Friday, November 1, 2013

World Science: Love your enemy? Hormone spray might help with that, too

* Love your enemy? Hormone spray might help 
with that, too
:
Inhaling the hormone oxytocin may make people
empathize more with outsiders, a study suggests.

http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/131010_oxytocin.htm


* Mystery world baffles astronomers:
Earth-like in size, the planet Kepler-78b is where
no planet should be, scientists say.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131030_Kepler78b.htm


* Marmoset monkeys chat politely, scientists say:
Marmoset monkeys take turns when they vocalize,
engaging each other that way for up to 30 minutes, a
study finds.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131018_conversation.htm


* Findings could simplify human lineage:
Several ancestral forms of humans were really one
species, not separate ones as previously thought,
according to new research.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131016_H-erectus.htm


* Sahara pebble said to come from comet:
Scientists have reported what they call the first
direct evidence of a comet having entered the sky
and exploded.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131011_comet.htm


* Elephants get pointing, with no help, study 
finds
:
Elephants spontaneously get the gist of human
pointing and can use it as a cue for finding food,
researchers report.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131010_pointing.htm


* "Free-floating planet" photographed for 
1st time
:
But other new findings are also blurring the
boundaries between such planets, and stars.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131009_FreeFloating.htm


ADDITIONAL NEWS

* Honesty gets harder as day wears on, 
researchers find
:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131030_morality.htm


* Brain cells for snake-spotting found?:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131027_snake.htm


* Better gifts, better sex for spiders:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131027_spider.htm


* Why hazing? Anthropologist investigates:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131024_hazing.htm


* Childhood poverty, stress may affect brain in 
adulthood
:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131022_poverty.htm


* Human relationship to Neanderthals remains 
murky
:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131021_neanderthal.htm


* Low-voiced men love 'em and leave 'em, yet still 
attract more women: study
:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131016_pitch.htm


* Lightning helps shape mountains, study finds:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131014_lightning.htm


* Royal-sounding last name could aid your career:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131014_Kaiser.htm


* Meerkat moms kill rivals' pups -- and get 
rewarded for it
:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131007_meerkat.htm


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