Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities links

1. What did Australopithecines sound like?
2. 'Twine' lets everyday objects speak to us
3. Stonehenge reveals new clues of ancient worship
4. 'Language gene' may influence learning too
5. To self-diagnose, spit on iPhone
6. Squidbot could limbo into dangerous places
7. Electronic contact lens displays pixels on eyes
8. Alzheimer's damage reversed by deep brain stimulation
9. Neutrinos and multiverses: a new cosmology beckons
10. One of the universe's fiercest black holes is hiding inside this galaxy
11. The world's oldest known heliocentric model is completely backwards
12. Why does going somewhere take longer than coming back
13. Why sleeping on a problem is best

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities links

1. Bionic contact lens 'to project emails before eyes'
2. Faster-than-light neutrino results queried
3. 15 infant dinosaurs discovered in crowded nest
4. First teeth grew outside the body
5. Climate may have doomed Neandertals
6. Walking through doorways make you forget
7. Insect cyborgs may be the first responders: search and monitor hazardous place
8. Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robotics: Adaptable decision-making found in bacteria communities
9. Ancient skull found in China may be oldest evidence of violence between humans
10. Discovery of a new muscle repair gene
11. Key to aging? Key molecular switch for telomere extension by telomerase identified
12. Psychopaths' brains show differences in structure and function
13. Key gene function against cell death discovered

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

1. Mimicking the brain -- in silicon: new computer chip models how neurons communicate
2. Fossilized skin reveals ancient predator's sharklike move
3. Toyota introduces robots that helps patients walk again
4. Hubble discovers tiny galaxies bursting with starbirth in early universe
5. A rare survivor from the birth of Earth
6. A realistic look at the promises and perils of nanomedicine
7. New "smart" material could help tap medical potential of tissue-penetrating light
8. Archeologists discover huge ancient Greek commercial area on island of Sicily
9. Why your hips don't lie
10. Reading the brain: Mind-boggling
11. Real-Life Inception: Army looks to 'counteract nightmares' with digital dreams
12. Antarctica's "Ghost" Mountains Explained
13. "Great Lakes" discovered on Jupiter Moon?

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

1. Water shifting to a new kind of liquid
2. What the brain sees when the eye looks away
3. Which way you lean (physically) affects your decision making
4. We all experience fantasy differently
5. Brain parasite directly alters brain chemistry
6. Re-programmable cells could be key to creating new life forms
7. Cyborgs may be sci-fi but brain-computer interfacing is real
8. New procedure to turn brown eyes blue
9. Skin sees sunlight to trigger tanning
10. Periodic table adds three new elements
11. 66 leg predator roamed ancient BC sea floor
12. First brain image of a dream created
13. Humans' entry into Europe pushed earlier

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

1. E-readers get heavier with each book
2. One step closer to the borg
3. Stretchy solar cells make self-powering 'skin'
4. Mind-reading devices help the speechless speak
5. Brain scans reveal lucid dreaming's sleep cinema
6. Smart chimp gets speech like a human
7. First known Europeans identified
8. Cancer found in 2,000 year old mummy
9. Blood from a stone? No. Blood from a rice? Sure.
10. Eyes are the window to the soul; skin is a window to the brain
11. Vampire-like predatory bacteria could become a living antibiotic
12. Your brain knows a lot more than you realize
13. NASA to develop dust grabbing tractor beams for future missions

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

1. Couple held hands for 1500 years
2. Why spiders will always find you
3. The language fossils buried in every cell of your body
4. A fold in the brain is linked to keeping reality and imagination separate
5. Human brains are made of the same stuff, despite DNA differences
6. Birthplace for primitive life on Earth?
7. Computer scientist cracks mysterious "Copiale Cipher"
8. The modern human coordination miracle
9. Astronomers capture image of planet being born
10. Facebook may be changing our brains
11. Teeth shows big dinosaurs trekked for food
12. Dark matter gets darker
13. Telescope solve 2,000 year old stellar mystery

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

1. Nanotube yarn twists like muscles
2. Ancient "paint factory" unearthed
3. Military seeks sensor to gauge brain's reaction to stories
4. Cyclops shark appears legit
5. Hidden Antarctic lake may host mystery life
6. Psychopaths revealed by computer analysis
7. Computing building blocks created from bacteria and DNA
8. Forgetting is part of remembering
9. Dark matter mystery deepens
10. Robotic bug gets wings, sheds light on evolution of flight
11. Archaeologists find "blade production lines" existed as much as 400,000 years ago
12. Protecting the brain when energy runs low
13. Scientists reveal surprising picture of how powerful antibody neutralizes HIV

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

1. Prehistoric dog found with mammoth bone in its mouth
2. Meet LUCA (last universal common ancestor)
3. Time capsule housed 114 year old human bacteria
4. Smell-o-vision
5. Another reason to eat more chocolate
6. Alzheimer's: can you catch it?
7. Please welcome Megavirus, the world's ginormous virus
8. Dawn of the biohackers
9. British scientists hope to discover Earth's secrets in ancient Antarctic lake
10. The way you hold your drink reveals key personality traits
11. Lair of ancient 'kraken' sea monster possibly discovered
12. The nanotechnology of Sundew and English Ivy
13. Dead sea scrolls get new life online

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

1. How the brain makes memories
2. Alarm clock gene explained
3. Humans are still evolving
4. Miracle fruit secret revealed
5. Humans reach Asia in two waves
6. Finger drawing from a Prehistoric preschool
7. Breakthrough brain study reveals stress code
8. How viruses find their way into the cell nucleus
9. How brain reacts to mistakes depends on mindset
10. Humans and sharks share immune system feature
11. Tool using fish caught on camera
12. Sea-dragon discoveries Q&A
13. Dead sea not quite dead yet

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

1. Mind-reading research: the major breakthroughs
2. Spontaneous Human Combustion: how might it occur?
3. Florescing bacteria used to encode secret messages
4. New species of genuflecting plant buries its own seeds
5. 'Antimagnet' joins list of invisibility approaches
6. Resurrected ancient protein is a potent antibiotic
7. Your brain's family album, from hydra to human
8. Brain needs serotonin to restrain aggression
9. Habits form when brains slow down
10. Double whammy gene therapy clears HIV from body
11. How smells rules your life
12. Small lizard solves a problem its never seen before
13. Young bonobo show signs of autism

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

1. Revealed, Irelands real life zombie scare: Eighth century skeletons buried with stones in mouths
2. Video gamers solve microbiology puzzle
3. The end of "archaic" H. sapiens
4. New gene sequencing technique opens doors for studying elusive bacteria
5. Genetic defect that leaves some without fingerprints
6. Continents influenced ancient human migration, spread of technology
7. New techniques fill in gaps of fossil record
8. What will the next influenza pandemic look like?
9. Shark molecules kill human viruses, too
10. Tiniest baby dinosaur discovered
11. Deep sea can put global warming on temporary hiatus
12. Our universe may be a multiverse
13. Dino-killing impact wiped out many ancient birds too

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

I'm going to do something a bit different. I've always liked Thursday 13, but I thought I would use it as an opportunity to cross-link the round up of science/humanities articles that I've found particularly interesting around the net this week.

1. Man's Immune System Trained to Kill Cancer
2. Fossils Revise Human Evolution Theories
3. Hair Chemistry Could Help Solve Cold Cases
4. New Emotion Detector can See When We're Lying
5. Egypt's Ancient Fleet: Lost for Thousands of Years, Found in Desolate Cave
6. Enzyme Might be Target for Treating Smoking and Alcoholism
7. Sea Urchins See with their Whole Body
8. Powered by Seaweed, Polymer from Algae may Improve Battery Performance
9. Blood Vessels from Your Printer?
10. New Species of Ancient Predatory Fish Discovered
11. Can Scientists Look at Next Year's Climate?
12. The Lost Plague: London's Graveyards Suggest that Black Death Strain May be Extinct
13. Bacteria Use Electric Wires to Uranium out of Groundwater