{"id":2625,"date":"2012-12-09T13:55:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T18:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/synapse\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2013-03-05T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:50:00","slug":"this-week-in-science-news-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/synapse\/2012\/12\/09\/this-week-in-science-news-8\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Science News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"intro\">Headlines from 12\/2 &#8211; 12\/8<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">Article by Synapse<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/synapse\/files\/2012\/04\/Synapse-News-Thumbnail-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/synapse\/files\/2012\/04\/Synapse-News-Thumbnail-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Synapse-News-Thumbnail-150x150\" title=\"Synapse-News-Thumbnail-150x150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Check out some of this week&#8217;s important and interesting headlines from the world of science.<\/h3>\n<h3>12\/02\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.natureworldnews.com\/articles\/344\/20121202\/growth-rings-reveal-age-lobsters-experts.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Growth Rings Can Reveal Age of Lobsters<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>12\/03\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/msl\/news\/msl20121203.html\" target=\"_blank\">Curiosity\u00a0Analyses\u00a0First Soil Sample<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>12\/04\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-20594147\" target=\"_blank\">Contender Oldest for Oldest Dinosaur<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>12\/04 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/graphene-towers-promise-flexi-electronics-1.11930\" target=\"_blank\">Elastic\u00a0Graphene Tower is Super Strong<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>12\/05\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/city-birds-use-cigarette-butts-to-smoke-out-parasites-1.11952\" target=\"_blank\">City Birds Use\u00a0Cigarettes\u00a0to Fight\u00a0Parasites<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/24\/dogs-yawning-yawns-puppies-study_n_2008639.html?ir=Green\" title=\"Dog Yawning is Learned as Puppies Grow Older\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>12\/05\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/11\/science\/parasites-use-sophisticated-biochemistry-to-take-over-their-hosts.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Parasites Use Biochemsitry to Take Over Spider Host<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>12\/07\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/2012\/dec\/07\/laser-pulse-makes-insulator-conduct-like-a-metal#.UMSnqkCIcbs.reddit\" target=\"_blank\">Laser Pulse Makes Insulator Conduct Like Metal<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>12\/07\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2012-12-oxygen-nucleus-neutrons-shown-surprisingly.html\" target=\"_blank\">Oxygen Isotope With 16 Neutrons Found to be Stable<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:150%;line-height:50%\">Article by Synapse<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:150%\">Headlines from 12\/02 &#8211; 12\/08.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37075,36994],"tags":[37174,168,37167,37166,37170,37168,37063,37164,37175,37171,37165,37173,37065,37172,37160,37162,37064,37163,37169,37161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/synapse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/synapse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/synapse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/synapse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/synapse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/synapse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/synapse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/synapse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/synapse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/synapse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}