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)