G’wan. Get out of here. No, you don’t need me to hold your hand. The Guardian says you should go outside and play!

[A] growing body of evidence is starting to show that it’s not so much what children know about nature that’s important, as what happens to them when they are in nature (and not just in it, but [...]

It’s not just about paralyzing your face to make you look younger. Not too long ago, Indiana University revealed that Botox really does make people happier:

Here’s David Havas, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He helped uncover an interesting possible effect of Botox in a recent study:

“There were 40 participants. They were all patients [...]

That’s what’s still going inside this food-poisoning bacteria, according to Science Daily. Its genetic material is so ancient, it’s older than genes as we know them:

In old textbooks, RNA was viewed simply as the chemical intermediary between DNA’s instruction manual and the creation of proteins. However, Breaker’s lab has identified the existence and function of riboswitches, or RNA [...]

Or, as Discovery News puts it, RETURN TO HELL:

We have a lot of unanswered questions about Venus that warrant a return surface visit. Venus might have once had oceans and even incubated life. But the oceans quickly evaporated into space. Recent data from the European Space Agency’s Venus Express orbiter shows hydrogen leaking into space, which would [...]

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This is a photograph taken off Osprey Reef by researchers with the Sensory Neurology Group of the Queensland Brain Institute. No, not marine biologists – but scientists trying to find out how sight evolved. Where else but the lightless deep to investigate the origins of vision? Things glow down there. And, more importantly, they use senses [...]

Break out the garlic and sulfur compounds. The Guardian’s predicting the end of antibiotics in as soon as 10 years:

Hyperbole? Unfortunately not. The highly serious journal Lancet Infectious Diseases yesterday posed the question itself over a paper revealing the rapid spread of multi-drug-resistant bacteria. “Is this the end of antibiotics?” it asked.

Doctors and scientists have not been [...]

Not Galactus, but Jupiter, says New Scientist. The king of planets got to be so big because it gorged itself on super-Earths sometime in its early past:

New simulations by Shu Lin Li of Peking University in China, and colleagues, may explain why. They calculated what would happen when a super-Earth of 10 times the mass of [...]

Nature reveals a hidden connection between Sahara dust and the Amazon rainforest:

Significant amounts of plant nutrients have been found in atmospheric mineral dust blowing from a vast central African basin to the Amazon, where it could compensate for poor rainforest soils.

The basin, known as the Bodélé depression, is the site of a once-massive lake in Chad. Bodélé is [...]

Big show. Shooting stars. Tomorrow night, night after that. Space.com has some details.

Go. Watch the skies.