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The November 21st Issue of Science News is online!
Featured stories for this issue:
• INVISIBILITY UNCLOAKED | In race to make things disappear, scientists gain ground on science fiction
• APING THE STONE AGE | Chimp chasers join artifact extractors to probe the roots of stone tools
These, along w/ the latest news/book reviews/interviews/and more...
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Science News Magazine A century or more before the Spanish set foot in the Americas, birds of a multi-hued feather were bred together in what’s now a desolate part of northwestern Mexico. That, at least, is the implication of a new analysis of bones of prehistoric scarlet macaws...
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Colorful birds possibly raised for ceremonial and trade purposes long before Spanish arrival
Science News Magazine News updates from the Society for Neuroscience meeting...
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More news from the Society for Neuroscience meeting
Science News Magazine The safe answer to how a lantern shark turns its luminescence on and off is: “Any way it wants.” Now researchers have looked into the belly of the beast and found that three hormones act as on-off switches for these glow-in-the-dark sharks. It is the first discovery of hormones controlling bioluminescence in animals...
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Study is first to find chemicals, rather than nerve cells, controlling bioluminescence
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Like fussy first-time homebuyers, microbes in and on the human body choose their digs according to three strict rules: location, location, location. If the palm of the hand is a bustling metropolitan city crammed with hundreds of species, the ear canal is central Wyoming.
This variety is revealed by the most comprehensi...ve inventory yet of the body’s microbial community. Reported online November 5 in Science, the research provides one of the most thorough whole-body maps to date of the estimated 100 trillion individual microbes the body harbors inside and out...Read More
This variety is revealed by the most comprehensi...ve inventory yet of the body’s microbial community. Reported online November 5 in Science, the research provides one of the most thorough whole-body maps to date of the estimated 100 trillion individual microbes the body harbors inside and out...Read More
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Study offers most comprehensive inventory yet of the human microbiome and a basis for understanding how those microbes affect health
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Were Old McDonald in the genome sequencing business, he would be among the researchers that have announced decoding the complete genetic blueprints of the horse, pig and cucumber.
Knowing the details of these three genomes provides scientists with new information about the genetic makeup of economically useful animals and plants, but also helps answer some basic questions about biology and evolution...
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Shedding new light on chromosome structures, equines join pigs and cucumbers on roster of organisms to have DNA code spelled out letter by letter
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WASHINGTON — Energetic gamma rays are providing astronomers with a new way to hunt those hard-to-find whirling dervishes known as pulsars.
“We usually have to look over the whole sky” to find pulsars, said Scott Ransom of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va. “Now we can use the gamma-ray point sources as guides, telling us exactly where to look.”
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Fermi Telescope observations provide candidates to check for radio emissions
Science News Magazine An obscure group of scorpionflies with specialized mouthparts may have pollinated ancient plants millions of years before flowers evolved, a new study suggests...
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Scorpionflies may have aided plant reproduction long before blossoms evolved
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Only days after birth, babies have a bawl with language. Newborn babies cry in melodic patterns that they have heard in adults’ conversations — even while in the womb.
Audio is provided w/ the story, comparing falling/rising baby cries and identifying their origins...
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Days after birth, French and German infants wail to the melodic structure of their languages
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Using the locations of moderate-sized quakes to estimate where “The Big One” will eventually strike may not work for all regions, a new study reveals.
Many moderate-sized temblors that occur far from the edges of tectonic plates could be merely the aftershocks of larger quakes that occurred along the same faults decades or even centuries ago, researchers report...
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Quakes far from tectonic plate boundaries may simply be aftershocks of ancient temblors
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A gigantic galactic graveyard lurks in the distant universe, and the death toll is growing.
New observations establish a supercluster centered on the cluster CL0016+16 as the largest galactic congregation ever found, astronomers report...
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The largest known galactic congregation is bigger than astronomers thought—and its inhabitants are all dead or dying
Science News Magazine A series of shots can knock out genital lesions in women infected with a dangerous strain of human papillomavirus, or HPV, a new study finds. Although the experimental vaccine wasn’t effective in everyone tested, most of the women showed benefits and many appear to have developed long-lasting immunity against this strain of HPV and the precancerous growths it can spawn...
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Therapeutic shots can wipe out precancerous growths caused by HPV
Science News Magazine New images from the MESSENGER spacecraft’s third trip past Mercury reveal some of the most recent volcanic activity on the planet’s surface, scientists reported...
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Volcanic activity more recent than expected, MESSENGER flyby shows
Science News Magazine Dangerous debris near rocket launches could be tracked in real time by combining tricks from particle colliders, moon landings and vulture tracking, a new study finds...
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Extending a bird-watching system, a team devises method for real-time spotting of potentially dangerous debris during launch
Science News Magazine The famed snows of Kilimanjaro may soon appear only in old tourist photos and a short story by Ernest Hemingway if current rates of melting persist, a new study suggests...
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World-renowned ice caps may disappear by the 2020s
