August 7, 2013

Wildlife and habitat

Global Study Reveals True Scale of Ocean Warming
Deforestation rates for Amazon countries outside Brazil
 Cold War Radioactivity Can Date Illegal Elephant Ivory
 Dolphin deaths higher than normal along US East Coast beaches
 Big Lionfish Found at Disturbing Depths
 Blue and beaked whales affected by simulated navy sonar
 Major Changes Needed for Coral Reef Survival
NIH to Retire Research Chimps
    More info: Unlikely Partners, Freeing Chimps From the Lab
 Silent summer: No wolf pup yips heard on Isle Royale
 Personal Grooming Products May Be Harming Great Lakes Marine Life
Butterfly decline signals trouble in environment
Millions of krill wash up on Ore., Calif. beaches
New Map Shows Where Nature Protects US Coast
 Washington wildlife officer to enforce orca laws
 Washington panel restricts octopus hunting
 Forest Corridors Help Link Tiger Populations in India
 A Kinder, Gentler Way to Thin the Deer Herd
New Mexico: Biologists find rare snake near Gila River
 Bald eagles in Pa. soar to new population high
 California: Feds say falcons recovered; no more chick rescues
New Virus Discovered in Stranded Dolphin
How Should We Respond When Humans and Sharks Collide? 
Costa Rica pushes to close public zoos, return some caged animals to the wild

Discoveries about the natural world

Apes remember distant past events
    More info: Apes Capable of 'Mental Time Travel'
 Dolphins 'call each other by name'
    Related: Dolphins Keep Lifelong Social Memories, Longest in a Non-Human Species
 Mammals Can 'Choose' Sex of Offspring, Study Finds
 Cockatoos crack lock-picking puzzle
 Why Closely Related Species Do Not Eat the Same Things
Hawkmoths defense mechanism: Sonar blasts from their genitals
 Guillemot eggs are self-cleaning
 Veeries Very Quiet When Owls Are About
 Unraveling the Pollinating Secrets of a Bee’s Buzz
 New research provides evolutionary snapshot of surprisingly altruistic bees
 Spider webs more effective at snaring electrically charged insects
Scared Earthworms Help Plants Grow
 This super 'hero' shrew has an unbreakable back
 Amazing High Speed X-Ray Videos Reveal How Bats Take Flight
 How Simple Can Life Get? It’s Complicated
 Social amoebae travel with a posse

 Your eyes are half a billion years old
 Dawn of Carnivores Explains Animal Boom in Distant Past
 Sabertooths Had Weak Bites, Used Neck Muscles to Kill
 First horses arose 4 million years ago
 50,000 Year-Old Forest Discovered By Scuba Divers Off Alabama's Coast
Fossil Tooth Is "Smoking Gun" That T. Rex Was a Killer
 Natural affinities—unrecognized until now—may have set stage for life to ignite
 Biggest extinction in history caused by climate-changing meteor?
 Massive Earthquakes Make Volcanoes Sink
 Fast magma refills suggest some volcanoes connect straight to the mantle
 Earth's Mantle Affects Long-Term Sea-Level Rise EstimatesWill Earth's Ocean Boil Away?

Weather and climate

Methane Leaking in Utah Suggests Higher National Rate
Climate strongly affects human conflict and violence worldwide, says study
 Climate change occurring ten times faster than at any time in past 65 million years
Climate extremes are 'unprecedented'
Study Questions Nature's Ability to 'Self-Correct' Climate Change
Arctic Methane Claims Questioned
 Santa's workshop not flooded -- but lots of melting in the Arctic
 Higher levels of air pollution reduced frequency of North Atlantic hurricanes for most of 20th century
 Antarctic flood produces 'ice crater'
Environmental policy

Obama’s Remarks Offer Hope to Opponents of Oil Pipeline

Energy and transportation

Natural Gas and Its Role In the U.S. Energy Endgame
 Wind & Solar Will Need 75 Years To Produce 100% Of The Electricity America Uses In 2013
Team develops new water splitting technique that could produce hydrogen fuel
 Military Report: America Has 'Misguided' Fixation With Domestic Drilling
 If you care about the environment, you should welcome natural gas fracking
 New Study Finds Natural Gas Can Help To Cut Carbon Emissions But Raises Cautions
 U.S. steps up natural gas exports
 Coal-Power Financing Restricted in World Bank Energy Policy 
India to Eclipse China as World’s Coal Power, Buoying BHP
FirstEnergy to shut two Pennsylvania coal power plants
 New capacitors to improve electric vehicles
 The End of Car Culture
 Circulatory System Keeps Sunny Windows Cool
Water

Environmentalists Say Oil and Gas Waste Water Still Discharged into Allegheny River
 How Prevalent Is Methane In Pennsylvania's Drinking Water?
John Hanger's Facts of The Day: Gasland 2 And The Dimock Water Line: The Real Story
Pennsylvania USGS Threatened and Endangered Streamgage Stations

Chemical concerns, radiation, waste management, recycling

Masses of plastic particles found in Great Lakes
 Heavy cell phone use linked to oxidative stress
 Higher Cancer Incidences Found in Regions Near Refineries and Plants That Release Benzene
 Researchers Find Cancer Risks Double When Two Carcinogens Present at 'Safe' Levels
 Distant Quakes Trigger Tremors at U.S. Waste-Injection Sites, Says Study
 DOJ & Arkansas sue, as emails show Exxon misled public about oil spill contamination
New Analysis Sheds Light on the Links Between Chemicals in Our Body and Income

Agriculture and food, livestock and pets

World's first lab-grown burger is eaten in London
 Diets of Pregnant Women Contain Harmful, Hidden Toxins
 Food Fraud: Labels on What We Eat Often Mislead
Feds Give Horse Slaughterhouse Green Light
U.S. Approves a Label for Meat From Animals Fed a Diet Free of Gene-Modified Products
 A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA
 Hog Producers Battling to Contain Virus That Has Killed Piglets by the Thousands
 Food and Drug Administration to set new limits on arsenic in apple juice
 Why Refined Carbs May Cause Food Cravings
 Why Dark Coffee Is Easier on Your Stomach
American Dog Breeds Hail From Pre-Columbian Times
Health and medicine, human behavior

Pa. Senate panel approves Medicaid expansion bill
Crucial Rule Is Delayed a Year for Obama’s Health Law
UN should be accountable for Haiti cholera: study
The Koch Brothers' Advertising Campaign
 One Simple Guideline That Could Reduce America's High Infant Mortality Rate
 American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World
Length of Human Pregnancies Can Vary Naturally by as Much as Five Weeks
 Breastfeeding duration appears associated with intelligence later in life
Federal report shows drop in proportion of children in US population
Scientists Seek to Rein In Diagnoses of Cancer
 Low-Dose Aspirin Cuts Colon Cancer in Women
    More info: Aspirin May Lower Women's Colon Cancer Risk
Studying Tumors Differently, in Hopes of Outsmarting Them
Researchers find that proteins involved in immunity potentially cause cancer
 Changes in Cell Shape May Lead to Metastasis, Not the Other Way Around
Link Between Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Increased Prostate Cancer Risk Confirmed
Eating Right, Exercise May Help Prostate Cancer Patients Reduce Risk of Aggressive Tumors
Study finds inverse link between cancer, Alzheimer's
 Study links vitamin D deficiency to accelerated aging of bones
 Do Clinical Trials Work?
 New study confirms need for state smoke-free laws
 Report: US adult smoking rate dips to 18 percent
Why I Donated My Stool
 A Disease Without a Cure Spreads Quietly in the West
The Growing Battle Over How to Treat Lyme Disease
 Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others?
 Scientists Fabricate Rudimentary Human Livers
 Number One Source for New Teeth
 Young girl given bio-engineered windpipe dies
 Evidence of Nerve Damage in some Fibromyalgia Patients
 Fresh Fuel Reignites Asperger's Debate
 Possible Blood Test for Alzheimer's Disease?
 Injuries from teen fighting deal a blow to IQ
 Being a Lifelong Bookworm May Keep You Sharp in Old Age
 Contact lens gives telescopic vision
 Late Bedtimes and Less Sleep May Lead to Weight Gain in Healthy Adults
Age Affects How Married Couples Handle Conflict

Education

Ball State University hires high-profile supporter of intelligent design
Law

U.S. tells agents to cover up use of wiretap program
 New Jersey Supreme Court Restricts Police Searches of Phone Data
 In Major Ruling, Court Orders Times Reporter to Testify
 Spygate Lawsuit Accuses NSA of Unconstitutional 'Dragnet Electronic Surveillance'
 Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Part of Voting Rights Act
Federal judge again blocks Wisconsin's new abortion law
 States Eye Voting Obstacles in Wake of High-Court Ruling
 More states move to ban foreign law in courts
 Federal judge turns down bid by Guantanamo hunger-strikers to end force-feeding
 Chinese firm accused of stealing US software
 US limbo for Nazi suspects ordered out
 Obama Remark Is Complicating Military Trials
 A life sentence… for pot?
Same-sex couple marries outside Philly despite ban
    Update: Pa. sues to stop issuance of gay marriage licenses
 Where's the Beef?—The Challenges of Obesity Lawsuits
Patent life: how the Supreme Court fell short
Archeology, anthropology, art and history

Neanderthals shared speech and language with modern humans, study suggests
 Why We "Got Milk"
 Monogamy’s Boost to Human Evolution
 Found after 10,000 years: the world’s first calendar
 Farming was so Nice, It was Invented at Least Twice
Mysterious Pair Buried With Flowers—Oldest Example Yet
 UK: Two 6,000-Year-Old 'Halls of the Dead' Unearthed
 Slave Shackle, More Found On Blackbeard's Ship
 The secret history of the Bill of Rights
Was James Buchanan really the worst president?

National security, defense

 NSA program, XKeyscore, collects 'nearly everything a user does on the Internet'
    Related: Concerns over NSA prompt Wikimedia to speed up using HTTPS by default
NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ
 Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security
U.S. Considers Faster Pullout in Afghanistan
 A brand-new U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan. And nobody to use it
 Key US missile interceptor test fails, Pentagon says
 X-47B Completes First-Ever Carrier-Based Arrested Landing
 Japan launches largest warship since World War II
Japan vows to help Philippines amid China sea row
 Somali Shebab extremists kill two of their own chiefs: spokesman
 US spy operation manipulates social media
Résumé Shows Snowden Honed Hacking Skills

Astronomy and cosmology, spaceflight

Perseid fireballs are already arriving!
Sun Will Flip Its Magnetic Field Soon
 Sun's 2013 Solar Activity Peak Is Weakest in 100 Years
 The Moon's Mystery: Scientists Debate How it Formed
 Mars' Once Thick Atmosphere Now Kaput
 Red Dwarf Stars May Destroy Possibility Of Life In Their Systems
    Related: 'Water-Trapped' Worlds: Life Around a Cool Star
 Baby Star Biggest Ever?
 Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected
Astronomers Discovery a Graveyard for Comets
 Comet ISON Blazes with Distant Galaxies in Stunning Hubble Photo
    Related: Comet ISON May Disappoint During November Flyby
 
Physics, chemistry and materials science, mathematics

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