Issue for the week of January 14th, 2012

With a little data, Eureqa generates fundamental laws of nature (p. 20)

Elite athletes get their heads in the game (p. 22)

Elements under pressure reveal secrets of extreme chemistry (p. 26)

Nine-year record collected from orbit finds supply dropping mostly due to agriculture. (p. 5)

A brain-damaged man yields controversial clues to how people identify complex objects. (p. 8)

Treatment enables cells to produce a key blood-clotting compound, allowing some patients to quit medication. (p. 9)

The Kepler space telescope gets one step closer to its mission of discovering habitable worlds by finding two orbs of terrestrial proportions orbiting a distant sunlike star. (p. 10)

Nearly a year after receiving a spectacular celestial gift, astrophysicists are still asking: ?What is it?? (p. 11)

Based on the way that primitive lungfish use their fins to move along tank bottoms, researchers argue for an underwater start to four-legged locomotion. (p. 12)

Island?s natural fruit supply iffy for orangutans. (p. 12)

Just hearing recordings of predators, in the absence of any real danger, caused sparrows to raise fewer babies. (p. 13)

A fossilized feathered dinosaur dined on bird not long before its own demise. (p. 13)

People in southern Arabia around 100,000 years ago made tools like those of East Africans. (p. 14)

When stressed, bacteria can temporarily turn comatose and dodge germ-screening tests. (p. 16)

The complete genetic instruction book for making monarch butterflies contains information about how the insects manage their long migration to Mexico. (p. 16)

Naked mole rats don?t feel the burn of acid thanks to tweaks in a protein involved in sending pain messages to the brain. (p. 17)

Decisions more democratic when individuals with no preset preference join a group. (p. 18)

Analysis of stock trading data suggests an effort to manipulate the market in 2007. (p. 18)

Review by Bruce Bower (p. 30)

Review by Nick Bascom (p. 30)

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A pituitary hormone goes from labor drug to love drug. (p. 4)

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/issue/id/337264/title/Issue_for_the_week_of_January_14th,_2012

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