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Posted June 27, 2013:

• Scientists Discover Thriving Colonies of Microbes in Ocean 'Plastisphere'


• Prevailing View of How the Brain Is Wired Overturned?


• NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble'


• Imagination Can Change What We Hear and See


• Babies Can Read Each Other’s Moods, Study Finds


• Spiral Galaxies Like Milky Way Bigger Than Thought


• Violent Birth of Neutron Stars: Computer Simulations Confirm Sloshing and Spiral Motions as Stellar Matter Falls Inward

Posted June 26, 2013:

• Social Animals Have More Social Smarts


• Human Activities Threaten Sumatran Tiger Population


• First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered


• Comparing Genomes of Wild and Domestic Tomato


• Solar Power Heads in a New Direction: Thinner


• A Stepping-Stone for Oxygen on Earth


• New Brain Imaging Study Provides Support for the Notion of Food Addiction


• DNA Found Outside Genes Plays Largely Unknown, Potentially Vital Roles: Thousands of Previously Unknown RNA Molecules Identified


• Getting the Carbon out of Emissions


• Tired and Edgy? Sleep Deprivation Boosts Anticipatory Anxiety


• A 700,000-Year-Old Horse Gets Its Genome Sequenced


• Location of Upwelling in Earth's Mantle Discovered to Be Stable


• Survivor of Stellar Collision Is New Type of Pulsating Star


• How Throwing Made Us Human


• Climate Tug of War Disrupting Australian Atmospheric Circulation Patterns


• Astronomers Spy on Galaxies in the Raw


• How Men and Women Cooperate


• Sea Level Along Maryland's Shorelines Could Rise Two Feet by 2050


• Realistic Robot Carp Created: First Robot Fish With Autonomous 3-D Movement in Asia