National Geographic
- Near-Extinct Monkeys Found in Colombian Park
- A new population of one of the worlds rarest primates has been found in a Colombian park, conservationists announced today.
- Stonehenge Precursor Found? Island Complex Predates Famous Site
- Whats more, the Scottish island complex may have been the model for Englands famous stone-circle site, new data suggest.
- Hottest Thing on Earth: X-rays Heat Metal to 3.6 Million Degrees
- By zapping a scrap of metal with superpowerful x-rays, scientists created plasma that rivals the sun for heat.
- Hyperactive Sun Helping to Clear Out Space Junk
- The recent uptick in solar flares and other sun activity has been causing orbiting debris to fall faster, a NASA scientist reports.
- Space Pictures This Week: Sun Loops, Blue Marble, More
- Plasma arcs over the sun, Earth shines in high resolution, a colorful halo surrounds the moon, and more in the weeks best space pictures.
- Giant Veil of "Cold Plasma" Discovered High Above Earth
- Clouds of slow-moving charged particles reach from the top of Earths atmosphere to a quarter of the distance to the moon, new data show.
- Death Valley's Big Bang: Volcano "Potentially Active"
- It may be barren, but Californias Ubehebe Crater is anything but dead, according to a new study.

Universe Today
- Emerging Supermassive Black Holes Choke Star Formation
- Located on the Chajnantor plateau in the foothills of the Chilean Andes, ESO’s APEX telescope has been busy looking into deep, deep space. Recently a group of astronomers released their findings regarding massive galaxies in connection with extreme times of
- Large Amounts of Water Ice Found Underground on Mars
- Many models predict that water ice shouldn’t be stable on Mars today, anywhere beyond the poles, no matter how deep you bury it. And yet, a recently published study shows that large regions outside the polar areas may, in fact,
- Test Failure Points to Potential Delay for Next Soyuz Launch
- Russia may have to delay the launch of the next crew to the International Space Station, as the descent module of the Soyuz spacecraft experienced an air leak during testing. The next crew of three for the space station had
- Orion Capsule Embarks on Cross Country Public Tour
- Here’s your chance for a birds-eye view of an Orion capsule, up-close and personal. A full scale test version of one of NASA’s Orion spacecraft has embarked on a cross country tour from White Sands, New Mexico, across several states
- Rocket Carrier Causes Bridge Collapse in Kentucky
- A cargo ship carrying rocket components for an upcoming launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station collided with a bridge in Kentucky early January 27, 2012 causing a portion of the bridge to collapse. There were cars on the bridge
- CosmoQuest: Taking Citizen Science to the Next Level
- “X” marks the spot for a new place for Citizen Science on the web. It’s called CosmoQuest and the collaborators of this new website invite you to come visit and do more than just click your mouse. Besides contributing to
- Mystery Moon Flashes Caused by Meteorite Impacts
- For hundreds of years, people have seen tiny flashes of light on the surface of the Moon. Very brief, but bright enough to be seen from Earth, these odd flashes still hadn’t been adequately explained up until now. Also known

The New York Times
- Bydureon, a Diabetes Drug from Amylin, Wins F.D.A. Approval
- The Food and Drug Administration twice declined to approve Bydureon in 2010, with its most serious concern being that the drug might contribute to heart rhythm abnormalities.
- Green Blog: New York's Fracking Deliberations Inch Along
- A meeting with an advisory panel is deferred, suggesting that the decision-making process will not be rushed in coming months.
- Political Science: For a Moon Colony, Technology Is the Easy Part
- The smallest hurdle for establishing a moon colony is the technology, much of which already exists; the economics and politics would be far more difficult.
- Green Blog: Racing Up (and Down) the Performance Index
- In the latest Environmental Performance Index, Switzerland is at the top, Russia is much closer to the bottom and the United States has failed to gain much ground.
- Internet Criticism Pushes China to Act on Pollution
- Under popular pressure, Chinese officials have begun to track the most pernicious measure of urban air pollution and promise to set new health standards and publish data on air pollution.
- Scientist at Work Blog: Wolves, Snow and the Red Dragon
- When snow freezes to the wings of their research plane, scientists studying wolves prepare the Red Dragon - a 25-pound propane tank, 12-volt battery, spark-ignited torch and blower, and a hose, all strapped to a toboggan.
- Green Blog: When Marine Mammals Become Food
- Rising human consumption of marine mammals in tropical regions poses a threat to animals like the dugong, which is similar to a manatee, and the Atlantic humpback dolphin, researchers write.

Scientific American
- California OKs New Rules to Cut Tailpipe Emissions
- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Californias powerful air-quality regulator on Friday approved sweeping new rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles by requiring automakers to put many more electric and hybrid vehicles on the states roads. The regulations, approved unanimously
- How Google's New Privacy Policy Could Affect You
- You’re on the way to a meeting. Traffic seems to be slowing. A text comes in: “You’re going to be late. Take the next exit for alternate route.” It’s from Google.
- Dozens and Dozens: NASA's Kepler Spies Packs of New Exoplanets
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- Are Wallabies Left or Right Handed? Both! (Sometimes)
- Which limb do you prefer? If you’re like most members of our species, you prefer your right hand for most tasks. If you’re like a smaller minority of our species, you might prefer your left hand. Very, very few of
- China Cadmium Spill Threatens Drinking Water for Millions
- BEIJING (Reuters) - A cancer-causing cadmium discharge from a mining company has polluted a long stretch of two rivers in southern China, and officials warned some 3.7 million people of Liuzhou in the Guangxi region to avoid drinking water from
- The Disappearing Actinides, and Other Frustrations from the Bottom Row of the Periodic Table of(...)
- I bought three copies of Sam Kean s The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements . I left the first one in the seat-back
- Guest Post: Shale Gas - The Low Carbon Option?
- It may be surprising to hear that hydraulic fracturing is not the cause of water contamination , but what may be even more surprising is that shale gas produced using fracking may have lower life cycle greenhouse gas emissions than

Space.com
- Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule, Flown by 1st American in Space, Heads to Boston, D.C.
- NASA astronaut Alan Shepard flew the Freedom 7 capsule on May 5, 1961.
- Last Man on Moon & 7 Other Space Leaders Back Mitt Romney
- Two retired astronauts, a former NASA administrator and five other space leaders signed an open letter.
- GOP Presidential Candidates: Where They Stand on Space
- A summary of the Republican contenders views on NASA and the future of American spaceflight.
- Massive X-Flare Tops Sun's Active Week
- The same sunspot to unleash a M.9 flare just a few days ago erupted again with the strongest of flares, X type, on January 27, 2012. Fortunately, the Earth was spared the full brunt of the solar shockwave, but a
- Sun Unleashes Strongest Flare Yet of 2012
- An X-class flare, the most powerful type of solar storm, erupted from the sun today.
- Barge Carrying Atlas Rockets Crashes Into Bridge
- The two launch vehicles are apparently undamaged.
- Shooting Star Flies Over Castle Ruins in Skywatcher Photo
- The ruins of the castle gleam against the backdrop of the Bakony mountain range in the stunning image.

ScienceDaily
- Space weather center to add world's first 'ensemble forecasting' capability
- Leaner, greener flying machines for the year 2025 are on the drawing boards of three industry teams under contract to the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorates Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project.
- New ideas sharpen focus for greener aircraft
- Leaner, greener flying machines for the year 2025 are on the drawing boards of three industry teams under contract to the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorates Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project.
- NASA study solves case of Earth's 'missing energy'
- Two years ago, scientists released a study claiming that inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earths heat and measurements of ocean heating amounted to evidence of missing energy in the planets system. Where was it going? Or, they wondered, was something
- Mars-bound instrument detects solar burst's effects: RAD measures radiation from solar storm
- The largest solar particle event since 2005 hit Earth, Mars and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft traveling in-between, allowing the onboard Radiation Assessment Detector to measure the radiation a human astronaut could be exposed to en route to the Red
- NuSTAR spacecraft arrives in California
- NASAs Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Jan. 27 after a cross-country trip by truck from the Orbital Sciences Corporations manufacturing plant in Dulles, Va. The mission is scheduled to launch
- Mind over matter: Patients' perceptions of illness make a difference
- Whenever we fall ill, there are many different factors that come together to influence the course of our illness. Additional medical conditions, stress levels, and social support all have an impact on our health and well-being, especially when we are
- New information for flu fight
- Influenza virus can rapidly evolve from one form to another, complicating the effectiveness of vaccines and anti-viral drugs used to treat it. By first understanding the complex host cell pathways that the flu uses for replication, researchers are finding new

New Scientist
- Gold-coated ant wields microcog
- Dont fear, ants havent started constructing micromachines: this cog-wielding insect has been sealed in golden armour after death
- Today on New Scientist: 27 January 2012
- All todays stories on newscientist.com, including: arsenic life does not exist after all and repeated drought in east Africa may prompt aid rethink
- US voters are less partisan than they think
- Democrat and Republican voters views on touchstone issues are not as strongly polarised as they assume – but mistrustful activists may often swing elections
- Cane toads lose their killer touch in east Australia
- Australias native species die when they eat poisonous cane toads – but not the blue-tongue lizards of eastern Australia
- Creativity takes teamwork
- What does creativity in science look like? The most creative scientists may be those that collaborate with others from different disciplines, concludes a panel
- Astrophile: Picture yourself on a sandboard on Titan
- Taking in plastic sand, marmalade skies and methane rivers, a tour of Titans sand dunes would be as trippy as a late Beatles song
- Virtual trees sway in wind just like the real thing
- Animators will soon be able to construct startlingly realistic sylvan beauty in movies and video games with a new system for generating 3D virtual trees

BBC
- VIDEO: Bats find shelter in Israeli bunkers
- Bats are finding a surprising haven in abandoned Israeli bunkers, researchers say.
- Fishing's global footprint
- Our use of the oceans riches now has a global reach, a report show
- 'Microplastic' threat to shores
- Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study warns.
- Anti-matter set for gravity test
- Researchers prepare pairs of matter and anti-matter particles in a bid to finally resolve whether anti-matter repels normal matter in a kind of anti-gravity.
- VIDEO: Air pollution alert first for Scotland
- Scotland is to become the first part of the UK to offer a pollution alert system which could be incorporated into weather forecasts.
- 'Record year' for ivory seizures
- More elephant tusks were seized in 2011 than in any year since 1989, when the ivory trade was banned, international wildlife trade group Traffic says.
- VIDEO: Child's toy launched into space
- While America is running down its manned space programme - further north - two Canadian students have shown that flying into space does not always have to be rocket science.

Discovery
- How Do You Start a Fire With Ice?
- You’ll need a sunny day, a frozen lake, a sharp knife, warm hands and some dry leaves or wood.
- Psychics on the Moon and Incoming Sun Spit
- This Week in Discovery News weve got psychics on the moon and the sun is spitting radiation right at us!
- Hunting Pluto's Dangerous Rings
- If there is a ring system, it could spell doom for the speedy New Horizons probe when it flies by in 2015.
- Can You Choose to be Gay?
- Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon says that she chooses to be gay. What does science say?
- Cold Plasma Layer Detected High Above Earth
- Cold, electrically charged particles have long been suspected to exist tens of thousands of miles above the Earths surface, and now satellites have detected such ions there for the first time.
- See the World as a Shrimp Views It
- A specialized camera allows people to see the world as reef-dwelling animals do.
- NASA Welcomes Our Surgical Robot Overlords
- Using a pioneering surgery technique developed for hospitals, could NASA fix satellites in orbit?

Science/AAAS
- Podcast: Magic Mushrooms, Sleeptalking Dolphins, and a Breakthrough for Embryonic Stem Cells
- Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
- National Academy Picks UC Administrator for Top Staff Job
- A jack-of-all-trades in the U.S. science policy arena, Bruce Darling says that becoming executive...
- North Star May Be Wasting Away
- Polaris could be casting off the equivalent of Earths mass every year, observations suggest
- Broad Institute Gets $32.5 Million to Map Cell Circuits
- The Broad Institute has been showered with $32.5 million from a philanthropist to take...
- Japanese Experts Question Safety of—and Need for—Nuclear Power
- TOKYO—Japan is preparing for the possibility of a summer without nuclear power as utilities...
- ScienceShot: Where to Find Fungi to Fuel Orchids
- Symbiotic fungi thrive in mature forests
- Italian Official Added to List of Defendants in Earthquake Trial
- The former head of Italys civil protection department, Guido Bertolaso, is to be investigated...

USATODAY
- NASA's seven new space pioneers are companies
- A half century ago the Mercury Seven embodied Americas space future. Now its the merchant seven: space companies for hire.
- Medical groups assail patenting of human genes
- Businesses argue in court that financial incentives are crucial.
- President Obama kills NASA's moon mission plans
- President Obama is redirecting Americas space program, killing NASAs $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon and using much of that money for new rocket technology research.
- What happens to those 3-D glasses after 'Avatar'?
- Recycling programs are in place to deal with the 935,834 pairs of 3-D glasses worn daily to see Avatar.
- A science book worth your time
- Time waits for no man. But when it comes to time, one man, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll, might be worth yours.
- Study: Water vapor may help 'flatten global warming trend'
- Why Earths surface temperature hasnt warmed as expected puzzles scientists. Water vapor in the stratosphere may be a factor, says a new study.
- Deadly fish virus found in Lake Superior
- Researchers say a fatal fish virus has been found in Lake Superior for the first time, meaning it has spread to all the Great Lakes.

Digg Science
- Big News: Coal Electricity Drops Big Time
- Its been a bad stretch recently for dirty coal, the countrys largest source of global warming emissions. First, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg stepped up and contributed big time to the Sierra Clubs fiercehttp://digg.com/news/science/big_news_coal_electricity_drops_big_timemikek814http://cdn3.diggstatic.com/user/3347795/p.png
- Big News: Coal Electricity Drops Big Time
- Its been a bad stretch recently for dirty coal, the countrys largest source of global warming emissions. First, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg stepped up and contributed big time to the Sierra Clubs fierce
- The World's 18 Strangest Elevators
- Elevators need not be boring metal boxes carrying office employees up and down. Our collection of the worlds strangest includes an elevator that rises through the middle of an aquarium, and one that scales a 1000-foot-high face of a cliff.
- Big bird - Really big bird - from dino era discovered
- An enormous bird, taller than an adult human, walked the Earth (and maybe flew above it) more than 80 million years ago, according a newly discovered fossilized jaw. The finding suggests oversize birds were more common during the Age of
- The Summer Triangle Over Catalonia: APOD August 10th 2011
- Can you find the Summer Triangle? Its not hard to find this famous triangle of stars this time of year from northern locations. Just look straight up after sunset and find three of the brightest stars in the sky that
- Eight years and 34 million miles on, Mars rover nears end of road
- It travelled at an average speed of 60cm an hour and it has arrived a year late. But the Mars rover Opportunity is finally approaching its destination, the rim of the vast Endeavour crater.
- Shot this on Sunday in Nebraska before turning the car around and flooring it
- Imgur is used to share photos with social networks and online communities, and has the funniest pictures from all over the Internet.

Science News Online
- Issue for the week of February 11th, 2012
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- Book Review : A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest by Will(...)
- A look at how global warming could affect the American Southwest reveals a landscape in peril.Oxford Univ., 2011, 369 p., $27.95
- Book Review : Memory: Fragments of a Modern History by Alison Winter
- With examples from police interrogators to hypnotized housewives, a historian describes changing views of memory
- Book Review : BOOK REVIEW: How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel
- Review by Allison Bohac
- Self as Symbol
- The loopy nature of consciousness trips up scientists studying themselves
- Emblems of Awareness
- Brain signatures lead scientists to the seat of consciousness
- Deep Life
- Teeming masses of organisms thrive beneath the seafloor

NASA
- Solar Eclipse over the USA
- A "ring of fire" solar eclipse is coming to the USA this spring. It's the first annular eclipse visible from the contiguous United States in almost 18 years.
- Comet Corpses in the Solar Wind
- A paper published in today's issue of Science raises an intriguing new possibility--the presence of abundant comet corpses in the solar wind. The new research is based on dramatic images of a comet disintegrating in the sun's atmosphere last July.
- What Happened to all the Snow?
- Winter seems to be on hold this year in some parts of the United States. Snowfall has been scarce in places that were overwhelmed with the white stuff at the same time last year. In this story from Science@NASA, JPL
- Re-thinking an Alien World
- A distant super-Earth named "55 Cancri e" is wetter and weirder than astronomers thought possible. The discovery has researchers re-thinking the nature of alien worlds.
- Some Comets like it Hot
- Astronomers are still scratching their heads over Comet Lovejoy, which plunged through the atmosphere of the sun in December and, against all odds, survived. The comet is now receding into the outer solar system leaving many mysteries behind.
- Kepler Discovers a Tiny Solar System
- NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the tiniest solar system so far, composed of a red dwarf star with three rocky planets smaller than Earth.
- Space Mountain Produces Terrestrial Meteorites
- The discovery of a towering mountain on Vesta could solve a longstanding mystery: How did so many pieces of the giant asteroid end up right here on our own planet?
