Science news Posted January 8, 2014: Quasars

Posted January 8, 2014:

• Quasars Illuminate Swiftly Swirling Clouds Around Galaxies


• Engineers Make World's Fastest Organic Transistor, Herald New Generation of See-Through Electronics


• Universe Measured to One-Percent Accuracy: Most Precise Calibration Yet of Cosmic 'Standard Ruler'


• Organic Mega Flow Battery Promises Breakthrough for Renewable Energy


• Massive Exoplanets May Be More Earth-Like Than Thought: 'Super-Earths' Likely to Have Oceans, Continents


• Infants Show Ability to Tell Friends from Foes


• Elephant Shark Genome Decoded: New Insights Gained Into Bone Formation and Immunity


• Newly Discovered Celestial Object Defies Categories: Is It a New Kind of Planet or a Rare Kind of Failed Star?


• Ocean's Hidden Waves Show Their Power: Origins of Giant Underwater Waves Explained

Posted January 7, 2014:

• Eight Million Lives Saved Since Surgeon General's Tobacco Warning 50 Years Ago


• Stormy Stars? Probing Weather on Brown Dwarfs


• Hubble Unveils a Deep Sea of Small and Faint Early Galaxies


• Ultra-Bright Young Galaxies Discovered


• Thousands of Unseen, Faraway Galaxies Discovered


• Snowball Effect of Overfishing Highlighted


• Early Sharks Reared Young in Prehistoric River-Delta Nursery


• Cancer Statistics 2014: Death Rates Continue to Drop


• Rare Eclipsing Double Asteroid Discovered


• First Dinosaurs Identified from Saudi Arabia


• Ants Shape Thoraces to Match Tasks They Perform