Science news Posted October 31, 2013: Magnet

Posted October 31, 2013:

• Magnetic 'Force Field' Shields Giant Gas Cloud During Collision With Milky Way


• Former Missile-Tracking Telescope Helps Reveal Fate of Baby Pulsar


• First Look at Diverse Life Below Rare Tallgrass Prairies


• Is Global Heating Hiding out in the Oceans? Parts of Pacific Warming 15 Times Faster Than in Past 10,000 Years


• New Techniques Produce Cleanest Graphene Yet


• Gene Found to Foster Synapse Formation in the Brain


• Critical Gene in Retinal Development and Motion Sensing Identified


• Most Detailed Picture Yet of Key AIDS Protein


• Underwater Robots Influence Complex Swimming Behaviors of Schooling Fish


• Dogs Know a Left-Sided Wag from a Right


• Butterflies Show Origin of Species as an Evolutionary Process, Not a Single Event


• Could a Milky Way Supernova Be Visible from Earth in Next 50 Years?


• Geoengineering the Climate Could Reduce Vital Rains


• Patient in 'Vegetative State' Not Just Aware, but Paying Attention, Study Suggests


• Seeing in the Dark: Most People Can See Their Body's Movement in the Absence of Light

Posted October 30, 2013:

• Babies Can Learn Their First Lullabies in the Womb


• A First Step in Learning by Imitation, Baby Brains Respond to Another's Actions


• The Secret Math of Plants: Biologists Uncover Rules That Govern Leaf Design


• How the Universe's Violent Youth Seeded Cosmos With Iron


• New Multiple Action Intestinal Hormone Corrects Diabetes


• Lava World Baffles Astronomers: Planet Kepler-78b 'Shouldn't Exist'


• Earth-Like Exoplanet in Mass and Size: While Too Hot to Support Life, Kepler 78b Is Roughly the Size of Earth


• Incurable Brain Cancer Gene Silenced: Gene Regulation Technology Increases Survival Rates in Mice With Glioblastoma


• Warming Will Disturb Balance of Soil Nutrients in Drylands, Make Drylands Less Productive


• Chinese Bats Likely Source of SARS Virus


• Pain in Infancy Alters Response to Stress, Anxiety Later in Life


• Scientists Digitally Reconstruct Giant Steps Taken by Dinosaurs for the First Time


• First Results from LUX Dark Matter Detector: Searching for Elusive Dark Matter


• Brain Regions Can Be Specifically Trained With Video Games


• World's Most Powerful Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser


• What Happens When the Lightbulb Turns On? Measuring a Person's Creativity from Single Spoken Words


• Moral in the Morning, but Dishonest in the Afternoon