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• Scientists Single Out a Suspect in Starfish Carnage: Warming Oceans

  31 janvier, par KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS — Starfish, Viruses, Science Advances (Journal), Pacific Ocean, Global Warming, Environment, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Harvell, Drew
  A new study sheds light on a huge die-off of starfish along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska.
  

• How NASA’s Curiosity Rover Weighed a Mountain on Mars

  31 janvier, par KENNETH CHANG — Space and Astronomy, Curiosity (Mars Rover), Mars (Planet), Grotzinger, John P, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Science (Journal), Vasavada, Ashwin R, Lewis, Kevin W
  With a bit of technical improvisation, scientists worked out that the bedrock of Mount Sharp appeared to be less dense than had been expected.
  

• China’s Coal Plants Haven’t Cut Methane Emissions as Required, Study Finds

  31 janvier, par SOMINI SENGUPTA — China, Coal, Methane, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Nature Communications (Journal), Miller, Scot M
  China in 2010 promised to curb methane emissions. In the first five years, it failed to keep its promise, according to new research based on satellite data.
  

• Rubber and Wood in Chicken Nuggets: Why 120,000 Pounds Were Recalled

  31 janvier, par SANDRA E. GARCIA — Poultry, Food Contamination and Poisoning, Recalls and Bans of Products, Tyson Foods Inc, Perdue Farms Inc, Agriculture Department, Labeling and Labels (Product)
  Three separate recalls have been issued this month by Tyson Foods and Perdue. What’s happening to America’s chicken nuggets?
  

• Trilobites: Searching for the Genetic Underpinnings of Morning Persons and Night Owls

  31 janvier, par VERONIQUE GREENWOOD — Sleep, Genetics and Heredity, Biorhythms, Mental Health and Disorders, Nature Communications (Journal), Jones, Samuel E, Weedon, Michael, your-feed-science
  Researchers identified hundreds of gene variations that may be connected to when people go to bed.
  

• Opioid Lawsuits Are Headed to Trial. Here's Why the Stakes Are Getting Uglier.

  31 janvier, par JAN HOFFMAN — Suits and Litigation (Civil), Opioids and Opiates, Pain-Relieving Drugs, Drug Abuse and Traffic, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Polster, Dan Aaron, Ohio
  The judge presiding over all the federal cases had hoped to settle them by now. But the behemoth litigation is only becoming more bloated, contentious and difficult to resolve.
  

• This Is Your Brain Off Facebook

  31 janvier, par BENEDICT CAREY — Social Media, Computers and the Internet, Psychology and Psychologists, Politics and Government, Addiction (Psychology), Mental Health and Disorders, Facebook Inc, Stanford University
  Planning on quitting the social platform? A major new study offers a glimpse of what unplugging might do for your life. (Spoiler: It’s not so bad.)
  

• E-Cigarettes Are Effective at Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says

  31 janvier, par JAN HOFFMAN — E-Cigarettes, Smoking and Tobacco, Nicotine, Research, Medicine and Health, Clinical Trials, New England Journal of Medicine, Great Britain
  A yearlong, randomized trial in England showed that e-cigarettes were almost twice as successful as products like patches or gum for smoking cessation.
  

• He Swallowed a Toothpick. It Could Have Killed Him.

  30 janvier, par DENISE GRADY — Digestive Tract, Infections, Massachusetts General Hospital, New England Journal of Medicine, Toothpicks, Swallowing foreign objects, your-feed-science
  For several weeks, a young athlete’s symptoms stumped doctors, despite tests and scans. Unnoticed in a sandwich or wrap, toothpicks can do a surprising amount of damage in the digestive tract, and beyond.
  

• Matter: High Ceilings and a Lovely View: Denisova Cave Was Home to a Lost Branch of Humanity

  30 janvier, par CARL ZIMMER — Denisova Hominid, Denisova Cave (Siberia), Neanderthal Man, Archaeology and Anthropology, Fossils, Caves and Caverns, DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), Oxford University, Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Exeter, your-feed-science
  The mysterious Denisovans may have occupied a cave in what is now Siberia for more than 250,000 years.