* 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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