More Science. Posted May 6, 2013: NASA's Spitz

More Science.

Posted May 6, 2013:

• NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish


• Wind, Not Water, Formed Mound on Mars, New Analysis Suggests


• More Than a Good Eye: Robot Uses Arms, Location and More to Discover Objects


• Do-It-Yourself Invisibility With 3-D Printing


• Engineers Manipulate a Buckyball by Inserting a Single Water Molecule


• Ubiquitous Engineered Nanomaterials Can Cause Lung Inflammation: Substances Are Used in Everything from Paint to Sporting Equipment


• Flame Retardants, Used in Everyday Products, May Be Toxic to Children: Lower Intelligence, Hyperactivity Seen


• Reversal of the Black Widow Myth: Some Male Spiders Prefer to Eat Old Females Rather Than Mate With Them


• Invisible Pattern Can Put a Stop to Counterfeit Designer Clothing


• Microwave Oven Cooks Up Solar Cell Material

Posted May 5, 2013:

• Improving Materials That Convert Heat to Electricity and Vice-Versa: Turning Waste Heat Into Electricity


• As Climate Changes, Boreal Forests to Shift North and Relinquish More Carbon Than Expected


• Brighter Clouds, Cooler Climate? Organic Vapors Affect Clouds, Leading to Previously Unidentified Climate Cooling


• Discovery Helps Show How Breast Cancer Spreads

Posted May 3, 2013:

• New Kind of Cosmic Flash May Reveal Birth of a Black Hole


• Epilepsy Cured in Mice Using Brain Cells


• Human Brain Cells Developed in Lab, Grow in Mice


• 'Shockingly Bright' Burst of Gamma Rays from Dying Star in Distant Galaxy


• 'Dark Oxidants' Form Away from Sunlight in Lake and Ocean Depths, Underground Soils


• New Dinosaur Fossil Discovered in China: Meat-Eating Dinosaur from Late Jurassic Period Was Less Than a Year Old


• Monkey Math: Baboons Show Brain's Ability to Understand Numbers


• Injectable Nano-Network Controls Blood Sugar in Diabetics for Days at a Time


• How to Frustrate a Quantum Magnet: 16 Atomic Ions Simulate a Quantum Antiferromagnet


• Hearing the Russian Meteor, in America: Sound Arrived in 10 Hours, Lasted 10 More


• Individual Brain Cells Track Where We Are and How We Move


• Telling Time on Saturn: Undergraduate Student Shows How Planet's Magnetosphere Changes With the Seasons


• Boom in Jellyfish: Overfishing Called Into Question


• King Richard III Archaeological Unit Discovers Roman Cemetery Under Car Park


• Risks of H7N9 Infection Mapped