Egypt's Locust Plague Threatens Israel
by Scott Neuman
An Egyptian scientist says some 20 swarms have invaded the country in the past three months and more are waiting in the wings.
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Study Finds Climate Change To Open Arctic Sea Routes By 2050
by Scott Neuman
Researchers simulate changes in sea ice and determine that regular ocean passages will be possible by mid-century.
Caught For Fins, Sharks Die At Unsustainable Rate, Study Finds
by Dana Farrington
The study estimates that 100 million sharks are killed globally every year. Shark populations are especially vulnerable because they do not reproduce quickly or early on in life. New protections are up for consideration at an international conference Sunday.
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SpaceX Reports Problem With Dragon Capsule
by Scott Neuman
SpaceX founder Elon Musk says the resupply mission to the space station experienced a thruster problem, but it has been fixed.
Highest Bidder Will Get DNA Pioneer's Nobel Medal
by Scott Neuman
The medal, along with other items that belonged to the late Francis Crick, will be auctioned on April 10-11 in New York.
Scientists Trace Origin Of Destructive Russia Meteor
by Scott Neuman
The Chelyabinsk meteor was part of a group of Earth-crossing objects known as Apollo asteroids, scientists believe.
Underwater Hunger Artist: Giant Isopod Fasts For 4 Years
From Japan comes news of a giant isopod that knows all there is to know about the hunger game. How else to explain the fasting behavior of the animal that, his minders say, hasn't eaten in more than 1,500 days? The male giant isopod, known simply as No. 1, last ate on Jan. 2, 2009 — or, to put it in perspective, 18 days before President Obama began his first term.
Scientists May Have Uncovered Ancient Microcontinent
by Scott Neuman
Scientists believe a long-lost land mass, sandwiched between the land masses that make up today's India and Madagascar, was lost on the sea tens of millions of years ago.
Attack By Chondrite: Scientists ID Russian Meteor
The meteor that caused at least 1,000 injuries in Russia after a startling and powerful daytime explosion one week ago has been identified as a chondrite, the most common type of meteor that falls on Earth. But that hasn't stopped a black-market economy from developing around the fragments.
Aquarium Dumping Linked To Giant Tahoe Goldfish
by Scott Neuman
The giant fish in Lake Tahoe are thought to be spawning and schooling after being dumped there by aquarium owners.
Japan: Probe Of Battery Fire On Boeing 787 Finds Improper Wiring
by Scott Neuman
Japan says an auxiliary battery was improperly connected to the main battery that overheated, forcing an emergency landing.
The Science Of Why Sandy Is Such A Dangerous Storm
by Jon Hamilton and Rob Stein
Hurricanes often weaken as they travel north across colder water and approach land. But Sandy hasn't. One reason is that it's expected to change from a tropical storm powered by warm ocean water to something more like a winter storm powered by temperature and pressure differences in the atmosphere.
A Hurricane Once More, Sandy Defies The Rules
by Jon Hamilton
It's still unclear whether Sandy, which was both downgraded then upgraded early Saturday morning, will be a devastating storm or just a bad one. It is clear, however, that Sandy will be remembered as the storm that broke all the rules and baffled the nation's top weather forecasters.
Chemistry Nobel Goes To Scientists Who Studied Body's Receptors
by Mark Memmott
Because about half of all drugs act on the receptors that let humans sense their environment, the scientists' work has been incredibly important for the development of pharmaceuticals.
French And American Scientists Share Physics Nobel
by Mark Memmott
Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the United States have been honored for their work on the interaction between life and matter — in particular, the "fundamental interactions between light particles and matter."
British, Japanese Researchers Win Nobel Prize In Medicine
by Catherine Laidlaw
John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka discovered that mature and specialized cells "can be reprogrammed to become immature cells capable of developing into all tissues of the body," according to the Nobel committee.
Streams Of Water Once Flowed On Mars; NASA Says Photos Prove It
NASA's Curiosity rover has found definitive proof that water once ran across the surface of Mars, the agency announced today. NASA scientists say that new photos from the rover show rocks that were smoothed and rounded by water. The rocks are in a large canyon and nearby channels that were cut by flowing water, making up an alluvial fan.
Touchdown: Space Shuttle Endeavour Lands In Los Angeles
Riding piggy-back atop a Boeing 747, the shuttle performed a fly-by at several iconic spots, from Malibu and Santa Monica to the Getty Center, the Griffith Observatory, and Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Monkey, New To Science, Found In Central Africa
by Scott Neuman
A scientist discovered the first lesula specimen being kept as a pet in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2007.
Earthly Clay Deposits Said To Debunk Ancient Oceans Of Mars
by Scott Neuman
A French study of clay formation in the South Pacific islands casts doubt on how scientists have long believed similar clays were deposited on Mars.
