鈥淲e are looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything we have considered.鈥�
Chris Field of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that global warming is outpacing the predictions of the panel鈥檚 2007 report (Reuters, 14 February)
鈥淭he words Darwin used are identical to those used by Tibetan Buddhists.鈥�
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Paul Ekman at the University of California, San Francisco, claims Darwin鈥檚 writings on compassion and morality echo those of Buddhism, but adds that it鈥檚 probably just a coincidence (The Independent, London, 16 February)
鈥淚f we can get our hands on this former president and subject him to some of our manipulations, it would be just a matter of time before he was really loving broccoli.鈥�
George Bush senior hates broccoli, but experiments by Elizabeth Loftus at the University of California, Irvine, suggest that food aversions are often false memories which can be easily reversed (New 杏吧原创 blog, 14 February)
鈥淚t certainly could play a role in why people鈥� write diaries or bad lyrics to songs.鈥�
Brain scans by Matthew Lieberman at the University of California, Los Angeles, suggest that putting feelings into words activates a region of the brain that regulates emotional distress (Reuters, 14 February)
鈥淚t could be right in front of our noses 鈥� or even in our noses.鈥�
Paul Davies of Arizona State University calls for a 鈥渕ission to Earth鈥� to hunt for weird forms of undiscovered life (BBC News, 16 February)
All soundbites are from the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago