{"id":875,"date":"2007-11-07T17:42:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/07\/interesting-science-news\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T17:42:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T17:42:23","slug":"interesting-science-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/interesting-science-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Science News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been driving all day and I&#8217;ll be teaching all night.  I so wish I could write about each of the following very interesting stories:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news113671556.html\">Key to False Memories Uncovered<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>Duke University Medical Center neuroscientists say the places a memory is processed in the brain may determine how someone can be absolutely certain of a past event that never occurred.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news113671556.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news113666734.html\">PCs Could Run Multiple Operating Systems<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>(AP) &#8212;  Tired of Windows? The next generation of laptops may let you jump from one operating system to another to play movies, surf the Web or read e-mail.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news113666734.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>(Note:  You can do this now with a multi-boot system.  But why not just run one good OS, like, say, LInux?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news113666170.html\">Kitten-cuddling mice explain the science of smell<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>Japanese scientists have created genetically-modified mice that, shorn of their ability to sense dangerous smells, will even snuggle up to a kitten, according to a study released on Wednesday by the journal <i>Nature<\/i>.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news113666170.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news113664580.html\">Direct gaze makes you more attractive<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>Looking directly at someone makes you more attractive to them according to research published in the <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/i>, today (Wednesday 7 November, 2007).[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news113664580.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This one, I will absolutely return to at a later time:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news113637087.html\">When animals evolve on islands, size doesn&#8217;t matter<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>A theory explaining the evolution of giant rodents, miniature elephants, and even miniature humans on islands has been called into questions by new research published today in <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/i>.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news113637087.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been driving all day and I&#8217;ll be teaching all night. I so wish I could write about each of the following very interesting stories: Key to False Memories Uncovered from PhysOrg.com Duke University Medical Center neuroscientists say the places a memory is processed in the brain may determine how someone can be absolutely certain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/interesting-science-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting Science News<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-e7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}