Summaries of this week's top stories, from Science Magazine
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January 24, 2013 - 3:30pm
A distant nebula bears a startling resemblance to Earth's humble manatee, researchers report an "increased sense of well-being" in Magh Mela festival attendees, this week's numbers report a record low number of global guinea worm cases, and join us for a live chat on the science of gun violence.
January 24, 2013 - 3:30pm
The administration moves to get a better understanding of the root causes of gun violence, declaring the roughly 30,000 firearm-related homicides and suicides each year "a public health crisis."
Author: Emily Underwood
January 24, 2013 - 3:30pm
A new study finds that soot is warming the climate about twice as fast as scientists had estimated.
Author: Richard A. Kerr
January 24, 2013 - 3:30pm
A new plan to allow users to create their own university rankings using criteria on dozens of provided measures is having trouble attracting universities and fans.
Author: Tania Rabesandratana
January 24, 2013 - 3:30pm
The Chinese government is curtailing the ability of foreign researchers to conduct fieldwork in China.
Author: Mara Hvistendahl
January 24, 2013 - 3:30pm
Two journal editors take a hard look at honesty in science and question the ethos of their profession.
Author: Jennifer Couzin-Frankel
January 24, 2013 - 3:30pm
How did tetrapods swallow food after their transition from sea to land?
Author: Elizabeth Pennisi
January 24, 2013 - 3:30pm
A newly sequenced genome of a comb jelly threatens to upend the view that the neuron evolved only once in the history of life.
Author: Elizabeth Pennisi
January 24, 2013 - 3:30pm
Researchers wonder how moths were able to follow a flower in dim light and how coralline algae survive an aquatic battering.
Author: Elizabeth Pennisi
