a bit of science http://abitofscience.com/ en-us Top science news story of the day selected by a computer algo This 3D Picture Was Created Without a Camera Imagine taking a picture, without a camera. If that sound ridiculous, it's because it is—but it's also exactly what a team of researchers from the University of Glasgow, UK, have been doing.Read ... http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/292590/ Fri, 17 May 2013 14:01:03 EST http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/292590/ Google and NASA form quantum alliance Google has just announced that it's teaming up with none other than NASA for a three-way launch of a new quantum supercomputer lab.Google says that it sees quantum computing offering a lot of ... http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/292302/ Thu, 16 May 2013 14:01:03 EST http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/292302/ NASA's Kepler planet hunter appears broken Washington (AFP) May 15, 2013 NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft appears to be hobbled by a faulty wheel and may be near the end of its four-year mission, space agency scientists said ... http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/292047/ Wed, 15 May 2013 18:01:03 EST http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/292047/ Scientists discover oldest evidence of split between Old World monkeys and apes: Primate fossils are 25 million years old Two fossil discoveries from the East African Rift reveal new information about the evolution of primates, according to a new study. http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/291831/ Wed, 15 May 2013 14:01:03 EST http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/291831/ DNA analysis unearths origins of Minoans, the first major European civilization http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/291108/ Wed, 15 May 2013 12:01:03 EST http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/291108/ New method of finding planets scores its first discovery Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial ... http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/290565/ Tue, 14 May 2013 08:01:02 EST http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/290565/ NASA's STEREO detects a CME from the sun On 5:24 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can ... http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/290301/ Mon, 13 May 2013 14:01:03 EST http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/290301/ New Infrared-UV Laser Method to Accurately Determine Structure of Proteins 3D structures of biological molecules like proteins directly affect the way they behave in our bodies. EPFL scientists have developed a new infrared-UV laser method to more accurately determine ... http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/290217/ Mon, 13 May 2013 08:01:03 EST http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/290217/ Invasion of the slugs — halted by worms The gardener’s best friend, the earthworm, is great at protecting leaves from being chomped by slugs, suggests research in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Ecology. Although ... http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/290148/ Sun, 12 May 2013 22:01:02 EST http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/290148/ Research on cilia heats up: Implications for hearing, vision loss and kidney disease Experiments have unearthed clues about which protein signaling molecules are allowed into hollow, hair-like "antennae," called cilia, that alert cells to critical changes in their environments. http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/290094/ Sun, 12 May 2013 18:01:03 EST http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/290094/