More Science PRs. Posted April 30, 2013: H

More Science PRs.

Posted April 30, 2013:

• How Petals Get Their Shape: Hidden Map Located Within Plant's Growing Buds


• Cheating Favors Extinction, Yeast Study Finds: Feedback Between Population and Evolutionary Dynamics


• Colossal Hot Cloud Envelopes Colliding Galaxies


• New Research Helps to Show How Turbulence Can Occur Without Inertia


• Saturn's Youthful Appearance Explained


• Musical Memory Deficits Start in Auditory Cortex


• First Land Animals Kept Fishlike Jaws for Millions of Years


• Does Antimatter Fall Up or Down? First Direct Evidence of How Atoms of Antimatter Interact With Gravity


• What Triggers Those Late-Night Snack Cravings?


• Deep, Detailed Image of Distant Universe


• Shedding Light on the Long Shadow of Childhood Adversity


• NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn


• Researchers Successfully Treat Autism in Infants: Playing Games That Infants Prefer Can Lessen Severity of Symptoms

Posted April 29, 2013:

• Silicone Liquid Crystal Stiffens With Repeated Compression: Discovery May Point Toward Self-Healing Materials


• How We Decode 'Noisy' Language in Daily Life: How People Rationally Interpret Linguistic Input


• Mediterranean Diet Linked to Preserving Memory


• World's Longest-Running Plant Monitoring Program Now Digitized


• Sea Turtles Benefiting from Protected Areas


• Key Shift in Brain That Creates Drive to Overeat Identified


• Cat and Mouse: One Gene Is Necessary for Mice to Avoid Predators


• First Snapshot of Organisms Eating Each Other: Feast Clue to Smell of Ancient Earth


• Cicadas Get a Jump on Cleaning


• Dinosaur Predecessors Gain Ground in Wake of World's Biggest Biodiversity Crisis


• Singing Humpback Whales Tracked on Northwest Atlantic Feeding Ground


• Patterned Hearts: Bioengineers Create Rubber-Like Material Bearing Micropatterns for Stronger, More Elastic Hearts


• Researchers Design Nanometer-Scale Material That Can Speed Up, Squeeze Light

Posted April 28, 2013:

• Plants Can Moderate Climate Warming, New Research Shows


• Turtle Genome Analysis Sheds Light on Turtle Ancestry and Shell Evolution

Posted April 26, 2013:

• Hitting 'Reset' in Protein Synthesis Restores Myelination: Suggests New Treatment for Misfolded Protein Diseases Such as Alzheimer's


• Sea Surface Temperatures Reach Highest Level in 150 Years on Northeast Continental Shelf


• Computer Scientists Suggest New Spin on Origins of Evolvability: Competition to Survive Not Necessary?


• Fish Win Fights on Strength of Personality


• New Excavations in Sweden Indicate Use of Fertilizers 5,000 Years Ago


• Bird Navigation: Great Balls of Iron

Posted April 25, 2013:

• NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings


• Scientists Image Nanoparticles in Action


• Longer Days Bring 'Winter Blues' -- For Rats, Not Humans


• Missing Link in Parkinson's Disease Found: Discovery Also Has Implications for Heart Failure


• Earth's Center Is 1,000 Degrees Hotter Than Previously Thought, Synchrotron X-Ray Experiment Shows


• Whales Are Able to Learn from Others: Humpbacks Pass on Hunting Tips


• 'When in Rome': Monkeys Found to Conform to Social Norms


• Ecology Buys Time for Evolution: Climate Change Disrupts Songbird's Timing Without Impacting Population Size (Yet)


• Archeologists Unearth New Information on Origins of Maya Civilization


• Einstein's Gravity Theory Passes Toughest Test Yet


• 'Taxels' Convert Mechanical Motion to Electronic Signals


• Vaterite: Crystal Within a Crystal Helps Resolve an Old Puzzle


• How Trees Play Role in Smog Production


• With Wave of the Hand, Researchers Create Touch-Based Interfaces


• First Edition of a Bookworm's Genome


• Key Cellular Organelle Involved in Gene Silencing Identified