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#Most Interesting Science News articles of the WeekFrom echos of the Big bang to the breathing of the Amazon forest we found some super cool stories in Science this week!</Click on!</Astronomers have found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation the theorized dramatic expansion of the universe that put the bang in the Big bang 13.8 billion years ago new research suggests.</If it holds up the landmark discovery which also confirms the existence of hypothesized ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves would give researchers a much better understanding of the Big bang and its immediate aftermath.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44136-universe-inflation-gravitational-waves-discovery. html target=blank>Major Discovery:''Smoking Gun'for Universe's Incredible Big bang Expansion Found</a p>There's never been a shortage of doomsday scenarios. From the dreaded Mayan Apocalypse of 2012 (remember that? to the havoc wreaked in the movie The Day after tomorrow people have been predicting the end of civilization for as long as there has been a civilization.</The trouble is they're sometimes correct: The Roman empire fell spectacularly as did the Mayan civilization the Han Dynasty of China India's Gupta Empire and dozens of other once-mighty kingdoms.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44171-society-civilization-collapse-study. html target=blank>Society Is doomed Scientists Claim</a p>Like camels of the sea a species of sea snake goes without a drink for months on end gradually dehydrating before refueling with freshwater when rain falls new research suggests.</Perhaps six or seven months of the year these snakes are living thirsty said Coleman Sheehy III an evolutionary biologist at the University of Florida and a co-author of the study published today (March 18) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44190-sea-snakes-dehydrate. html target=blank>Camels of the Ocean: Sea snake Dehydrates for Months</a p>A 3000-year-old skeleton from a conquered territory of ancient Egypt is now the earliest known complete example of a person with malignant cancer spreading from an organ findings that could help reveal insights on the evolution of the disease researchers say.</Cancer is one of the world's leading causes of death today with numbers more than doubling over the past 30 years. However direct evidence of cancer from ancient human remains is compared very rare with that from other medical conditions. This suggests the disease could mainly be a product of modern factors such as smoking diet pollution and greater life expectancies.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44269-oldest-metastatic-cancer-skeleton. html target=blank>Earliest Invasive Cancer Found in 3000-Year-Old Skeleton </a p>There's no mistaking the odor of burning rubber for the fresh smell after a summer rain but now new research shows the human nose can distinguish among many more odors than once thought.</People often say that humans can distinguish among only 10000 different odors. But in fact the nose can tell apart at least 1 trillion different odors and possibly many more the new findings suggest.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44240-human-nose-distinguishes-1-trillion-scents. html target=blank>The Nose Knows: Humans Can Smell More than 1 Trillion Scents</a p>The first direct evidence of cosmic inflation a period of rapid expansion that occurred a fraction of a second after the Big bang also supports the idea that our universe is just one of many out there some researchers say.</On Monday (March 17) scientists announced new findings that mark the first-ever direct evidence of primordial gravitational waves ripples in space-time created just after the universe began. If the results are confirmed they would provide smoking-gun evidence that space-time expanded at many times the speed of light just after the Big bang 13.8 billion years ago.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44158-multiverse-cosmic-inflation-gravitational-waves. html target=blank>Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests</a p >Pristine Amazon forests pull in more carbon dioxide than they put back into the atmosphere according to a new study. The findings confirm that natural Amazon forests help reduce global warming by lowering the planet's greenhouse gas levels the researchers said.</When scientists account for the world's carbon dioxide their totals suggest some of the greenhouse gas disappears into land-based carbon traps. These natural carbon sinks such as forests absorb and store carbon dioxide helping to lower the greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. Living trees take in carbon dioxide which they need to grow. Dead trees release their stored carbon back into the atmosphere through decay.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44235-amazon-rainforest-carbon-cycle-measured. html target=blank>Amazon Rainforest Breathes In More than It Breathes Out</a p>Tattoos are all about self-expression and now one artist has taken that body modification to an extra sensory dimension: A new project allows the musically inclined to make music from their bicep body art.</The project called Reading my Body was created by Russian visual artist Dmitry Morozov. The project uses rail-mounted sensors that crawl across the skin to read a tattoo that resembles a chunky barcode. The notes and instructions for the sensors are inked into flesh.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44279-tattoo-makes-music. html target=blank>New Tattoo Makes Sweet Music</a p>In the first joint result from the world's two leading particle colliders scientists have determined the mass of the heaviest elementary particle the top quark.</The measurement was made using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva Switzerland and the Tevatron at Fermilab in Batavia Ill. Four separate experiments found a joint value for the top quark of 173.34(+/0. 76) gigaelectronvolts divided by the speed of light squared scientists announced Wednesday (March 19) at a physics conference in Italy.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44230-mass-of-top-quark-found-joint-effort. html target=blank>Top quark: Mass of World's Heaviest Elementary particle Found</a p>Interested in current trends in American pornography? How about insights into the culture of pornography or the nature of sexual fantasy?</If so have we got the journal for you.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44271-new-journal-porn-studies. html target=blank>New Porn Studies Journal Launches</a p p

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