News Briefs 25-01-2013

"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."

• Chameleon-like pulsar leaves more questions than answers.
• Sun’s magnetic braids, illuminated.
• Binary star’s double life, exposed.
• The robot hedgehogs of Phobos.
• Andes glaciers melting at fastest rate in 300 years.
• At the precipice of quantum gravity.
• By the dung’s early light.
• New fossil may recast bird evolution.
• Step onto the floor of the future.
• No room for new memories?
• Evidence of the looming antibiotic apocalypse?
• SuperTIGER sets new record.
• Japanese lab grows kidney tissue from stem cell.
• Terrestrial landscapes from above.
• Are we hastening the next great extinction?
• Antarctica and Greenland determine level of rising seas.
• A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... gets ‘Lost’.
• Garden grows after watering… 53 years ago.
• True value of fruits and vegetables, revealed.
• Re-firing the Saturn V.
• This week’s evidence of the looming robo-pocalypse… Chainsaw ‘bot.

Quote of the Day:

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

A. Schopenhauer