Findingstag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2008-09-30:/newsblog//42009-02-16T15:27:38ZThe *Science* Magazine News BlogMovable Type Open Source 4.1How Weiner Dogs Got Their Funny Legstag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.30032009-02-16T15:13:21Z2009-02-16T15:27:38Z The Scottish terrier that was a finalist at the Westminster Dog Show last week is a mutant. And she's not alone. With their stubby legs and long bodies, Scottish terriers, Bassett hounds, and dachshunds have been purposely bred by...David GrimmPodcast: Nanotech in Foodtag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.30072009-02-16T15:00:59Z2009-02-17T16:39:31ZErik StokstadMalaria Forecast Varies by Temperaturetag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.30012009-02-16T01:09:00Z2009-02-16T05:18:24ZMalaria grips many of the impoverished regions throughout the world, killing between 700,000 and 2.7 million people each year. And as Earth warms, researchers only expect the problem to get worse. But at a symposium here yesterday, entomologist Matthew Thomas...David GrimmPodcast: The Origins of Emotionstag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.30022009-02-16T01:00:12Z2009-02-17T17:52:01ZDavid GrimmA Hair-Raising Experience at Family Science Daystag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.30002009-02-16T00:46:57Z2009-02-16T16:05:50ZAs a crowd of kids lean in to look, intrepid Julia Rademacher Wedd, 7 years old, steps onto a low plastic stool and places her hand on a contraption that resembles a large steel mushroom. Then, a switch is flipped,...David GrimmNasty, Brutish, and Short? Neandertals Died Youngtag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.29992009-02-16T00:44:25Z2009-02-16T05:03:49ZPeople today can live long enough for three and sometimes even four generations to interact. But did Neandertals know their grandparents? At a symposium Friday, Rachel Caspari of Central Michigan University argued that the answer is no. Caspari analyzed a...Erik StokstadSneak Preview: Dancing Sciencetag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.29972009-02-16T00:07:54Z2009-02-16T00:34:01ZWhat would the replication of DNA look like as a dance? How about the neural mechanisms of language processing? An audience was treated to exactly this on Friday night at the debut performance of THIS IS SCIENCE, the culmination of...David GrimmPodcast: An Update on the Meeting So Fartag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.29962009-02-15T23:17:19Z2009-02-15T23:58:13ZDavid GrimmWhat Have We Learned From the Wenchuan Quake?tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.29952009-02-15T23:05:35Z2009-02-16T00:10:30ZEmotions were mixed as Chinese and U.S. scientists mounted the stage today for "Disaster Scene Investigation: Lessons of the Wenchuan Earthquake." On 12 May 2008, a magnitude-7.9 quake leveled 5.5 million homes and killed 70,000 people in western China. The...David GrimmX-rays Allow Scientists to Peer Into the Pasttag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.29942009-02-15T22:21:50Z2009-02-16T00:17:23ZThanks to a particle accelerator the size of a football field, paleontologist Paul Tafforeau of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, was able to touch a 100-million-year-old wasp. It wasn't a real bug, but a larger-than-life plastic...David GrimmHow Many Endangered Species Won't Recover?tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.29932009-02-15T20:38:10Z2009-02-16T00:23:02ZIn the last 30 years, only the bald eagle and a handful of other species have recovered enough to be taken off the federal government's list of threatened and endangered species. Others, like the California condor (left), require constant help...Erik StokstadA Matter of Tastetag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.29912009-02-15T16:54:25Z2009-02-16T00:31:28ZHang out with people who study human diet long enough, and eventually you'll be asked to lick a strip of paper. That's what happened to me on Friday, when I joined the speakers from The Evolution of Human Diets session...David GrimmPodcast: The Science of Kissingtag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.29902009-02-15T04:34:43Z2009-02-16T00:35:51ZDavid GrimmSponging Away Antibiotic Resistancetag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.29892009-02-15T01:02:52Z2009-02-16T00:42:56Z Compounds derived from a marine sponge can thwart the defenses of a broad range of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a researcher reported here yesterday. The chemicals, which are nontoxic, somehow break down tough agglomerations of bacteria, called biofilms, which leaves the...David GrimmClimate Change Worst-Case Scenarios: Not Worst Enoughtag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/newsblog//4.29882009-02-15T00:52:44Z2009-02-16T00:50:32Z The news on climate change seemed bad enough in 2007, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced in their fourth assessment report that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal," that humans were "very likely" to blame,...David Grimm