Science news

Posted July 26, 2013:

• Glass Scaffolds Help Heal Bone, Show Promise as Weight-Bearing Implants


• Global Warming to Cut Snow Water Storage 56 Percent in Oregon Watershed


• Fossil Shows Fish Had Sucker on Its Back


• Polymer Ribbons for Better Healing


• Largest Magnetic Fields in the Universe

Posted July 25, 2013:

• Bacterial Blockade: How Gut Microbes Can Inactivate Cardiac Drugs


• Behavior of Turbulent Flow of Superfluids Is Opposite That of Ordinary Fluids


• Centaurs: NASA's WISE Finds Mysterious Centaurs May Be Comets


• Mechanism Behind Squids' and Octopuses' Ability to Change Color Revealed


• Novel Mechanism in Spinal Cord Injury Discovered: 'See-Saw' Molecule May Offer Clues to Potential Therapies in the Long-Term


• Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in Mice: Location Where Brain Stores Memory Traces, Both False and Authentic, Pinpointed


• Women's Height Linked to Cancer Risk, Study Finds


• NASA's Van Allen Probes Discover Particle Accelerator in the Heart of Earth’s Radiation Belts


• Extinct Ancient Ape Did Not Walk Like a Human, Study Shows


• Secret of Plant Geometry Revealed: How Plants Set the Angles of Their Branches


• Bad Night's Sleep? The Moon Could Be to Blame


• World-Changing Technology Enables Crops to Take Nitrogen from the Air


• Silky Brain Implants May Help Stop Spread of Epilepsy


• Deciphering the Air-Sea Communication: Ocean Significantly Affects Long-Term Climate Fluctuations


• Pigeons Fly Home With a Map in Their Heads


• Elementary Physics in a Single Molecule