Issue for the week of February 9th, 2013

Wild chimpanzees pick up ant-fishing behavior from a female immigrant. (p. 20)

Too much time spent indoors may be behind a surge in nearsightedness. (p. 22)

Proteins without a definite shape can still take on important jobs. (p. 26)

Astronomers show how bodies orbiting distant Jupiters could be habitable. (p. 5)

Crew on simulated Mars trip moved less and slept more during 520-day project. (p. 8)

Loud noises can damage sensitive inner ear cells called hair cells, which in mammals don?t grow back. (p. 8)

Disease genes associated with reduced volume in certain regions at birth. (p. 9)

Newborns show signs of having tracked moms? speech while still in the womb. (p. 9)

A controversial new study claims that time can be measured by precisely determining a single particle's heft. (p. 10)

Ultracold gas sets record on the kelvin scale. (p. 10)

Finger and toe wrinkling may have evolved as an adaptation to wet conditions. (p. 11)

Adding a genetic analysis to the procedure reveals mutations specific to the two malignancies. (p. 12)

Some patients getting an experimental vaccine therapy developed immunity. (p. 12)

Lab studies could explain how a seemingly stable geologic fault can fail. (p. 13)

Previously sculpted landscapes accumulate ice more quickly than steep valleys. (p. 13)

Forty vie for top awards in 2013 Intel Science Talent Search. (p. 14)

A report that chimps divvy up rewards much as people do draws criticism. (p. 16)

Warming waters have little effect on reef-building organisms that activate adaptive genes before the temperature starts to rise. (p. 16)

Male blackbirds exposed to nocturnal illumination are ready to mate sooner in spring. (p. 17)

The hormonal roller coaster that is male pipefish pregancy and collision safety features for flying insects. (p. 17)

In three women, damage to basolateral amygdala prompted unusual generosity. (p. 18)

Mice ingesting the compound tributyltin pass effects to grandchildren. (p. 18)

A study published in 2011 in Nature found that stem cells produced by reprogramming mouse skin cells get attacked when transplanted back into mice. (p. 18)

Genetic evidence suggests some people migrated from India to Australia roughly 4,300 years ago. (p. 18)

Genes may help determine why some mice (and perhaps people) become obese when eating a sugar- and fat-laden diet. (p. 18)

Genetic analysis indicates Stone Age people mated infrequently with Neandertals and other close relatives. (p. 18)

New fossils enter the debate over tiny humanlike species that lived in Indonesia. (p. 18)

Cooler periods coincided with conflicts and disease outbreaks, a tree-ring study spanning the last millennium finds. (p. 18)

Review by Nathan Seppa (p. 30)

Review by Allison Bohac (p. 30)

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Tackling women?s pro football. (p. 32)

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/issue/id/347804/title/Issue_for_the_week_of_February_9th_2013

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