Science news Posted December 4, 2013: NASA's

Posted December 4, 2013:

• NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon


• Humans Threaten Wetlands' Ability to Keep Pace With Sea-Level Rise


• Sea Level Rise and Shoreline Changes Are Lead Influences on Floods from Tropical Cyclones


• Oldest Hominin DNA Sequenced: Mitochondrial Genome of a 400,000-Year-Old Hominin from Spain Decoded


• Industrial Age Helps Some Coastal Regions Capture Carbon Dioxide, Surprise Finding Shows


• First Evidence of Primates Regularly Sleeping in Caves


• Mysteries of Earth's Radiation Belts Uncovered by NASA Twin Spacecraft


• New Scheme Uses Shared Visual Cues to Help People Remember Multiple Passwords


• While the Arctic Ocean Is Largely a Carbon Sink, Parts Are Also a Source of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide


• First Global Snapshot of Key Coral Reef Fishes: Fishing Has Reduced Vital Seaweed Eaters by More Than 50 Percent


• How to Change Cell Types by Flipping a Single Switch


• Dads: How Important Are They? New Research Highlights Value of Fathers in Both Neurobiology and Behavior of Offspring


• Explosive Growth of Young Star


• More Extreme Weather Events Likely: Climate Projections of Unparalleled Accuracy for the Whole of Europe


• Ocean Crust Could Store Many Centuries of Industrial Carbon Dioxide


• Depression in Pregnant Mothers May Alter the Pattern of Brain Development in Their Babies

Posted December 3, 2013:

• International Drilling Mission to Lower Crust of Pacific Yields Unexpected Clues to Ocean Mysteries


• Domestication of Dogs May Have Elaborated on a Pre-Existing Capacity of Wolves to Learn from Humans


• 'Spooky Action' Builds a Wormhole Between 'Entangled' Quantum Particles


• Ocean Currents Shape Jupiter-Moon Europa's Icy Shell in Ways Critical for Potential Habitats


• Hubble Traces Subtle Signals of Water on Hazy Worlds


• Alzheimer's Risk Gene May Begin to Affect Brains in Childhood, Research Shows


• Tipping Points: Where May Abrupt Impacts from Climate Change Occur?


• Catastrophic Collapse of Sahara Desert's Wildlife


• Unlikely Collaboration Leads to Discovery of 'Gender-Bending' Plant


• Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol Disrupts Brain Circuitry: No Safe Level of Drinking During Pregnancy, Neuroscientist Says


• New Thermoelectronic Generator: Heat Energy Efficiently Converted to Electricity


• Dual Protein Knockout Could Lead to New Male Contraceptive


• New Evidence Suggests Neanderthals Organized Their Living Spaces


• New Research Shows Promise for Possible HIV Cure


• Division of Labor in the Test Tube: Bacteria Grow Faster If They Feed Each Other


• Genome for the King Cobra Sequenced