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- Life
Infants, whether mice or human, love to be carried
Being toted around calms and quiets babies of both species.
- Microbes
Some like it acidic
In a higher-carbon world of altered oceans, a shelled plankton species may flourish.
- Life
Coelacanth is not closest fishy relative of terrestrial animals
Genes of “living fossil” do reveal changes needed to live on dry land.
- Health & Medicine
Colic in infancy linked to migraines later in childhood
No tie found between colicky babies and later tension headaches.
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- Health & Medicine
Bioengineered kidney transplanted into rat
Cleansed of cells and repopulated anew, bioengineered organ successfully produces urine.
- Cosmology
Dark matter detector reports hints of WIMPs
Experiment hundreds of meters underground detects three candidate signs of dark matter, though physicists are cautious about the finding.
- Life
New bird flu claims more victims
H7N9 influenza spreads to Beijing, may come from poultry and pigeons.
- Humans
Group size affects racial makeup of friend groups
Larger settings seem to promote segregation, simulation finds.
- Anthropology
American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting
Perhaps the oldest swatch of hominid skin yet found and –tzi the iceman’s Neandertal genetics are among the highlights from the physical anthropology meeting.
- Earth
Geologists develop weapons to combat that sinkhole feeling
What do five Porsches, several Kentucky thoroughbreds and a three-story building in Guatemala City have in common? They’ve all been swallowed by sinkholes. Sadly, the sudden cave-ins sometimes claim people’s lives as well. On February 28 the earth opened up underneath the Seffner, Fla., bedroom of Jeff Bush, entombing him. The freak accident highlighted Florida’s […]
