ANIMALS - Study finds contented males more attractive
(Phys.org) —Happy, sane males have better love lives – at least for mink .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-contented-males.htm
ANIMALS - Reminder: As days get colder animals are attracted to the warmth of cars...
Forward this public service announcement to your friends and family to remind them to be careful when they use their cars .. ...
ANIMALS - Study shows 'solar powered' sea slugs can survive long term in the dark
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from Germany and the Netherlands has found that at least two species of sea slug thought to be able to endure long periods of starvation by gleaning energy from the sun has found that the slugs can live for long periods of time without food and with or without sunlight. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the team describes experiments they conducted with the slugs ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-solar-powered-sea-slugs-survive
ANIMALS - Why Monkeys and Apes Have Colorful Faces
Species that live in larger social groups have complex, colorful facial patterns .. ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/why-monkeys-and-apes-have-
ART - How to Get Your Photo Printed on a Marshmallow
Boomf, a company based in London, makes marshmallows printed with Instagrams .. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/boomfs-instagram-marshmallo
BIRDS - City birds tougher than their country counterparts
Urban breeding birds appeared to cope better with the UK's cold, wet spring of 2012 than those living in woodland .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-city-birds-tougher-country-coun
CLIMATE - Glaciers sizzle as they disappear into warmer water
Scientists have recorded and identified one of the most prominent sounds of a warming planet: the sizzle of glacier ice as it melts into the sea. The noise, caused by trapped air bubbles squirting out of the disappearing ice, could provide clues to the rate of glacier melt and help researchers better monitor the fast-changing polar environments .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-glaciers-sizzle-warmer.htm
CLIMATE - We’re further off track than ever in limiting global warming
Ostensibly, the world's governments are spending two weeks in Poland working out a way to limit global warming to 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels. In reality, according to a new report, we're getting further off track. From Reuters:A Climate Action Tracker compiled by scientists said the world was headed for a temperature rise of 3.7 degrees Celsius (6.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times by 2100, against 3.1C (5.8F) if governments st ...
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/20/were_further_off_track_than_
EARTH - Ancient Siberian genome reveals genetic origins of Native Americans
The genome sequence of a 24,000-year-old Siberian individual has provided a key piece of the puzzle in the quest for Native American origins. The ancient Siberian demonstrates genomic signatures that are basal to present-day western Eurasians and close to modern Native Americans. This surprising finding has great consequences for our understanding of how and from where ancestral Native Americans descended, and also of the genetic landscape of Eurhttp://phys.org/news/2013-11-ancient-siberian-genome-reveals
ECONOMICS - World Bank says no money for nuclear power
The World Bank and United Nations on Wednesday appealed for billions of dollars to provide electricity for the poorest nations but said there would be no investment in nuclear power .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-world-bank-money-nuclear-power.
ENERGY - The World's Biggest Oil Companies
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GARDENS - Moving beyond agricultural pesticides
The smart use of fertilisers could help reduce global dependence on pesticides in agriculture, and slow the trend of pests developing resistance to the chemicals meant to control them, new research suggests .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-agricultural-pesticides.htm
GARDENS - Growing and cooking celery root
Fall is the time to clean up the garden’s debris, harvest storage crops and take stock of how things went. The record is never perfect, and gardeners will obsess about why a crop failed or never quite measured up. That can be instructive, but you learn much from your successes, too. Tip of the week Try to run gasoline lawn mowers dry before storing for the winter — shredding fallen leaves is a productive way to run out of fuel. Old gas can abso ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/growing-and-coo
HOMES - Photos: John F. Kennedy's Custom Home Listed for $11M
In the winter of 1963, John and Jacqueline Kennedy bought 39 acres in Middleburg, Va., while they owned a home in Hyannis, Mass. They finished their home in Oct. 1963 and dubbed it Wexford, after the Irish county where the Kennedys trace their roots. Three owners and 50 years later, the custom-built four-broom home is on sale for $10.995 millio .. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/slideshow/jfks-custom-va-home
HOMES - Aiming To Build An End-To-End Rental Ecosystem, Apartment List Raises $15M
One month after acquiring the apartment reviews site RentAdvisor, Apartment List has closed $15 million in Series A funding led by Matrix Partners. With this raise, the startup will be building out its product, engineering, and sales teams, as well as upping the reach and quality of its apartment profiles and reviews.These are small steps toward a much bigger goal. CEO John Kobs said that down the line, the aim is for Apartment List to become an ...
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/20/aiming-to-build-an-end-to-end-rental-ecosystem-apartment-list-raises-15m/
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PEOPLE - TIL that since the 11th century there have only been two cases of British royal marriages where the couple have been unrelated.
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PEOPLE - TIL there was a dutch man born in 1912, Mirin Dajo, who willingly had an actual sword thrust through his body multiple times without organ damage. He was taught this method by Indian mystics and performed it in public.
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PEOPLE - City Room: New York Today: Feeding Stomachs and Souls
What you need to know for Wednesday: a soup kitchen in high gear, lots of weather and a 3,000-pound gingerbread village .. ...
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/new-york-today-
SCIENCE - 'Electromagnon' effect couples electricity and magnetism in materials
Major industries such as modern microelectronics are based on the interaction between matter and electromagnetism. Electromagnetic signals can be processed and stored in specially tailored materials. In materials science, electric and magnetic effects have usually been studied separately. There are, however, extraordinary materials called "multiferroics", in which electric and magnetic excitations are closely linked. Scientists at the Vienna Univ ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-electromagnon-effect-couples-el
SCIENCE - Researchers discover roots of superfluorescent bursts from quantum wells
Spontaneous bursts of light from a solid block illuminate the unusual way interacting quantum particles behave when they are driven far from equilibrium. The discovery by Rice University scientists of a way to trigger these flashes may lead to new telecommunications equipment and other devices that transmit signals at picosecond speeds .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-roots-superfluorescent-quantum-
SCIENCE - Researchers find misfolded proteins are capable of forming tree-like aggregates
A method by Rice University researchers to model the way proteins fold – and sometimes misfold – has revealed branching behavior that may have implications for Alzheimer's and other aggregation diseases .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-misfolded-proteins-capable-tree
SCIENCE - Turning autism upside down: When symptoms are strengths
A novel approach to treating children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder could help them navigate their world by teaching them to turn their symptoms into strengths. A researcher has developed a treatment method that teaches affected children how to control their psychophysiology and behavior using computerized biofeedback and clinical hypnosis .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131125125532.ht
SCIENCE - Novel material stores unusually large amounts of hydrogen
Researchers has synthesized a new material that stores an unusually large amount of hydrogen. Performing high-pressure X-ray studies, the scientists detected the formation of previously unobserved iridium hydride at a pressure of 55 gigapascals, corresponding to approximately 550,000 times the Earth's atmospheric pressure. The new material can store up to three times more hydrogen than most other metal hydrides .. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131120100625.ht
SCIENCE - Science needs to be more dangerous
Few would argue the world isn't facing enormous challenges: human population growth and the associated demand for resources, mass extinctions or – perhaps the biggest of all – global climate change .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-science-dangerous.htm
SCIENCE - Scientists create perfect solution to iron out kinks in surfaces
A new technique that allows curved surfaces to appear flat to electromagnetic waves has been developed. The discovery could hail a step-change in how antennas are tailored to each platform, which could be useful to a number of industries that rely on high performance antennas for reliable and efficient wireless communications ..http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131120100627.ht
SPACE - Astronomers Discover the Most Massive Structure in the Universe
Astronomers have found a mind-bogglingly large structure in a remote part of the Universe — an expanse of space that's so big it takes light 10 billion years to traverse. Read more.. .. ...
SPACE - Comet ISON: An Observer's Guide
It may or may not become the 'Comet of the Century' but Comet ISON is certainly a delight to see in the night sky. Here's how you can see the icy visitor before it makes close approach with the sun .. ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/comet-ison-an-obse
SPACE - Dennis Tito: It will take “less than $1 billion” to make Mars mission happen
Billionaire (or at the very least, multimillionaire) Dennis Tito unveiled his official plans for a manned mission to Mars. As early as December 2017, Tito testified Wednesday at a hearing of the House subcommittee on space, America could be the first nation to send an astronaut couple to Mars...almost.Tito's calling the mission "Inspiration Mars," though a more technically precise name should perhaps be, "501 Days in a Spaceship." That's because ...
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/20/dennis_tito_it_will_take_les
SPACE - Unknown Bacteria Discovered in Two Spacecraft Clean Rooms
Scientists have discovered a microbe that – to their knowledge – can be found just two places on Earth. The first: a spacecraft clean room in Guiana. The second: a spacecraft clean room in Florida, some 2,500 miles away.
SPACE - From Mercury to Morocco, and onward to Yale: a meteorite’s tale
The largest piece of the only known meteorite from the planet Mercury is now on display at the Peabody Museum of Natural History .http://news.yale.edu/2013/11/25/mercury-morocco-and-onward-y
SPACE - Galactic clusters low on hydrogen
Astronomers at Swinburne University of Technology and their international collaborators have found evidence that galaxies that are located in groups might be running out of gashttp://phys.org/news/2013-11-galactic-clusters-hydrogen.htm
SPACE - Image: Space station deploys Cubesats
Three nanosatellites, known as Cubesats, are deployed from a Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (SSOD) attached to the Kibo laboratory's robotic arm .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-image-space-station-deploys-cub
SPACE - Sounding rocket to peek at atmosphere of Venus
A week after launching a new orbiter to investigate the upper atmosphere of Mars, NASA is sending a sounding rocket to probe the atmosphere of Venushttp://phys.org/news/2013-11-rocket-peek-atmosphere-venus.ht
SPACE - The long shot of life elsewhere
Recent research suggests that there may be as many as 40 billion habitable planets in our galaxy. A number that large has some scientists speculating that the universe might be teeming with lifehttp://phys.org/news/2013-11-shot-life.htm
SPACE - Video: Explaining Earth's magnetic field
An introduction to Earth's magnetic field: what it is, where it comes from and what it's used for .http://phys.org/news/2013-11-video-earth-magnetic-field.htm
SPACE - Who Owns Outer Space? [Video]
With the exception of international waters, unclaimed portions of Antarctica and a Hong Kong-sized parcel of land wedged between Egypt and Sudan, nearly every square inch of planet Earth has been claimed by a governing body. That leaves would-be colonists and conquerors with only one place to look: skyward.http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/11/25/
SPACE - Will the Sun Rip Off Comet ISON's Tail?
Comets that stray too close to the sun have a very uncertain future. Some live to tell the tale, while others literally lose their tailshttp://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/will-sun-rip-off-c
SPACE - A fiery drama of star birth and death
The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the closest galaxies to our own. Astronomers have now used the power of ESO's Very Large Telescope to explore one of its lesser known regions. This new image shows clouds of gas and dust where hot new stars are being born and are sculpting their surroundings into odd shapes. But the image also shows the effects of stellar death—filaments created by a supernova explosion .http://phys.org/news/2013-11-fiery-drama-star-birth-death.ht
SPACE - NASA launches exo-brake parachute from ISS
Mission controllers have confirmed that a small satellite launched from the International Space Station last week has successfully entered its orbit. Soon it will demonstrate two new technologies including an "exo-brake" device to demonstrate a new de-orbit technique as well as a communications system to provide precise information about the spacecraft's position ..http://phys.org/news/2013-11-nasa-exo-brake-parachute-iss.ht
TREES - Plant more native tress to increase rainfall in South West
Water research experts have called for urgent reforestation to mitigate climate change caused by the widespread land clearing which occurred in Western Australia up until the 1980shttp://phys.org/news/2013-11-native-tress-rainfall-south-wes
TREES - Single-stem blueberry "tree" may lower production costs
An Oregon State University researcher aims to lower production costs for growers by creating a new kind of blueberry that develops as a tree instead of the traditional bushhttp://phys.org/news/2013-11-single-stem-blueberry-tree-prod
WIND - Wind Picks Up as Coal Declines in the Midwest
At first glance, a new chart from the U.S. Energy Information Administration suggests that coal is not just king in the Midwest’s electricity mix, but still reigns with an iron grip. Look a little closer, however, and there is change in the works, as shown in a growing green strip on the top of the first graph. About a decade ago, coal supplied nearly 80 percent of electricity in the central United States. The figure is now dipping closer to 6.
WRITE - This Couple Found Out the Hard Way That Writing a Negative Online Review Could Land You a $3K Fine and Wrecked Credit Score
A Utah couple’s credit score has been wrecked because of a negative online review and some fine print.Jen Palmer’s husband in 2008 purchased several items from a website called Kleargear.com. However, after 30 days passed, the order never arrived and PayPal eventually canceled the transactiohttp://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/11/20/this-couple-found-ou
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