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Posted July 5, 2013:

• Solitary Lemurs Avoid Danger With a Little Help from the Neighbors


• New Insights Into the Early Bombardment History on Mercury


• Radically Better Smarphones May Be Possible Using System Inspired by Bird Migration: Molecular Chains Hypersensitive to Magnetic Fields


• Unique Epigenomic Code Identified During Human Brain Development


• Variation Between Hot Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres Revealed


• Cosmic Radio Bursts Point to Cataclysmic Origins


• Feeding Galaxy Caught in Distant Searchlight


• The Balancing Act of Producing More Food Sustainably


• Farming Started in Several Places at Once: Origins of Agriculture in the Fertile Crescent


• Mysterious Radio Flashes May Be Farewell Greetings from Massive Stars Collapsing Into Black Holes


• Ancient Jigsaw Puzzle of Past Supercontinent Revealed


• Space Weather Forecast Study Turns Table of Effective Predictions on Its Head


• In Bitter Cold Subglacial Lake, Surprising Life Goes on

Posted July 4, 2013:

• Antifreeze, Cheap Materials May Lead to Low-Cost Solar Energy


• Hawkmoths Use Ultrasound to Combat Bats


• Bacteria Communicate to Help Each Other Resist Antibiotics


• Cockatoos 'Pick' Puzzle Box Locks: Cockatoos Show Technical Intelligence on a Five-Lock Problem


• Archaeologists Unearth Carved Head of Roman God in Ancient Rubbish Dump


• Study of Mitochondrial DNA Ties Ancient Remains to Living Descendants


• White Dwarf Star Throws Light on Possible Variability of a Constant of Nature


• Spider Webs More Effective at Ensnaring Charged Insects


• Live Fast, Die Young: Long-Lived Mice Are Less Active, Biologists Find


• Earliest Evidence of Using Flower Beds for Burial Found in Raqefet Cave in Mt. Carmel