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Anomalies and Alternative Science RSS FeedsAnother Iranian UFO Mystery - A radiant unidentified flying object was observed in the sky of Central Sepidar in the vicinity of Bouyer Ahmad in western Iran at 19:00 hours local time (15:30 GMT) Monday....Feed Source: www.feedcraft.com UFO Photographed Near Youngwood, Pennsylvania (photo) - The observation had taken place at 8:58 P.M., as indicated on the cell phone camera date display. The family had traveled a distance on a rural road outside of Youngwood, PA, when they observed a brilliant luminous object in the sky which appeared to be hovering or moving very slowly.... Bizarre Owl Rumor Has Indians Hunting For Mystery Buyer - A bizarre rumour in Jammu and Kashmir that an owl weighing over three kilograms can turn its owner into a millionaire has spread like wild fire in the rest of northern India.... Qigong: Mind Over Matter (article) - In the body, qi travels in pathways called meridians, and is stored in energy centres, some of which are the same as the chakras... Couple Ponder Over Digital Apparition (photo) - Ectoplasm? Ghost balls? The energy from a trapped spirit? Or is the strange floating orb Allan and Joyce Faust captured on their digital camera nothing more than a lens flare or a trick of light?... 10th Anniversary Of 'The Phoenix Lights' UFO Encounter Approaches (article) - In the early evening of March 13, 1997, a massive V-shaped, boomerang-shaped or triangle-shaped object with large lights on the underside of it was observed by thousands of people across Arizona and Phoenix. The object was reported to be one mile to two miles across in size.... This Week in Science - Spring Into Flower | Pull Me-No!-Push You | Subterranean Eruption Clues | Tiny Tinny Bumps | Majoranas Arrive | Growing in Liquid | Maximizing Molecular Pore Diameters | New Digs | Finessing Crystal Analysis | More Glycine, Please | Who's Who | Magnetic Sense | Human Argonaute Revealed... Editors' Choice - Chemistry: A Carbon Bond's Photo Finish | Geophysics: Yellowstone's Deep Roots | Plant Sciences: Shared Symbiotic Signaling | Biochemistry: Locked and Loaded | Cell Biology: Cell-Cell Fusion | Economics: No Simple Links | Chemistry: Switching Hands... Findings - Indelible Ink | Solid Advance for Solar Cells... [Editorial] Cultivating Global Science - Author: Subra Suresh... [News of the Week] Around the World - In science news around the world this week, a British team has canceled a geoengineering experiment, field biologists seeking research permits to work in the tiger reserves of Karnataka in southern India may be getting a reprieve, a project to drill into the heart of a "supervolcano" in southern Italy got the go-ahead, budget cuts are engulfing a unique research area in Ontario, an intruder was arrested at a GM field trial, and a prostate cancer ... [News of the Week] Random Sample - Questions surrounding the origin of a nearly complete skeletonofan Asian relative of Tyrannosaurus called Tarbosaurus, auctioned off on 20 May in New York City, touched off a protest by the Mongolian government. With funding from Arts Council England, the University of Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is delving into its collections to find new ways to describe complex migration and trading routes through Cambridgeshire, as well... [News of the Week] Newsmakers - This week's Newsmaker is electrical engineer L. Rafael Reif, who has been voted president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.... [News & Analysis] Archaeology: Dams Along Sudanese Nile Threaten Ancient Sites - Sudanese officials said last week that their government intends to move ahead with three massive dams along the Nile River and its tributaries, threatening hundreds of largely unexplored ancient sites.Author: Andrew Lawler... [News & Analysis] Immigration Reform: Senate Bills Would Make Room for More STEM Graduates - The U.S. Senate has waded into the debate over whether to permit more foreign-born scientists trained at U.S. universities to stay in the country.Author: Jeffrey Mervis... [News & Analysis] Science Funding: NSF's ?Big Pitch? Tests Anonymized Grant Reviews - An experiment being conducted at the U.S. National Science Foundation indicates that NSF may be turning down deserving research proposals because of potential biases in the grant-review process.Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee... [News & Analysis] Planetary Science: Homegrown Organic Matter Found on Mars, But No Life - Researchers have discovered organic matter encased in once-molten martian rocks, demonstrating that the planet has been producing its own organic matter for eons with no help from life.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [News & Analysis] Alternative Energy: Military's Plan to Buy Biofuels Hits Roadblock in U.S. House - The U.S. House of Representatives last week blocked the Department of Defense from buying more costly substitutes for petroleum-based fuels.Author: Robert F. Service... [News & Analysis] Psychology: NSF Gives Clinical Students a Shot At Winning Graduate Fellowships - The U.S. National Science Foundation has restored the funding eligibility of students in graduate psychology programs, allowing a doctoral student in psychology to win a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship.Author: Siri Carpenter... [News Focus] Evolutionary Biology: An Evolutionary Theory of Dentistry - Why are our teeth so rotten? Biologists point to a mismatch between our diets and lifestyles and those of our ancestors.Author: Ann Gibbons... [News Focus] Evolutionary Biology: The Burdens of Being a Biped - A number of musculoskeletal issues are rooted in our evolutionary history, in particular to the switch to walking upright more than 7 million years ago.Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [News Focus] The Biology of Genomes: Single-Cell Sequencing Tackles Basic and Biomedical Questions - At the meeting, four groups described new insights derived from sequencing DNA from individual human cells.... [News Focus] The Biology of Genomes: HDL Itself Does Not Prevent Heart Attacks - A new genetic analysis presented at the meeting shows that while high HDL might correlate with a healthier heart, it's not itself responsible for lowering heart attack risks.Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [Letter] Support for Greece - Author: Harald zur Hausen... [Letter] ?Two Heads Are Better? Stands to Reason - Authors: Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber... [Letter] Life in Science: The Noblest Lesson - Author: Rebecca Sinclair... [Book Review] Psychology: On Ruts and Getting Out of Them - Duhigg recounts engaging stories that illuminate how habits function and offer hope to those trying to change their behavior.Author: Wendy Wood... [Book Review] Exhibitions: Astronomy: Transit Reflections - The Royal Observatory marks the upcoming transit of Venus with a small exhibition on our efforts to grasp the vast distances of the universe.Author: Deborah Dixon... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 18 May 2012.... [Policy Forum] Science Policy: From ?Science in Europe? to ?European Science? - Early impacts of the European Research Council suggest shifts toward competition and excellence in EU-wide basic science.Authors: Maria Nedeva, Michael Stampfer... [Perspective] Development: Pushing Your Back into Place - Establishment of the dorsal-ventral body axis during fly oogenesis depends on pushing forces provided by polymerizing microtubules.Authors: Bruce Bowerman, Sean M. O'Rourke... [Perspective] Biochemistry: Guided Tour to the Heart of RISC - The crystal structures of human and yeast Argonaute proteins reveal the intricacies of the multidomain enzyme at the hub of the RNA interference machinery.Authors: Emine Kaya, Jennifer A. Doudna... [Perspective] Biochemistry: Resolving Some Old Problems in Protein Crystallography - Two methods improve the quality and ease of structural modeling by showing how to include diffraction data that are often thrown away.Author: Phil Evans... [Perspective] Psychology: Kinship and Human Thought - Language and communication are central to shaping concepts such as kinship categories.Author: Stephen C. Levinson... [Perspective] Physics: Enter the Majorana Fermion - Electrical measurements on a semiconductor?superconductor hybrid structure reveal the signature of this long-predicted exotic particle.Author: Piet W. Brouwer... [Perspective] Cancer: Systems Biology, Metabolomics, and Cancer Metabolism - Constructing metabolic profiles of 60 cancer cell lines by integrating metabolomics and systems biology revealed increased glycine consumption in highly proliferative cancer cells.Authors: Masaru Tomita, Kenjiro Kami... [Perspective] Physiology: An Avian Magnetometer - Neurons in the pigeon brain encode information on Earth's magnetic field for orientation and navigation.Author: Michael Winklhofer... [Essay] IBI* Series Winner: Learning Biology by Recreating and Extending Mathematical Models - Dynamics of Biological Systems, the IBI Prize?winning module, brings mathematics into the biology laboratory.Authors: Hillel J. Chiel, Jeffrey P. Gill, Jeffrey M. McManus, Kendrick M. Shaw... [Brevia] Predicting Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Games - A Bayesian inference model predicts how listeners decode communications.Authors: Michael C. Frank, Noah D. Goodman... [Research Article] Growing Microtubules Push the Oocyte Nucleus to Polarize the Drosophila Dorsal-Ventral Axis - The addition of tubulin monomers to microtubules provides the force to relocate the oocyte nucleus.Authors: Tongtong Zhao, Owen S. Graham, Alexandre Raposo, Daniel St Johnston... [Report] Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices - Theoretically predicted particles that double as their own antiparticles emerge in a superconductor-coupled indium antimonide nanowire.Authors: V. Mourik, K. Zuo, S. M. Frolov, S. R. Plissard, E. P. A. M. Bakkers, L. P. Kouwenhoven... [Report] Unidirectional Growth of Microbumps on (111)-Oriented and Nanotwinned Copper - Oriented copper grains grown using direct-current electroplating serve as a template for intermetallic microbumps.Authors: Hsiang-Yao Hsiao, Chien-Min Liu, Han-wen Lin, Tao-Chi Liu, Chia-Ling Lu, Yi-Sa Huang, Chih Chen, K. N. Tu... [Report] Real-Time Imaging of Pt3Fe Nanorod Growth in Solution - An in situ liquid stage is used to study the formation of nanowires from solution in a transmission electron microscope.Authors: Hong-Gang Liao, Likun Cui, Stephen Whitelam, Haimei Zheng... [Report] Direction-Specific Interactions Control Crystal Growth by Oriented Attachment - Iron oxyhydroxide nanoparticles rotate until finding a perfect lattice match with a neighboring particle to grow.Authors: Dongsheng Li, Michael H. Nielsen, Jonathan R. I. Lee, Cathrine Frandsen, Jillian F. Banfield, James J. De Yoreo... [Report] Large-Pore Apertures in a Series of Metal-Organic Frameworks - Metal-organic frameworks with hexagonal channel pores up to almost 100 angstroms in diameter have been synthesized.Authors: Hexiang Deng, Sergio Grunder, Kyle E. Cordova, Cory Valente, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Mohamad Hmadeh, Felipe Gándara, Adam C. Whalley, Zheng Liu, Shunsuke Asahina, Hiroyoshi Kazumori, Michael O?Keeffe, Osamu Terasaki, J. Fraser Stoddart, Omar M. Yaghi... [Report] Linking Petrology and Seismology at an Active Volcano - Volcanic minerals from a Mount St. Helens eruption reveal a causal relationship between magma processes and seismicity.Authors: Kate Saunders, Jon Blundy, Ralf Dohmen, Kathy Cashman... [Report] Temperature-Dependent Alterations in Host Use Drive Rapid Range Expansion in a Butterfly - A warmer UK has enabled the brown argus butterfly to expand its range by feasting on the geranium.Authors: Rachel M. Pateman, Jane K. Hill, David B. Roy, Richard Fox, Chris D. Thomas... [Report] Linking Crystallographic Model and Data Quality - A statistical method places model and data quality on the same scale and indicates how far one can model.Authors: P. Andrew Karplus, Kay Diederichs... [Report] Structures from Anomalous Diffraction of Native Biological Macromolecules - Don?t get MAD or be SAD; try lower energy.Authors: Qun Liu, Tassadite Dahmane, Zhen Zhang, Zahra Assur, Julia Brasch, Lawrence Shapiro, Filippo Mancia, Wayne A. Hendrickson... [Report] The Crystal Structure of Human Argonaute2 - The structure of the core protein of the human RNA interference machinery is determined at high resolution.Authors: Nicole T. Schirle, Ian J. MacRae... [Report] Metabolite Profiling Identifies a Key Role for Glycine in Rapid Cancer Cell Proliferation - Rapidly growing cancer cells rely on the amino acid glycine to make nucleotides.Authors: Mohit Jain, Roland Nilsson, Sonia Sharma, Nikhil Madhusudhan, Toshimori Kitami, Amanda L. Souza, Ran Kafri, Marc W. Kirschner, Clary B. Clish, Vamsi K. Mootha... [Report] FKF1 Conveys Timing Information for CONSTANS Stabilization in Photoperiodic Flowering - A plant protein sensitive to blue light links longer afternoons to more flowering.Authors: Young Hun Song, Robert W. Smith, Benjamin J. To, Andrew J. Millar, Takato Imaizumi... [Report] Kinship Categories Across Languages Reflect General Communicative Principles - The systems of terms used in different languages to describe kin are optimized for simplicity and informativeness.Authors: Charles Kemp, Terry Regier... [Report] Neural Correlates of a Magnetic Sense - Neurons in a pigeon?s brain encode the direction and intensity of the geomagnetic field.Authors: Le-Qing Wu, J. David Dickman... New Products - A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.... [Podcast] Science Podcast - The show includes classifying cousins, the evolution of bad teeth, where science and comedy meet, and more.... 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