Archive of articles published on the 18th of December 2013

Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab
Never forget a face
Radioactivity muddles the alphabet of DNA
A roly-poly pika gathers much moss
Massive stars mark out Milky Way's 'missing' arms
Oil- and metal-munching microbes dominate deep sandstone formations
New actors in the Arctic ecosystem
Scientists solve a decades-old mystery in the Earth's upper atmosphere
Neanderthal genome shows early human interbreeding, inbreeding
Powerful ancient explosions explain new class of supernovae
Muscle-invasive and non-muscle invasive bladder cancers arise from different stem cells
Scientists reduce protein crystal damage, improve pharmaceutical development
UTHealth program results in happier patients, lower costs in esophageal surgery
Heart disease linked with dementia in older postmenopausal women