Archive of articles published on the 4th of December 2014

Another case against the midnight snack
Atomic-level view provides new insight into translation of touch into nerve signals
Dirt provides new insight into Roman burials
Technology breakthrough reveals cellular transcription process
Localized climate change contributed to ancient southwest depopulation
Thirty new spider species found in one of China's richest biodiversity hotspots
Reliable RNA analysis now easier with NIST 'dashboard' tool
Research could improve nuclear power plant safety -- and stop your kettle furring up
Electron pairs on demand
UT Dallas engineer applies robot control theory to improve prosthetic legs
Pulsars with black holes could hold the 'holy grail' of gravity
A poisonous cure
Why tool-wielding crows are left- or right-beaked
'Non-echolocating' fruit bats actually do echolocate, with wing clicks
The walls can talk: New optical technique extracts audio from video
'How much--and when?' Life-history trade-offs a factor in whole-organism performance
Finding infant earths and potential life just got easier
Electric eels deliver Taser-like shocks
Geophysicists challenge traditional theory underlying the origin of mid-plate volcanoes
Greenhouse gases linked to African rainfall
New research paves the way for nano-movies of biomolecules
The finer details of rust
Smoking and higher mortality in men
Antarctica: Heat comes from the deep
Maintaining a reliable value of the cost of climate change
'Satiety hormone' leptin links obesity to high blood pressure