Last Week In Science
1. New browser plug-in lets you access millions of scientific papers for free and legally!
2. After millions of years, Earth passed the 410ppm CO2 threshold again
2.1 At the same time, entire rivers disappear because of retreating glaciers
3. We marched for SCIENCE!! (here’s my face and a dumb sign I made)
4. Another asteroid flew by at about 1 million miles away
4.1 In similar news: The Lyrid meteor shower peaked over the weekend
5. We just keep finding more and more potentially habitable exoplanets
6. The LHC found some shiny new particles, maybe
7. We find out that aliens are probably not trying to communicate with lasers
8. Pigeons, among a few other species, build knowledge across generations
9. Spider feet up close are kind of cute
10. Human umbilical cord proteins revitalize aged brains in mice
11. Here’s what will happen to Earth and the Universe in the next 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 years
12. This 5-foot-long ship worm has a stinky story of evolution
13. Unpublished, 40-year-old study shows that Saturated Fats are not evil (also shows the importance of publishing undesired results because that’s how science works, and is how this myth was perpetuated in the first place. /rant)
14. This bone-protein could treat Diabesity
15. Behold! Triboluminescence (because breaking chemical bonds with a blender is fun)
16. For your weekly dose of pseudoscience bull-shit: Crazy antivaxers are saying vaccines cause dog-autism