X-Ray 'Eyes'

https://student.societyforscience.org/article/x-ray-%E2%80%98eyes%E2%80%99-tiny-molecules-ultra-small-scale-films

The photo Bullet Through Apple by Harold Edgerton captures the exact moment when a bullet pierces the fruit. To do so, his camera shutter had to be faster than the speeding bullet. For very small scale movies, far faster cameras are needed: ones that capture the action using X-rays.

Courtesy of Skinner Inc., www.skinnerinc.com

Fresh Effort to Clone Extinct Animal

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25052233

Celia can now be seen at the reception centre of the National Park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido in Aragon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25052233

Cancers Like it Cool

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https://student.societyforscience.org/article/cold-environment-suppresses-mice-immune-system-can-foster-cancer-growth

Are these mice cuddling to stay warm? Most lab animals live in rooms kept cooler than they find comfortable. If they also have cancer, cool room temperatures can boost their tumors’ growth and spread, new data show.

Courtesy of Kathleen Kokolus and Sandra Sexton

A Corsage That Bites

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/corsage-bites

FAKING IT  A female orchid mantis does a near-perfect floral imitation, fanning out her petallike legs as she clings to a twig.

Roger Meerts/Shutterstock

Mice on Steroids

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https://student.societyforscience.org/article/mice-continue-to-build-muscle-after-stopping-steroid-use

Muscles in mice on steroids grew larger (right) than in mice that hadn’t been taking the drugs (left). And the effects of steroids lingered long after the mice stopped receiving the drug.

J.C. BRUUSGAARD/ UNIVERSITY OF OSLO

Staph Germs Hide Out In The Hidden Recesses Of Your Nose

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/10/250026572/staph-germs-hide-out-in-the-hidden-recesses-of-your-nose

The interior of the nose is like a lush rain forest that's barely been explored.

Jupiter's Moon Europa Spotted Spouting Water

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=jupiters-moon-europa-spotted-spouting-water

Spouting Water on Europa: Possible plumes of water spraying from Europa’s south pole have been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Image: K. Retherford/Southwest Research Institute

When and Where Did Dogs First Become Our Pets?

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http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-78184139/

This skull belonged to a Pleistocene wolf that lived 26,000 years ago near the Trou des Nutons cave in Belgium. This wolf species was particularly large.

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

Gaming Can Make A Better World - TED.com Video

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http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html

DreamHack 

2004 Winter

New Dinosaur Species Joins Ranks of Giant Carnivores

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https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/new-dinosaur-species-joins-ranks-giant-carnivores

An artist's impression of Siats shows the predator terrorizing smaller tyrannosaurs during the Late Cretaceous period.

Julio Lacerda

Gotcha! Photons Seen Without Being Destroyed in a First

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http://www.livescience.com/41465-photons-seen-without-being-destroyed.html

Scientists have used a single atom trapped in an optical resonator to detect the presence of a reflected photon without destroying that packet of light.  Credit: MPQ, Quantum Dynamics Division.

The Comet That Came in From the Cold

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https://student.societyforscience.org/article/comet-came-cold?mode=topic&context=60

NASA/ESA/STSCI/AURA/HUBBLE HERITAGE

Giant Magellan Telescope

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http://www.gmto.org/overview.html

http://www.gmto.org/gallery-stills.html

Scientists Find 507-Year-Old Clam

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http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-ming-507-year-old-clam-20131118,0,2156754.story#axzz2meQQSjIo

Ming, the 507-year-old clam. (Bangor University)

Ants on Guard

https://student.societyforscience.org/article/ants-guard

Ants protect the tangarana tree from being crowded out by other plants. In exchange, the ants live in hollow spaces in the branches.

Tiffany Weir

Sleep Therapy for Fears

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https://student.societyforscience.org/article/sleep-therapy-fears

Scientists use smells and sleep to lessen a fear. 

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Restoring A Sense of Touch

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https://student.societyforscience.org/article/restoring-sense-touch

Electrodes implanted in the brain can send signals that make a monkey think its finger has been touched. The experiment suggests ways to build artificial hands or arms that restore a feeling of touch to users.

G. TABOT ET AL/PNAS 2013

Baby Pics Can Diagnose Deadly Cancer

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http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/kinderlab/baby-pics-can-diagnose-deadly-cancer?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=2&con=baby-pics-can-diagnose-deadly-cancer

     Pictures of baby Noah showed a milkiness in one eye, which later indicated retinoblastoma.

Elizabeth Shaw, courtesy of Bryan Shaw  

Cymatic Experiment - YouTube

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtiSCBXbHAg

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/06/the-visual-patterns-of-audio-frequencies-seen-through-vibrating-sand/

Whale Survives Harpoon Attack 130 Years Ago to Become 'Worlds Oldest Mammal'

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-461703/Whale-survives-harpoon-attack-130-years-ago-worlds-oldest-mammal.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-461703/Whale-survives-harpoon-attack-130-years-ago-worlds-oldest-mammal.html

Pulverized Asteroid Around Distant Star Was Full of Water

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=planetary-system-watery-rocky-asteroid

OCEAN BEARER: 

The oceans on Earth and other rocky planets likely arrived via impacting asteroids and comets. Now, astronomers have spotted the remains of a watery asteroid around a distant star that could represent just such an ocean bearer. 

Image: Mark A. Garlick, space-art.co.uk, University of Warwick and University of Cambridge

Seeing in 3D 'Possible with One Eye', St. Andrews Study Suggests

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-24525501

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-24525501

William Pollack Dies at 87; His Vaccine Saved Infants

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/us/william-pollack-dies-at-87-his-vaccine-saved-infants.html?ref=science&_r=0

Lasker Foundation William Pollack                            

600,000 Bats Killed at Wind Energy Facilities in 2012

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-600000-bats-killed-at-wind-energy-facilities-in-2012-study-says-20131108,0,1587861.story#axzz2kY51q9Vu

A new study estimates that more than 600,000 bats were killed by wind power turbines in 2012. 

(Seong Joon Cho / Bloomberg / November 1, 2013)

Super-Typhoon Haiyan Lashes the Philippines

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131108091814.htm

NASA AIRS infrared data showed cloud top temperatures as cold as 210 degrees kelvin/-81.67F/-63.15C/ in the thick band of thunderstorms around the center. Those cold temperatures indicate very high, powerful thunderstorms with very heavy rain potential. 

(Credit: NASA/JPL, Ed Olsen)

The Blood Typing Game

http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/bloodtypinggame/game/index.html

http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/bloodtypinggame/

New Paradigm for Solar Cell Construction Demonstrated

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131112123842.htm

An illustration of the perovskite crystal fabricated in the experiment. 

(Credit: Art: Felice Macera)

Rare New Microbe Found in Two Distant Clean Rooms - NASA JPL

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-319&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=releases20131106

This microscopic image shows dozens of individual bacterial cells of the recently discovered species Tersicoccus phoenicis. This species has been found in only two places: clean rooms in Florida and South America where spacecraft are assembled for launch. Spacecraft clean rooms are one of the most thoroughly checked environments on Earth for what microbes are present. The monitoring provides an indication of what species might get into space aboard a spacecraft. The image includes a scale bar showing that each of the bacterial cells is about one micrometer, or micron, across (about 0.00004 inch). 

 Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Legless Lizard Discovered Near LAX (and no, it's not a snake)

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-legless-lizard-lax-20130918,0,3095241.story

http://www.wildherps.com/species/A.pulchra.html

John Sullivan

Will Your Next Burger Come From a Petri Dish?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23576143

Mark Post, creator of the world's first lab-grown hamburger, holds a petri dish of cultured beef. He believes lab-grown meat could provide a solution to global food shortages and help combat climate change.

Photograph by David Parry, Reuters

Why Are Lobsters Blue, and Why Does Cooking Turn Them Red?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/why-are-lobsters-blue-and-why-does-cooking-turn-them-red.html?ref=science

Victoria Roberts

Mama Mia, Mama Mia! A Canadian Bohemian Rhapsodizes About String Theory - Video

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/09/18/223716891/mama-mia-mama-mia-a-canadian-bohemian-rhapsodizes-about-string-theory

http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/bohemian-gravity.html

Black Widow Spider Fan Gets Dangerously Close to His Subject

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/21/224216584/black-widow-spider-fan-gets-dangerously-close-to-his-subject

Nature writer Jackson Landers kept a black widow alive in a jar on his desk for months.

Courtesy Jackson Landers

Building An Almost-Brain - Cells in the Lab Weave Themselves into Tiny, Brainlike Structures

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/09/building-an-almost-brain/

Not a squid. This lab-grown tissue has brainlike structures, including neurons (in green) and the stem cells that will make more neurons (here appearing red and purple). 

Credit: Madeline A. Lancaster

Researchers Tackle a Wealth of Problems by Creating Novel Surfaces That Repel Liquids

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/09/cool-jobs-repellent-chemistry/

Lotus leaves’ waxy surfaces and tiny, closely spaced bumps repel water, naturally. 

Credit: iStockphoto