Vol. 142 No. 2829, June - June 2014
Index
- Mismeasuring world growth for 80 years.
- Obama hopes to STEM the tide of mediocrity.
- Pollen vortex II may be on the way.
- Anyone who ever has worked in a laboratory has seen them: magnetic stirrers that rotate magnetic stir bars in liquids to mix them.
- Astronomers have developed a new type of camera that allows scientists to take sharper images of the night sky than ever before.
- Earth-sized planet found in habitable zone.
- New evidence from research appearing in the Journal of Proteome Research suggests that infants who are fed formula, rather than breast milk, experience metabolic stress that could play a part in the long-recognized link between formula-feeding and an increased risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other conditions in adult life.
- Scientists are reporting development and successful lab tests on the first potential drug to pack a lethal one-two punch against melanoma skin cancer cells.
- The eyes of Texas are upon a distant galaxy.
- Using the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in lakes and rivers twice as efficiently as the best existing technology, maintains a report in the journal NanoLetters.
- Biomass fuel needs to deoxify.
- Misleading mineral overestimates water.
- Soviet mindset infects U.S. government agencies: feds all to Lysenkoism.
- Ecological change: cultivating resilience.
- Harnessing the sun's energy for use at night.
- Earth's orbit plays a big part.
- The making of Antarctica's Fjords.
- Where's the B12? In the meat.
- Deserts swallow more carbon than forests.
- Dried-out leaf hints of global warming.
- How neurons get wired.
- Expanded Franklin Institute opens.
- Administration provides efficiency standards.
- Does dinosaur skeleton confirm Bible story?
- No, it is not a trendy sports drink.
- You've got to 'hand' it to Homo Erectus.
- Mighty mini mite found on campus.
- Secondhand smoke more harmful to obese.
- Timing is key to knocking out cancer.
- Watermelon relieves post-exercise soreness.
- Death by asexuality: a path for mutations.
- Keep your eyes peeled for the next 50 years.
- They're about way more than just the flu.
- Finding reveals 'edits' in genetic information.
- Image boost for TVs, computers, and phones.
- Creating the holy grail of magnetic imaging.
- Diamonds are a computer's best friend.
- Tracking the ravages of time in paintings.
- Microbes rule in an underground desert.
- Robots search seafloor for new forms of life.
- Verifying authenticity and rooting out fakes.
- Open ocean fish farms on the horizon?