Science of the Week, 12/20/13

Here are some of the most interesting science news articles I read this week:

First battery-powered invisibility cloak

Walk like a transcription: DNA motor hobbles along nanotube

Cat domestication traced to Chinese farmers 5,300 years ago

Algae to crude oil: million-year natural process takes minutes in lab

There you are! Dogs recognize faces from images, prefer each other

Harvard machine-learning algorithms could make chemical reactions intelligent

Novel instrument probes close binary stars, may soon image exoplanets

"Superbugs" found breeding in sewage plants

Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code


Have a good weekend, and see you on Monday!