BLOG: Michael Mann says scientists have lost control of the public message about climate change, Alexandra Witze reports from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing meeting.

Though it has been confirmed numerous times since 1935, entanglement is as spooky as ever. 1935: Physicists Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen publish a paper in Physical Review asking “Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?” Their answer: no. The same year, in the journal Naturwissenschaften, Erwin Schrödinger coins the term Verschränkung, meaning “entanglement,” and develops his famous thought experiment of a cat that exists simultaneously in a state of being alive and dead. 1952: Building on earlier work by French physicis... (p. 25)

Anomalocaris, that fearsome predator of ancient seas, may have to return its title. A new analysis suggests that the monstrous shrimplike creature, which lived more than 500 million years ago, couldn’t handle crunchy food.Researchers modeled the stresses that Anomalocaris jaws would have undergone while feeding on snacks as hard as lobster tails. The team found that eating hard-shelled prey, such as the trilobites that were ubiquitous at the time, would have fractured the critter’s mouth plates, James Hagadorn of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science reported November 1.Though fierce-loo... (p. 13)

Odd spots on the lunar farside could be ancient material that originated deep inside the moon. (p. 13)