Wildlife and habitat

Fish Nets Found to Kill Large Numbers of Birds
USGS Study Confirms US Amphibian Populations Declining at Precipitous Rates
Snake Fungal Disease: The White-Nose Syndrome for Reptiles?
    More info: Snake Fungal Disease
Study of Oceans' Past Raises Worries About Their Future
Climate change study: 82 percent of Calif. native fish species risk extinction
Marijuana Crops in California Threaten Forests and Wildlife
Fish and Wildlife Services proposes endangered listing for chimpanzees
Smog caused by Indonesian forest fires hits record levels in Singapore
Plan lifts Lower 48 wolf protections
Iceland resumes controversial whale hunt
Can Pennsylvania’s State Forests Survive Additional Marcellus Shale Drilling?
Northern flying squirrels in Pa. soaring to extinction?  

Report Criticizes U.S. Stewardship of Wild Horses
Turbine Plans Unnerve Fans of Condors in California
The Wild Horses’ Troubled Rescue
    Related: Nev. Gov. Signs Wild Horse Law: State & Non-Profits to Partner
Turtle conservation groups reassess after guardian is killed on Costa Rican beach
New artificial bait recipe may cut use of horseshoe crabs
Glimmer of hope for critically endangered butterfly in Florida
New Green-Eyed Butterfly Is Rare American Discovery
Rediscovered Hula painted frog 'is a living fossil'
Giant Fluorescent Pink Slug Discovered In Australia
Don't See Cicadas? Don't Be Surprised

Discoveries about the natural world

Biological clocks 'beat quicker' in cities
Brazil rainforest deforestation leads to seed shrinkage
With exposure to babies, rodent dads’ brains, like moms’, become wired for nurture
How similar are the gestures of apes and human infants? More than you might suspect
Who's (Socially) Smarter: The Dog or the Wolf?
Ape tantrums: Chimps and bonobos emotional about choice
Gannets don't eat off each other's plates
The Sex Life of Birds, and Why It’s Important
A (Spider) Web of Knowledge
Wild Cheetah Accelerate Fast and Reach Speeds of Up to 58 Miles Per Hour
By trying it all, predatory sea slug learns what not to eat
Centuries-old frozen plants revived

Can a mammoth carcass really preserve flowing blood and possibly live cells?
How Diving Mammals Evolved Underwater Endurance
Tiny Chinese Archicebus fossil is oldest primate yet found
Earliest Bird Claim Ruffles Feathers
Why Did Penguins Stop Flying? The Answer Is Evolutionary
Fossil shows how turtle got a shell
3 billion-year-old microfossils include plankton
Life on Earth shockingly comes from out of this world
In Glittering Gems, Reading Earth’s Story
Earthquake acoustics can indicate if a massive tsunami is imminent, Stanford researchers find
 
Weather and climate

National Climatic Data Center Releases May 2013 Global Climate Report
U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather/Climate Disasters
Small-scale U.S. lab experiment removes CO2 from atmosphere at relatively low cost
    Related: New Catalyst Neutralizes Gases Responsible for Climate Change
What to Make of a Climate-Change Plateau
Pollution in Northern Hemisphere helped cause 1980s African drought
97% global warming consensus meets resistance from scientific denialism
Methane emissions higher than previously known in many regions

Environmental policy

US forest management policy must evolve to meet bioenergy targets
Predator and Prey, a Delicate Dance (opinion)

Energy

Solar Industry Anxious Over Defective Panels
New all-solid sulfur-based battery outperforms lithium-ion technology
Nanoparticle opens the door to clean-energy alternatives
China Reaps Biggest Benefits of Iraq Oil Boom
British Columbia Rejects West Coast Pipeline Plan
Why Honda's Unloading Electric Cars for Cheap
The Exploding Growth of Bikesharing

Water

Klamath Tribes and feds exercise water rights
Water Levels Fall in Great Lakes, Taking a Toll on Shipping
Dangerous strains of E. coli may linger longer in water than benign counterparts, study finds

Air

Autism Tied to Air Pollution, Brain-Wiring Disconnection
'Self-Cleaning' Pollution-Control Technology Could Do More Harm Than Good
American West Becoming Increasingly Dusty
More fresh air in classrooms means fewer absences
Gizmo Uses Lung Cells To Sniff Out Health Hazards In Urban Air
 
Chemical concerns, radiation, waste management, recycling

Erin Brockovich's Biggest Debunker, Debunked
Johnson & Johnson Removes Some Chemicals from Baby Shampoo, Other Products
Detecting lead hotspots in urban gardens requires different sampling strategies

Agriculture and food, gardening, livestock and pets

Scientists fool veggies into being more nutritious
    More info: Keep fruit and vegetables in daylight to boost nutrients
BPA Linked to Obesity Risk in Puberty-Age Girls
18 mayors: Limit use of food stamps to buy soda

Want to Live Longer? Eat a Plant-Based Diet
Really? The Claim: Fresh Produce Has More Nutrients Than Canned
This Is Your Brain on Coffee
Parents with heavy TV viewing more likely to feed children junk food
Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food
Outbreak of deadly piglet virus spreads to 13 U.S. states
Smithfield to Be Sold to Chinese Meat Processor
Unapproved genetically modified wheat from Monsanto found in Oregon field
    Update: USDA: Modified wheat appears to be isolated
Hepatitis A linked to frozen berries sickens 87
Putting Food Traceability at Consumers' Fingertips
Mexico says it may suspend U.S. trade preferences over meat labels
"If you like eating shrimp, you'd probably love eating cicadas"

Health and medicine, human behavior

The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill
States’ Policies on Health Care Exclude Some of the Poorest
New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
Smooth, on-time Obamacare rollout no sure thing: GAO
Supreme Court Rules Human Genes May Not Be Patented
Measles increases in U.K. may be due to flawed autism study
Study Finds Sharp Drop in HPV Infections in Girls
New MERS virus spreads easily, deadlier than SARS
Autism discovery paves way for early blood test and therapeutic options
A.M.A. Recognizes Obesity as a Disease
Experts Propose Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials 'to Correct the Scientific Record'
Unraveling the genetic mystery of medieval leprosy
Experts Debate Plan to Speed Antibiotic Development
Conflict-of-interest restrictions needed to ensure strong FDA review
Spanish researchers writing in cell describe the 9 hallmarks of aging
New vaccine drives Africa meningitis cases to lowest in decade
Vinegar cancer test saves lives, India study finds
House approves bill creating nationwide pharmaceutical traceability
Transplant advisory panels not expected to recommend change to lung policy
Justices decline to hear Planned Parenthood funding case
In Reversal, Obama to End Effort to Restrict Morning-After Pill
Sugar Overload Can Damage Heart
Study points to role of nervous system in arthritis
New report identifies research priorities for most pressing gun violence problems in US
Is It Better to Walk or Run?
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
New research shows cheese may prevent cavities
Age-Related Smelling Loss Significantly Worse in African-Americans
Every 10 Tobacco Ad Sightings Boost Teens' Risk of Starting to Smoke by Almost 40 Percent
Concussion patients show Alzheimer's-like brain abnormalities, study finds
Study: Brain connections strengthen during waking hours, weaken during sleep
Toddlers' Speech Is Far More Advanced Than Previously Thought
The Days Go By Slowly but the Years Go By Fast. Why? (book review)
'Belief in science' increases in stressful situations
Religious Fundamentalism Treated As A Curable Mental Illness?
Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories
Pop neuroscience is bunk!
The Dangerous Antiscience Views of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (opinion)

Education

Report: Humanities, social science education needed for innovation
Tea party groups mobilizing against Common Core education overhaul

Law

Police Can Collect DNA From Arrests In Serious Crimes, Supreme Court Rules
Poking Holes in Genetic Privacy
Supreme Court bars retroactive application of sentencing guidelines
Violent Crime in U.S. Rises for First Time Since 2006
America's 50 worst charities rake in nearly $1 billion for corporate fundraisers
Searching for the True Sources of Crime (book review)
The F.B.I. Deemed Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings
German Police Used Only 85 Bullets Against People in 2011
Feds: 2 N.Y. men tried to make X-ray weapon

Archeology, anthropology, art and history

The Neanderthal With the World's Oldest Tumor
    More info: Neandertals Got Tumors, Too
Ape-like feet 'found in study of museum visitors'
Did Easter Island's famous statues 'walk' into place?
Cave paintings shed light on mysterious inhabitants of northern Mexico
French wine 'has Italian origins'
Human ancestors' diet changed 3.5 million years ago
Abe Lincoln, math whiz? Notebook pages suggest he was well-schooled
In U.S. whites’ deaths outnumber births for first time

National security, defense

U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program
    Also see: Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations
                    Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant
                    Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program
                    NSA Monitoring Includes Three Major Phone Companies, Online Activity
                    Administration, lawmakers defend NSA program to collect phone records
                    Revelations Give Look at Spy Agency’s Wider Reach
                    Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data
                    Obama Administration Held 22 Briefings For Congress On PRISM's Legal Foundation
                    Call records of fewer than 300 people were searched in 2012, U.S. says
                    A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program
                    Secret court won't object to release of opinion on illegal surveillance
Edward Snowden Claims U.S. Hacks China: Report
CIA didn't always know who it was killing in drone strikes, classified documents show
By Inserting Itself Into Syrian War, Hezbollah Makes Historic Gamble
    Related: In Syrian Victory, Hezbollah Risks Broader Fight
                  U.S. Is Said to Plan to Send Weapons to Syrian Rebels
Secret cyber directive calls for ability to attack without warning
    More info: Obama tells intelligence chiefs to draw up cyber target list – full document text
Confidential report lists U.S. weapons designs compromised by Chinese cyberspies
Why Gitmo Will Never Close

Astronomy and cosmology, spaceflight

Spacecraft data nails down radiation risk for humans going to Mars
    More info: Rover radiation data poses manned Mars mission dilemma
Black hole bonanza possible as immense gas cloud passes
Fast-Spinning Magnetic Star Has Strange Glitch
NASA finds “unprecedented” black hole cluster near Andromeda’s central bulge

Physics, chemistry and materials science, mathematics

Discovery of new material state counterintuitive to laws of physics
Even with defects, graphene is strongest material in the world
Carbon sequestration technique produces supergreen hydrogen fuel
That discovery about prime numbers—and what it means for the future of math
Scientists release plans for new largest particle accelerator, designed to find dark matter

Technology and engineering, robotics

Wi-fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home

Computers and software, the Internet

Facebook adding ability to post image comments
Google launches Internet-beaming balloons
Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman
Remember All Those Passwords? No Need

Of note

Breadwinner Moms
Paul Krugman on Why David Stockman Is a Crank
Are Apostrophes Necessary? No, Not Really.
"Star Trek Continues takes up where the original series left off"

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