Saturday Citations: Nice people are happier; Uranus may not be icy; SIM farm reporting

This week, researchers identified the signaling pathways that underlie drug resistance in pancreatic cancer, a normally fatal diagnosis. One physicist proposed that states of consciousness in the brain may result from the brain’s ability to resonate with the quantum vacuum that permeates space. And in a ranking of species monogamy, humans fall between meerkats and beavers.