HuffPost Science: Oldest Known Star Found; New DNA Technique; Teen Pot Study Flawed?

January 15, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Nearby Star Called Universe's Oldest Which is our universe's oldest star? Astronomers now say the honor may go to HD 140283, a gassy giant that's celebrated an estimated 13.2 billion birthdays, give or take a couple hundred million, according to the January 2013 issue of Nature. Continue reading... New Gene Method Reveals Looks Of Long-Dead Does Pot Use Lower Teens' I.Q.? What New Study Says Alien Planet Bonanza Reported By Astronomy Group Faces In Space: Planets, Celestial Formations That Look Like Visages (PHOTOS) Marijuana Study Tying Teens' Pot Use To I.Q. Drop Is Flawed, New Paper Suggests USS Hatteras 3D Map Shows Civil War Warship 150 Years After It Sank JOHN FAHEY Our Greatest Adventures Are Ahead of Us The revolutionary tools today's explorers are using to "increase and diffuse" knowledge would have seemed like science fiction to our founders. These new technologies are opening up arenas of exploration never before possible, revealing details of cultures once thought lost to science. Continue reading... AMY CUDDY Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth. People judge trustworthiness before competence. Continue reading... WRAY HERBERT Mourning and Memory: A Paradoxical Grief There is a name for disordered mourning. It's called complicated grief, and the abnormal traits may be rooted in a paradox of memory. Continue reading... DR. DOUGLAS FIELDS Thinking With Your Body The neurons setting our heart racing, our skin to sweating, and our stomach churning, are draped in a network throughout the body cavity next to the organs they control, completely outside the brain and spinal cord. Continue reading... VLAD CHITUC The Evolution of Religion: God or the Group We're social animals, and we're at our best in social groups. Religion just happens to be a really accessible group. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.