National Geographic
- Superfast Stars Have Five-Minute Orbits
- Two stellar corpses circle each other in just 5.4 minutes, whirling tightly together at 310 miles a second, a new study confirms.
- Headless Man's Tomb Found Under Maya Torture Mural
- The tomb of a headless Maya man has been discovered beneath an ancient chamber famously painted with scenes of torture.
- Haiti Earthquake Pictures: Your Images of the Aftermath
- See National Geographic enthusiasts eyewitness views of recovery and ruin in Haiti after the January 12 earthquake.
- Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
- Time-lapse satellite views of a West Virginia coal mine show how long-term mountaintop mining can wipe out swaths of forest.
- Saturn Moon Has Surprisingly Slushy Insides
- Under the brittle, icy crust of Titan lies a surprisingly icy mush, followed by a liquid ocean and a core of rock and ice, new data suggest.
- Stolen Sarcophagus Handed Over to Egypt
- Confiscated in Miami, a brightly painted, 3,000-year-old sarcophagus was handed over to Egypts antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, on Wednesday. Video.

Universe Today
- Gemini – Twins Everywhere!
- Now that we've hunted down Orion and been bull ridin' with Taurus, it's time for us to discover a pair of celestial brothers – the Gemini twins. Gemini is one of the members of the zodiac which means the imaginary
- New Episode of This Week In Space With Miles O'Brien
- This Week in Space with Miles O'Brien highlights: Space hits the red carpet: IMAX: Hubble 3D debuts at the Air and Space Museum, a Falcon 9 "hot fire" disappoints, the shuttle program manager says "no problem" for shuttle to keep
- A Deep Sky Celebration…
- If you don't know this face, then let me introduce you. His name is Ken Crawford and he's the man "behind the curtain" of some of the most amazing works of astrophotography just this side of the Hubble Space Telescope.
- Successful Engine Test Firing for SpaceX Inaugural Falcon 9
- SpaceX announced that today’s (Mar 13) test firing of all 9 Merlin first stage engines was successful at Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral. This is a major milestone towards the planned inaugural first flight of the Falcon 9 rocket which
- Astronomy Without A Telescope – Home Made Quark-Gluon Soup
- The most powerful operational heavy-ion collider in the world, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) recently recorded the highest ever temperature created in an Earth-based laboratory of 4 trillion Kelvin. Achieved at the almost speed of light collision of gold
- Where In The Universe #95
- Ready for another Where In The Universe Challenge? Here's #95! Take a look and see if you can name where in the Universe this image is from. Give yourself extra points if you can name the spacecraft responsible for the
- Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: March 12-14, 2010
- Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! If you're a die-hard amateur astronomer, then you'll recognize this as one of the prime times to undergo the rigorous "Messier Marathon" – an all night race to see how many Messier objects you can capture! If

The New York Times
- Hurdles Remain for City’s Settlement of 9/11 Suit
- A federal judge overseeing the settlement between the city and 9/11 cleanup and rescue workers said he would take a week to review the terms of the accord.
- Findings: Trusting Nature as the Climate Referee
- An economist suggests imposing a tax linked to the earth’s future warming.
- Books on Science: A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing
- A collection of essays pays tribute to Jim Gray, a database software engineer who disappeared off the California coast almost three years ago.A new book is a tribute to a Microsoft researcher, lost at sea in 2007, who argued that
- Did You Hear the One About the Former Scientist?
- Tim Lee, performing last week, showed his comedy audience how a substitution in messenger RNA had no effect on a protein. The same is true of rock bands, he said. “You can actually remove the drummer and replace him with
- Half a Lifetime Spent in Pursuit of Waterbirds
- Theodore Cross spent the first half of his life oblivious to birds only to become one of their most ardent photographers and advocates in the second half.
- For Bicyclists Needing a Boost, This Wheel May Help
- It is not easy to reinvent the wheel, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are giving it their best shot.
- In Surgery, a Tangled Tumor Meets Its Match
- Dr. Tomoaki Kato in glasses and his team at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia operated last week on a 59-year-old Wisconsin man with a cancerous tumor.At NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia, surgeons spent 43 hours performing an ex vivo procedure on a man whose liver was

Scientific American
- Who Is to Blame for Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
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- Report: Climate change is taking a toll on U.S. bird populations
- North American bird species are "facing a new threat--climate change--that could dramatically alter their habitat and food supply and push many species towards extinction," said Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on Thursday when he announced the new report, "
- Keeping Love Alive: Scientific American Does Its Part
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- Advances in disease surveillance: Putting the "public" into public health
- MIAMI--Before a government reports a disease outbreak, cases must usually be counted, verified and assessed--a process that can take days, weeks or months.
- Software behaving badly: Machine learning could resolve issues raised by multi-core processors
- What computers have gained in speed with the introduction of multicore processors that split up workloads they may be losing in reliability. This is because software applications are written to execute different actions in a specific order. When different pieces
- Bluefin fishing ban to be proposed
- A complete ban of the international commercial trade in bluefin tuna is to be proposed at an upcoming world conservation conference
- 3D TV hits homes
- Consumers can now bring the 3D experience into their homes, but programming is limited, and the prices can be high.

Space.com
- Secret Military Space Plane Primed For Test Launch
- A secretive military spacecraft called X-37B is in Florida to prepare for launch on April 19.
- Images - Cosmic Visions From Paranal Observatory
- The European Paranal Observatory in Chile offers stunning views of the night sky high up in the Atacama Desert.
- Comet Makes Death Plunge Toward Sun
- A newfound comet is heading for a brush with the sun, one which it will likely not survive.
- Mysterious Speed Record May Explain Mystery of Sun
- The giant conveyor belt of plasma in the sun is mysteriously running at record speed.
- Zero-G Launches Airborne Weightless Science Lab
- ZERO-G is offering researchers a chance to fly in a plane that simulates weightless and low-gravity environments like the moon, Mars, and Earth-orbit.
- 'Killer Electrons' Get Super-Charged Above Earth
- Killer electrons generated in Earths magnetic shield when solar storms hit.
- New Suborbital Spaceships Spark Scientific Frenzy
- Anticipation is growing for new commercial suborbital spaceships that can serve the scientific and educational market.

ScienceDaily
- Psychopaths' brains wired to seek rewards, no matter the consequences
- The brains of psychopaths appear to be wired to keep seeking a reward at any cost, new research finds. The research uncovers the role of the brains reward system in psychopathy and opens a new area of study for understanding
- Freshwater polyp hydra genome sequenced: Survey finds genes linked to Huntington's, Alzheimer's
- An international team of scientists have sequenced the genome of Hydra, a freshwater polyp thats been a staple of biological research for 300 years.
- New microscopy technique offers close-up, real-time view of cellular phenomena
- For two decades, scientists have been pursuing a potential new way to treat bacterial infections, using naturally occurring proteins known as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Now, scientists have recorded the first microscopic images showing the deadly effects of AMPs, most of
- Unlocking the opium poppy's biggest secret: Genes that make codeine, morphine
- Researchers have discovered the unique genes that allow the opium poppy to make codeine and morphine, opening the door to alternate methods of producing these effective painkillers either by manufacturing them in a lab or controlling the production of these
- Silk structure analysis explains paradox of super-strength; could lead to even stronger synthet(...)
- Spiders and silkworms are masters of materials science, but scientists are finally catching up. Silks are among the toughest materials known, stronger and less brittle, pound for pound, than steel. Now scientists have unraveled some of their deepest secrets in
- New cancer drug screening technique more closely mirrors reality
- Improving on traditional screening tests for potential anti-cancer drugs, scientists have developed a laboratory technique that more closely simulates the real-world conditions in which tumor cells mingle with the bodys normal cells.
- Family history is strong predictor of obstructive coronary artery disease using CCTA
- In the largest study of its kind to date using cardiac computed tomography angiography, people with a family history of early signs of coronary artery disease are at higher risk of developing obstructive coronary artery disease and plaque in their

New Scientist
- Strung-out plastic performs heat feat
- Nanoscale polyethylene fibres conduct heat better than pure iron – good news for circuit board designers
- 'Wasabi' gene gives snakes night vision
- Humans and rattlesnakes have similar receptors – for us they detect taste but in the snakes they sense heat from potential prey
- Shape-shifting polymer pulls off amazing memory tricks
- The polymer, called Nafion, can remember three distinct shapes when heated – the best yet for a shape-memory polymer
- Metal mist clears for fusion power
- A fine mist of toxic metal will not choke off the fusion reactions inside the planned ITER reactor, as physicists had feared
- Does the pill help women live longer? Yes and no
- A study shows the contraceptive pill could be helping women live longer, but not that it has more pros than cons, says Jessica Hamzelou
- Today on New Scientist: 12 March 2010
- All todays stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: better living through green chemistry, getting electric cars onto the power grid, and why Terminator asteroids could re-form after being nuked
- Better living through green chemistry
- For many people, chemical is still a dirty word – but wooden trousers, dream creams and mussel muscles are coming to the rescue

BBC
- What happened next? Zebra puts head in hippo's mouth
- A zebra at Zurich Zoo appeared doomed when visitors saw its head in the mouth of a hippo, but it was only cleaning its teeth.
- Ivory and tuna top wildlife talks
- UN wildlife negotiations begin on banning the trade in bluefin tuna and permitting sales of ivory at a two-week summit in Doha.
- Apollo men decry Obama Moon plans
- Nasa Moon astronauts tell the BBC President Barack Obamas decision to cancel the US lunar programme is catastrophic.
- Coffee car
- The waste fuel for your motor that wont cost a lot
- The brain scan that can 'see people's memories'
- Scientists say they have been able to tell which past event a person is recalling using a brain scan.
- Siberian tigers die at China zoo
- Eleven rare Siberian tigers die at a zoo in north-eastern China, raising fears over treatment of captive animals in the country.
- What happened next? Zebra puts head in hippo's mouth
- A zebra at Zurich Zoo appeared doomed when visitors saw its head in the mouth of a hippo, but it was only cleaning its teeth.

CNN
- Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years
- NASAs launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington.
- Shuttle lands at California air base
- NASA officials Sunday waved off the first opportunity for space shuttle Endeavour to return to Earth, citing poor weather conditions.
- Inspiration for 'Contact' still listening
- From a remote valley in Northern California, Jill Tarter is listening to the universe.
- Indian lunar orbiter hit by heat rise
- Scientists have switched off several on-board instruments to halt rising temperatures inside Indias first unmanned lunar spacecraft.
- Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years
- NASAs launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington.
- Shuttle lands at California air base
- NASA officials Sunday waved off the first opportunity for space shuttle Endeavour to return to Earth, citing poor weather conditions.

Discovery
- SpaceX Fires Up
- In case youve wondering, thats what a fully lit Falcon 9 rocket looks like at ignition, which occurred, by the way, for the first time this weekend at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where SpaceX is preparing for
- Lunar Mirror Mystery Solved
- Reflectors placed on the moon during Apollo missions practically stop working during a full moon. Now we may know why.
- Comet-Kaze Strikes The Sun
- The SOHO observatory catches a comet crashing into the sun.
- Why Do We Have Daylight Savings Time?
- Its a question people are probably more likely to ask themselves this time of year when we go to bed and then lose an hour. It can feel wildly unfair for the clock to say 7:00 a.m. when it actually
- 'World's Strongest Chicken' Pulls Chariot
- The alleged worlds strongest chicken is appearing at a Green Bay rodeo where he will pull trainer and rodeo clown Rory Meeks in a specially designed chicken chariot.
- Star Predicted to Blast Through the Solar System
- In 1.5 million years time, the solar system could be in for a rough ride. An orange dwarf star named Gliese 710 is powering in our direction and an astronomer has calculated an 86 percent chance of the interstellar interloper
- Camera Shy Pregnant Male Seahorse Photographed Giving Birth
- The Pacific Seahorse would seem to be a movie natural. This fish is dramatic yellow in color, with sparkling eyes and a hairdo-looking tuft on its head that would be at home on a Dr. Seuss character. But few have

Science/AAAS
- Roundup 3/12: Go Fish Edition
- Japans predilection for marine delicacies underlines two of todays headlines. The government formally arrested...
- Spain Turns to Science for Stimulus
- Spains economy is in trouble. The countrys real-estate bubble has collapsed and its unemployment...
- Scientists Case on Background Check Reaches High Court
- A long-running legal battle between the United States government and a group of 29...
- MIT's Suresh Tapped to Be NSF Director
- The dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in line to...
- Study Peels Back More of the Magnetic Sun
- Speed of magnetic flow affects the strength of a solar cycle
- Roundup 3/11: Like a Snake Edition
- Vacationing in Florida? Want to bring your python? Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
- NIST Looks to Reorganize Its Labs, Top Management
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology is reorganizing its eight laboratory divisions. Currently,...

USATODAY
- Tracking the tarantula
- Big, hairy, bloodthirsty vermin if youve seen one tarantula, youve seen them all, right?
- Ask USA TODAY Weather
- How do I track the national and worldwide high temperatures each day? Why is snow so bright at night? These and many more weather questions are answered in our online weather Q and A column.
- Texas earthquakes may be linked to wells for gas mining
- Saltwater pumped into the earth to release natural gas offers a plausible, but not definitive, explanation for small quakes in 2008 and 2009.
- How Henrietta Lacks' cells fueled medical breakthroughs
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the story of a poor black woman and some of the most important discoveries of modern medicine.
- Researchers link inflammation to illness in overweight people
- Obesity scientist dig deep to find the connection between body fat, white blood cells and a cascade of diseases.
- Former head of Johnson Space Center dies in Texas
- Aaron Cohen, the former director of NASAs Johnson Space Center who helped create the space shuttle program, has died in College Station after a long fight with cancer. He was 79.
- Scientists misread data on global warming controversy
- If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then, with apologies to Kipling, you might not be a climate scientist.

Digg Science
- China Developing 'Combustible Ice' as New Energy Source
- Buried below the tundra of China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a type of frozen natural gas containing methane and ice crystals that could supply energy to China for 90 years
- Geothermal vs. Astral Energy
- A shot taken early last year by lake Mývatn up in northeast Iceland. The smoke is actually steam coming from a geothermal plant near Námaskarð.
- Human Brains Have Started to Shrink
- Replica of big skull from 28,000 years ago suggests human brains have started to shrink. Scientists, who claim to have produced one of the best replicas yet of an early modern human�s skull, say it is up to 20 per
- Landslide hits Northern Pakistan, Creates Artificial Lake
- A landslide triggered by torrential rains in northern Pakistan has created a massive artificial lake in the Hunza valley, inundating several villages.Thousands of people are stranded in the highly mountainous region and forced to use boats to get around on
- Human Cells 'Forage' Like Amoebae, Bacteria
- When cells move about in the body, they follow a complex pattern similar to that which amoebae and bacteria use when searching for food, researchers have found. The discovery has a practical value for drug development: Incorporating this basic behavior
- Should We Be Trying to Save the Dodo?
- Declaring a species extinct is no trivial matter. A team of Australian researchers are trying to bring a more rigorous approach to this area with the help of the dodo.
- The Frame: Hunting for "The Hobbit" (PICS)
- The discovery of ***** floresiensis shocked and divided scientists. Here apparently was a band of distant relatives that exhibited features not seen for millions of years but were living at the same time as much more modern humans

Science News Online
- Chemists pin down poppy's tricks for making morphines
- Identifying enzymes involved in opiate synthesis could mean better ways to make painkillers
- Pit vipers' night vision explained
- Study finds protein responsible for sensing heat from prey
- One key to teaching toddlers with TV: trickery
- New research suggests why kids under 3 don’t learn from video
- Young science scholars to be recognized
- Science Talent Search will soon announce winners
- Issue for the week of March 27th, 2010
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- Odds are, it's wrong
- Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics
- In Pursuit of the Briefest Beat
- Attosecond pulses of light could open electrons’ fast-paced world

NASA
- Solar 'Current of Fire' Speeds Up
- A massive "current of fire" on the sun has started running at high speed, surprising researchers and challenging some models of the solar cycle.
- Did the Chilean Quake Shift Earth's Axis?
- Last months 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile was so strong it might have shifted the axis of the entire Earth.
- Spirit's Journey to the Center of Mars
- NASAs venerable Mars rover Spirit is starting a second career as an explorer of the Martian core--but first it must survive the deadly Martian winter.
- Cool Movie: SDO Destroys a Sundog
- NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory amazed onlookers last week when it flew past a sundog and destroyed it. Must-see videos of the event captured shock waves from the rocket billowing through the sundog, eliciting cries of delight and amazement from the
- 3D Sun for the iPhone
- Imagine holding the entire sun in the palm of your hand. Now you can. A new iPhone app developed by NASA-supported programmers delivers a live global view of the sun directly to your cell phone.
- Are TGFs Hazardous to Air Travelers?
- Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) surge through thunderstorms at about the same altitude where commercial airliners fly. Do these blasts of gamma-radiation pose a hazard to air travelers?
- Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission
- The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), slated for liftoff on Feb. 9th, will make IMAX-quality movies of solar explosions, peer beneath the stellar surface to see the suns inner dynamo, and--researchers hope--unravel the mysteries of solar variability.
