quantum Gas Is Step Toward 'Atomtronics'


• Cat's Paw Nebula 'Littered' With Baby Stars


• Young Star Suggests Our Sun Was a Feisty Toddler


• Malaria's Deadly Grip Revealed: Severe Malaria Breakthrough


• Researchers Announce Discovery of Oldest-Known Fossil Primate Skeleton


• Ancient Trapped Water Explains Earth's First Ice Age


• Concerns About Anesthesia's Impact on the Brain


• Scientists Map the Wiring of the Biological Clock


• Social Networks Could Help Prevent Disease Outbreaks in Endangered Chimpanzees


• Personality Is the Result of Nurture, Not Nature, Suggests Study on Birds


• 'Lizard King' Fossil Shows Giant Reptiles Coexisted With Mammals During Globally Warm Past