Science news

Posted July 22, 2013:

• Evolution Picks Up Hitchhikers: Pervasive Genetic Hitchhiking and Clonal Interference in Evolving Yeast Populations


• NASA Releases Images of Earth by Two Interplanetary Spacecraft


• Breastfed Children Are Less Likely to Develop ADHD Later in Life, Study Suggests


• Ability to Learn New Words Based on Efficient Communication Between Brain Areas That Control Movement and Hearing


• Most Flammable Boreal Forests in North America Become More So


• Microchips That Mimic the Brain: Novel Microchips Imitate the Brain's Information Processing in Real Time


• Climate Forecasts Shown to Warn of Crop Failures


• Geochemical 'Fingerprints' Leave Evidence That Megafloods Eroded Steep Gorge


• Greening of the Earth Pushed Way Back in Time


• Sea Level Rise: New Iceberg Theory Points to Areas at Risk of Rapid Disintegration


• Climate Threatens Food Security of Pacific Islands


• From Obscurity to Dominance: Tracking the Rapid Evolutionary Rise of Ray-Finned Fish


• Thin, Flexible Glass for Energy Storage


• Too Many Antioxidants? Resveratrol Blocks Many Cardiovascular Benefits of Exercise


• Magnets Make Droplets Dance: Reversible Switching Between Static and Dynamic Self-Assembly