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#Most Interesting Science News articles of the WeekLove sweet love sloth potty breaks and star-shaped cataracts are just a few of the cool Science stories we found this week.</Click On!</Even water tastes sweeter when you're in love new research finds.</But not every emotion heightens the senses. Jealousy fails to bring out bitter or sour tastes despite metaphors that suggest it might researchers report in the December 2013 issue of the journal Emotion.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/42730-love-really-is-sweet. html target=blank>Love Really Is Sweet Science Reveals</a p>The remains of a mansion that likely held high-ranking officials some 4500 years ago have been discovered near Egypt's Giza Pyramids. Bones from young cattle and teeth from leopards suggest its residents ate and dressed like royalty.</Archaeologists excavating a city just 400 meters (1312 feet) south of the Sphinx uncovered the house and nearby mound containing the hind limbs of young cattle the seals of high-ranking officials which were inscribed with titles like the scribe of the royal box and the scribe of the royal school and leopard teeth (but no leopard).<Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/42717-leopard-teeth-found-at-giza-pyramids. html target=blank>Tasty Life: Leopard Teeth Calf bones Found in Ruins Near Pyramids</a p>Sloths are the quintessential couch potatoes of the rainforest and these sluggish tree-dwellers also serve as a hotel for moths and algae.</Three-toed sloths descend from the trees once a week to defecate providing a breeding ground for moths that live in the animals'fur and nourishing gardens of algae that supplement the sloths'diet new research finds. Leaving the trees burns energy and makes sloths easy prey for predators but the benefits of a richer diet appear to be worth the perils.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/42744-why-sloths-leave-trees-to-poop. html target=blank>Why Sloths Leave the Trees to Poop</a p>Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered intricate mosaics on the floor of a 1500-year-old Byzantine church including one that bears a Christogram surrounded by birds.</The ruins were discovered during a salvage excavation ahead of a construction project in Aluma a village about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Tel aviv the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA ) announced Wednesday (Jan 22. Excavator Davida Eisenberg Degen said the team used an industrial digger to probe a mound at the site and through a 10-foot (3 meters) hole they could see the white tiles of an ancient mosaic.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/42761-ancient-church-mosaics-uncovered-israel. html target=blank>Ancient Church Mosaic With Symbol of Jesus Uncovered in Israel </a p>The colorful mantis shrimp is known for powerful claws that can stun prey with 200 lbs. 91 kilograms) of force. Now new research finds that these aggressive crustaceans are weird in another way: They see color like no other animal on the planet.</In fact the 400-million-year-old visual system of the mantis shrimp works more like a satellite sensor than any other animal eye said study researcher Justin Marshall a neurobiologist at the University of Queensland in Australia. Instead of processing ratios of stimulation from just a few color receptors the mantis shrimp has 12 and it seems to use them to recognize color with minimal effort.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/42797-mantis-shrimp-sees-color. html target=blank>Aggressive Mantis shrimp Sees Color Like No Other</a p>A video recorded by accident of ball lightning in China is now shedding light on the phenomenon's mysterious origins researchers say.</Ball lightning occurs as glowing spheres ranging in size from a golf ball to a very large beach ball (1 to 100 centimeters or 0. 4 inches to 39 inches in diameter. These fiery orbs can be white yellow red orange purple or green and can persist for seconds or even minutes. Ball lightning typically appears during thunderstorms and usually hovers near the ground drifting over the Earth at a few miles per hour but it has also been seen on ships and even within airplanes.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/42732-ball-lightning-video. html target=blank>Strange Ball Lightning Caught on High-speed Video</a p>Polar bears have shifted to a diet of more land-based food in response to climate change and melting sea ice in the Arctic new research finds.</The results suggest that polar bears at least in the western Hudson bay area may be slightly more flexible in the face of climate change than previously thought.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/42807-polar-bear-diet-shifting. html target=blank>Polar bears Hunt On land as Ice Shrinks</a p>The world 's best surfers are gearing up for Mavericks International an elite surf competition that pits big-wave riders against the monster swells at a Northern California Beach.</The competition happens every year in the winter at Pillar Point in Half moon Bay Calif. at a time when the waves and weather align. When the forecast looks good surfers have just 48-hours to make it to the competition.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/42826-mavericks-science-of-big-waves. html target=blank>Mavericks Competition: Why Surf Spot Has Monster Waves</a p>The question of whether alcohol or marijuana is worse for health is being debated once again this time sparked by comments that President Barack Obama made in a recent interview with The New yorker magazine.</As has been documented well I smoked pot as a kid and I view it as a bad habit and a vice not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life Obama said during the interview. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/42738-marijuana-vs-alcohol-health-effects. html target=blank>Marijuana vs. Alcohol: Which Is Really Worse for Your Health?</</a p>A 42-year old electrician in California developed star-shaped cataracts in his eyes after a serious work-related accident caused electricity to run through his body according to a new report of the case.</The man's left shoulder came into contact with 14000 volts of electricity and an electric current passed through his entire body including the optic nerve the nerve that connects the back of the eye to the brain.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/42778-electrical-burn-star-cataract. html target=blank>Electrical Burn Causes Man's Star-shaped Cataract</a p p

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