Science news Posted October 9, 2013: Carbon'

Posted October 9, 2013:

• Carbon's New Champion: Carbyne, a Simple Chain of Carbon Atoms, Strongest Material of All?


• A Strange Lonely Planet Found Without a Star


• Urgent New Time Frame for Climate Change Revealed by Massive Analysis


• Chemistry: Evidence for a New Nuclear 'Magic Number'


• Longer Life for Humans Linked to Further Loss of Endangered Species


• Water and Lava, but Curiously, No Explosion


• Chimpanzees of a Feather Sit Together: Friendships Are Based on Similar Personalities


• A Close Look at the Toby Jug Nebula


• New Type of Impact Crater Discovered on Mars


• 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Multiscale Models for Complex Chemical Systems

Posted October 8, 2013:

• Diamond 'Super-Earth' May Not Be Quite So Precious


• Blood Vessel Cells Can Repair, Regenerate Organs


• Growing Bacteria Keep Time, Know Their Place


• A Slow, Loving, 'Affective' Touch May Be Key to a Healthy Sense of Self


• Weighed Down by Guilt: Research Shows It's More Than a Metaphor


• Part of Brain That Makes Humans and Primates Social Creatures May Play Similar Role in Carnivores


• DNA Research Sheds Light on Ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews


• Iron Melt Network Helped Grow Earth's Core, Study Suggests


• Primate Brains Follow Predictable Developmental Pattern


• Evolutionary Question Answered: Ants More Closely Related to Bees Than to Most Wasps


• Working Together: Bacteria Join Forces to Produce Electricity


• Babies Learn to Anticipate Touch in the Womb


• 'Brain Training' May Boost Working Memory, but Not Intelligence


• First Ever Evidence of a Comet Striking Earth


• Unexpected Genomic Change Through 400 Years of French-Canadian History


• Terrestrial Ecosystems at Risk of Major Shifts as Temperatures Increase


• 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics: Higgs Particle and the Origin of Mass