Science News. Posted May 8, 2013: Save the Par

Science News.

Posted May 8, 2013:

• Save the Parrots: Macaw Genome Sequenced


• PCB Concentrations Same in Urban and Rural Areas


• Biologist Maps the Family Tree of All Known Snake and Lizard Groups


• Exotic Atoms Hold Clues to Unsolved Physics Puzzle at the Dawn of the Universe


• Human Impacts on Natural World Underestimated


• Four New Dinosaur Species Identified


• New Red List Developed for Threatened Ecosystems


• Cannibal Tadpoles Key to Understanding Digestive Evolution


• Brain Anatomy of Dyslexia Is Not the Same in Men and Women, Boys and Girls


• Astronomers Discover Surprising Clutch of Hydrogen Clouds Lurking Among Our Galactic Neighbors


• Early Math and Reading Ability Linked to Job and Income in Adulthood


• First Biological Evidence of a Supernova


• Hit a 90 Mph Baseball? Scientists Pinpoint How We See It Coming


• Speed Test of Quantum Versus Conventional Computing: Quantum Computer Wins


• 'Invisibility Cloak' for Thermal Flow Constructed


• World's Most Extreme Hearing Animal: The Greater Wax Moth


• An Electronic Nose Can Tell Pears and Apples Apart

Posted May 7, 2013:

• Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot Gas


• U.S. Urban Trees Store Carbon, Provide Billions in Economic Value, Finds State-by-State Analysis


• Sunshine Could Benefit Health and Prolong Life, Study Suggests


• Rats Take High-Speed Multisensory Snapshots: Smell and Touch, Sniffing and 'Whisking,' Are Locked in Sync


• Genes Show One Big European Family


• 20-Million-Year-Old Amber Shatters Theories of Glass as a Liquid


• Decline in Snow Cover Spells Trouble for Many Plants, Animals


• Nerve Stimulation for Severe Depression Changes Brain Function


• Oldest? New 'Bone-Head' Dinosaur Hints at Higher Diversity of Small Dinosaurs


• Do Bats Know Voices of Friends They Hang out With? Bats May Recognize Voices of Other Bats


• Parents Who Suck on Their Infants' Pacifiers May Protect Their Children Against Developing Allergy


• Ice Age Ancestors Might Have Used Words in Common With Us


• Plants 'Talk' to Plants to Help Them Grow

Posted May 6, 2013:

• Climate Change, Not Human Activity, Led to Megafauna Extinction


• Boosting 'Cellular Garbage Disposal' Can Delay the Aging Process


• Personalized Bone Substitutes Created from Skin Cells


• Bats Use Blood to Reshape Tongue for Feeding


• NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish


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


• New Device Can Extract Human DNA With Full Genetic Data in Minutes


• 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