Science news Posted January 23, 2014: Changi

Posted January 23, 2014:

• Changing Climate: How Dust Changed the Face of Earth


• New Genes Spring, Spread from Non-Coding DNA


• Timing Is Everything: How the Brain Links Memories of Sequential Events


• Bats Use Water Ripples to Hunt Frogs


• Los Angeles Would Experience Stronger-Than-Expected Ground Motion in Major Earthquake, Virtual Earthquake Generator Shows


• Genome of Longest-Living Cancer: 11,000-Year-Old Living Dog Cancer Reveals Its Origin, Evolution


• Watching Molecules Morph Into Memories: Breakthrough Allows Scientists to Probe How Memories Form in Nerve Cells


• Morphing Bat Skull Model: Using Engineering Plus Evolutionary Analyses to Answer Natural Selection Questions


• Fur and Feathers Keep Animals Warm by Scattering Light

Posted January 22, 2014:

• One Quarter of the World's Cartilaginous Fish, Namely Sharks and Rays, Face Imminent Extinction


• Humans Can Use Smell to Detect Levels of Dietary Fat


• Galaxies on FIRE: Star Feedback Results in Less Massive Galaxies


• Differences in Mammal Responses to Climate Change Demonstrated


• Humanity's Most Recent Common Male Ancestor Emerged Earlier Than Thought: 209,000 Years Ago, Study Finds


• Atomic-Scale Catalysts May Produce Cheap Hydrogen


• Bright Star Reveals New Neptune-Size Exoplanet


• Many Rare Mutations Contribute to Schizophrenia Risk, New Study Concludes


• Strontium Atomic Clock Sets New Records in Both Precision and Stability


• North and Tropical Atlantic Ocean Bringing Climate Change to Antarctica


• Herschel Telescope Detects Water on Dwarf Planet in Asteroid Belt


• Polar Bear Diet Changes as Sea Ice Melts


• Analysis of Salamander Jump Reveals an Unexpected Twist


• Parental Exposure to Marijuana Linked to Drug Addiction, Compulsive Behavior in Unexposed Progeny, Rodent Sudy Finds


• Engineer Converts Yeast Cells Into 'Sweet Crude' Biofuel


• Famine, Not Calcium Absorption, May Have Driven Evolution of Milk Tolerance in Europeans


• Fever-Reducing Meds May Help Spread the Flu