News in Brief
- Planetary Science
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is hot
High temperatures over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot suggest that storms pump heat into the atmosphere and warm the entire planet.
- Animals
Neonicotinoids are partial contraceptives for male honeybees
Male honeybees produce less living sperm if raised on pollen tainted with neonicotinoids, tests show.
- Neuroscience
New brain map most detailed yet
By combining different types of data, researchers have drawn a new detailed map of the human brain.
- Genetics
Swapping analogous genes no problem among species
Many genes are interchangeable between yeast, bacteria, plants and humans.
- Astronomy
Kepler tally grows: 104 more exoplanets confirmed
Kepler space telescope adds another 104 planets to its growing census of worlds in our galaxy.
- Genetics
Herbicide no match for fruit flies’ gut microbes
Friendly gut bacteria team up to break down herbicide that might otherwise harm fruit flies.
- Health & Medicine
No one-fits-all healthy diet exists
Mice’s response to diet varies with their genes.
- Planetary Science
Juno snaps its first pic of Jupiter
Jupiter and three of its moons take center stage in the first snapshot taken by the Juno spacecraft since arriving at the planet on July 4.
- Animals
How snails breathe through snorkels on land
Shells with a tube counterintuitively sealed at the end have hidden ways to let Asian snails snorkel while sealed in their shells.
- Health & Medicine
Unprotected sex less risky if HIV-positive partner on antiretroviral therapy
The risk of HIV transmission during unprotected sex drops drastically if the HIV-positive partner is taking antiretroviral therapy.
- Particle Physics
Three cousins join family of four-quark particles
Scientists with the Large Hadron Collider’s LHCb experiment report three new particles and confirm a fourth.
- Chemistry
Nuclear bomb debris can reveal blast size, even decades later
Measuring the relative abundance of various elements in debris left over from nuclear bomb tests can reveal the energy released in the initial blast, researchers report.
