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- Bonobos will share with strangers before acquaintances
- Terrace farming unearthed at ancient desert city of Petra
- How young star and planets grow simultaneously
- Galactic geysers fueled by star stuff
- Accepted model of memory formation refuted
- Itchiness explained: Specific set of nerve cells signal itch but not pain, researchers find
- Language learning begins in utero, study finds; Newborn memories of oohs and ahs heard in the womb
- Magnetic forces without magnets: Physicist calculates field strengths in the early universe
| Bonobos will share with strangers before acquaintances Posted: 02 Jan 2013 02:33 PM PST Bonobos, those notoriously frisky, ardently social great apes of the Congo, value social networking so much, they share food with a stranger before an acquaintance.  |
| Terrace farming unearthed at ancient desert city of Petra Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:04 AM PST New archaeological research dates the heyday of terrace farming at the ancient desert city of Petra to the first century. This development led to an explosion of agricultural activity, increasing the city's strategic significance as a military prize for the Roman Empire.  |
| How young star and planets grow simultaneously Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:03 AM PST The ALMA telescope gives astronomers their first glimpse of a fascinating stage of star formation and helps resolve a mystery about how young planets and their infant star can both grow at the same time.  |
| Galactic geysers fueled by star stuff Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:01 AM PST Enormous outflows of charged particles from the center of our galaxy, stretching more than halfway across the sky and moving at supersonic speeds, have been detected and mapped with CSIRO's 64-m Parkes radio telescope.  |
| Accepted model of memory formation refuted Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:01 AM PST A widely accepted model of long-term memory formation — that it hinges on a single enzyme in the brain — is flawed, according to new research. The new study found that mice lacking the enzyme that purportedly builds memory were in fact still able to form long-term memories as well as normal mice could.  |
| Itchiness explained: Specific set of nerve cells signal itch but not pain, researchers find Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:45 AM PST Researchers have uncovered strong evidence that mice have a specific set of nerve cells that signal itch but not pain, a finding that may settle a decades-long debate about these sensations, and, if confirmed in humans, help in developing treatments for chronic itch, including itch caused by life-saving medications.  |
| Language learning begins in utero, study finds; Newborn memories of oohs and ahs heard in the womb Posted: 02 Jan 2013 05:36 AM PST Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists have discovered. The study indicates that babies begin absorbing language while still in the womb, earlier than previously thought.  |
| Magnetic forces without magnets: Physicist calculates field strengths in the early universe Posted: 02 Jan 2013 05:35 AM PST Magnets have practically become everyday objects. Earlier on, however, the universe consisted only of nonmagnetic elements and particles. Just how the magnetic forces came into existence has now been researched. A theoretical physicist describes a new mechanism for the magnetization of the universe even before the emergence of the first stars.  |
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