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Become a Subscribing Member» NEWS A brain at rest offers clues to Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s BY TINA HESMAN SAEY, FEB 09, 2015 03:03 PM PET scans reveal that the breakdown of brain networks differs in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. Read More Read More» NEWS IN BRIEF Humans' environmental rap sheet gets longer BY BETH MOLE, FEB 09, 2015 03:00 PM Ice cores reveal human-caused air pollution 240 years before the Industrial Revolution. Read More Read More» NEWS IN BRIEF Signs of sleep debt found in the blood BY KATE BAGGALEY, FEB 09, 2015 03:00 PM When rats and people skimp on sleep, fats and acids involved in metabolism dwindle. Read More Read More» More Headlines from Science News NEWS IN BRIEF First stars born later than thought New results from the Planck mission indicate that the first stars began to shine 550 million years after the Big Bang. Read More BY CHRISTOPHER CROCKETT, FEB 09, 2015 12:04 PM REVIEWS & PREVIEWS Steven Weinberg looks back at rise of scientific method Steven Weinberg’s new book ‘To Explain the World’ illustrates the difficulty of the development of modern science. Read More BY TOM SIEGFRIED, FEB 08, 2015 11:00 AM REVIEWS & PREVIEWS ‘The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins’ offers window into cetacean societies Dolphins and whales pass cultural knowledge to one another, the authors of a new book argue. Read More BY KATE BAGGALEY, FEB 07, 2015 11:00 AM WILD THINGS Toads prefer to bound, not hop The multiple hops made by toads are really a bounding motion similar to movements made by small mammals. Read More BY SARAH ZIELINSKI, FEB 06, 2015 02:30 PM IT'S ALIVE Fairly bad pitcher traps triumph in the end Carnivorous pitcher plant traps rarely catch much, but their lackadaisical hunting turns out not to be so lame after all. Read More BY SUSAN MILIUS, FEB 06, 2015 01:21 PM SCIENCE TICKER Funding canceled for clean coal plant The Department of Energy has scrapped funding for FutureGen, a project to use new technology to sequester carbon dioxide emissions from a coal power plant. Read More BY BETH MOLE, FEB 06, 2015 12:33 PM NEWS IN BRIEF Rainforest frogs flourish with artificial homes A rainforest frog population grew by about 50 percent when scientists built pools for tadpoles that mimic puddles made by other animals. Read More BY KATE BAGGALEY, FEB 06, 2015 12:00 PM