[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 2-5-10

Sun Feb 7 18:25:26 PST 2010

Good Evening Everyone,

Below is this week's edition.  Enjoy!

Steve Detwiler

Weekly Science Report
February 5, 2010

“You’re playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in all of us, in everyone.”
Marianne Williamson

News Articles

Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies

Rotting fish yield fossil clues 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8488179.stm

Birds Got Too Fat to Fly After Dinosaurs Vanished?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/10201-extinct-giant-birds-flight-dinosaurs/

No (Primordial) Soup for You: Origins of Life Were Not what you Think
http://news.discovery.com/earth/no-primordial-soup-for-you-origins-of-life-were-not-what-you-think.html

Survival of the fittest theory: Darwinism's limits
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527466.100-survival-of-the-fittest-theory-darwinisms-limits.html

China dinosaur footprints found inZhucheng 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8502076.stm

Found: The first ever animal trails
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18479-found-the-first-ever-animal-trails.html

Polish scientists say 3 Neanderthal teeth found
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/world/story/997118.html

Ancient crocodile relative likely food source for Titanoboa
http://www.physorg.com/news184348206.html

Ancient and General History

Archaeological Findings Highlight Syria Role in Human Civilization
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201001304589/Travel/archaeological-findings-highlight-syria-role-in-human-civilization.html

Early draft of the Constitution found in Phila.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20100202_Early_draft_of_the_Constitution_found_in_Phila_.html

DNA Testing on 2,000-Year-Old Bones in Italy Reveal East Asian Ancestry
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201171756.htm

Native Americans First Tamed Turkeys 2,000 Years Ago
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/native-americans-turkeys-domestication.html

Long lost theory on Silbury Hill is uncovered
http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/4884791.Long_lost_theory_on_Silbury_Hill_is_uncovered/

Uncovering an Ancient Civilization
http://www.gwu.edu/explore/gwtoday/aroundtheworld/uncoveringanancientcivilization

Feb. 3, 1468: Closing the Book on Gutenberg
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/02/0203gutenberg-dies

Iranians celebrate ancient Persian fire fest
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35170156/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Rewriting History
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_features?id=161590514

14-year-old confirmed as UK's youngest WWII death
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_britain_youngest_casualty

How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/05/Obama.theologian/index.html?hpt=C2

US encyclopedia sorry for Irish history snafu
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ireland_mangled_history

65,000-Year-Old Language Goes Extinct 
http://news.discovery.com/human/the-65000-year-old-language-goes-extinct.html

Rule Forces WWII Vet's Body Into Lonely Burial
http://www.wftv.com/news/22425450/detail.html

Mystery reopens as remains of Everest victim Andrew Irvine 'found'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7018101.ece

Researcher gave the Chumash a gift: their heritage
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ernestine31-2010jan31,0,4949712.story

British computer pioneers and their links
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8488346.stm

With stadium about to fall, is now the time to dig into Hoffa legend?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/04/new.york.hoffa/index.html?hpt=Mid

Extinct Ethnic Group Vestiges Discovered in Chihuahua
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36066

University of Arizona's tree ring lab unlocking the past
http://www.abc15.com/content/news/centralsouthernarizona/tucson/story/University-of-Arizonas-tree-ring-lab-unlocking/-6edBra4uk-ePhLKqzYMgw.cspx

Compare Aerial Images of World War II Destruction With Today in Google Earth
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/compare-aerial-images-of-wwii-destruction-with-today-in-google-earth/

Historians hope to publish 'Mein Kampf' in Germany
Juergen Baetz
Associated Press Writer
Friday, February 5, 2010; 12:55 PM 

BERLIN -- Publish Hitler's infamous memoir "Mein Kampf" in Germany? It sounds like the ultimate taboo. 

But a group of German historians is lobbying to do just that, arguing that it's necessary to get an authoritative annotated edition ready for bookshops by the time the copyright runs out in 2015, opening the way for neo-Nazi groups to publish their own versions. 

The memoir has been under a de facto publishing ban in Germany since the end of World War II, with the government body that holds the rights refusing to let anybody print it. 
Bavaria's Finance Ministry has rejected proposals by Munich's Institute for Contemporary History to publish the tome, but there has been growing support for the idea. This week, the state's science minister emerged as an energetic backer of printing a critical edition. 

"Once Bavaria's copyright expires, there is the danger of charlatans and neo-Nazis appropriating this infamous book for themselves," Wolfgang Heubisch said Thursday. 
Edith Raim, a historian at the Munich institute, envisions a thorough, academic presentation that places Hitler's work in historical context. She says that would be the best defense against those who might want to use the book to advance racist or anti-Semitic agendas. 

Raim noted that "if someone really wants to get a copy of the book, then he can do so anyway, for example over the Internet." Though widely available in the English-speaking world, the book has never been reprinted in Germany since World War II. While possession is not illegal, resale of old copies is tightly regulated, essentially limited to research purposes. 

But German copyright law dictates that any author's work enters the public domain 70 years after his or her death. In Hitler's case, that is just over five years away: the Nazi dictator killed himself in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945. 

After World War II, the Allies agreed to hand the rights to "Mein Kampf" over to the Bavarian state government. 

The Munich historians tried to initiate a similar project two years ago, but the Bavarian Finance Ministry was categorically opposed. 

While its position may be softening somewhat, it still isn't keen and says it hopes publication of "Mein Kampf" can be prevented beyond 2015 under laws against incitement to hatred. It argues that holding back the book is matter of respect for the victims of the Holocaust. 

The president of Germany's Central Council of Jews, Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch, opposes publishing the book -- but her organization's general secretary takes the opposite view. 

"I'd rather see the book with commentary than printed in a normal version," Stephan Kramer told The Associated Press. 

"I understand the survivors, but the publication is going to come anyway," Kramer said. "So we should use this opportunity." 

"It also represents a chance to demystify 'Mein Kampf,'" he added. The vast majority of Germans are sufficiently educated and responsible to read it and draw their own conclusions, he said. "The longer it remains forbidden, the more attractive it becomes." Raim and Kramer were both skeptical that a court would forbid the book's publication after 2015, as that might constitute a breach of freedom of expression. 

A similar case involving the reprint of some Nazi-era newspapers in Germany by London-based publisher Albertas Limited went through several layers of jurisdiction before a court last year essentially ruled against efforts by the Finance Ministry -- which held the rights to these documents as well -- to keep the infamous documents off the shelves. 

Historian Raim also points out that diaries by prominent Nazis like Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler are already available in Germany. 

Hitler wrote the 700-page book -- its English translation is "My Struggle" -- after he was jailed in the aftermath of the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. 

After the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s, the book became a best-seller. Copies of it were given free to every German soldier and newlywed couple. 

The book is widely available around the world in translations including English, Arabic, Russian and Japanese; Bavaria has sought to block it from publication and sale in some countries. 

Bavaria successfully defended its copyright in recent court proceedings in Poland, the Finance Ministry said. Another trial in the Czech Republic is about to start, it said. 
Last year a Spanish translation -- "Mi Lucha" -- appeared in Apple's online store as an audio book. Apple removed it immediately after learning about the Bavarian copyright, the ministry said in a statement. 

In other countries, however, the Finance Ministry couldn't hinder the book's publication due to different copyright legislation. A special case involves the U.S. and Britain, where the copyright had already been sold during Hitler's lifetime. 

Book review: 'The Last Train from Hiroshima' by Charles Pellegrino
By Joseph Kanon
Sunday, February 7, 2010; B06 

On the morning of August 6, 1945, a bomb containing 1.2 lbs. of uranium-235, the reacting portion of which measured slightly more than two teaspoons, was dropped on Hiroshima. The detonation was a matter of nanoseconds. In one 10-millionth of a second, gamma rays escaped the core at light speed, followed by a spray of neutrons. Electrons were stripped from every atom of air and "a plasma bubble began to form, producing a thermal shock that spiked hotter than the Sun's core and glowed billions of times brighter than the surface." By the time it had slowed to biological time, 3/10 of a second later, the bomb itself was gone. People on the ground were vaporized, their bodies converted into gas and desiccated carbon. Some left thermal shadows, ghosts on bleached asphalt. Away from the hypocenter, death came minutes or hours later. Some died as "alligator people," skin burned crisp by the flash, some were ripped apart by the blast, still others sickened from
 radiation poisoning and bled out. A few, miraculously, survived, saved by shock cocoons or mere, capricious chance. 

More than 60 years later, Hiroshima still has the ability to shock. It occupies a special place in our imaginations, our nightmares. Its 100,000 victims -- the round number usually used, though no one knows precisely -- and the 80,000 (again, roughly) of Nagasaki haunt us in ways that the 250,000 said to have died in the conventional fire bombings of Tokyo do not. This is no doubt unfair. There is no hierarchy of human suffering: The dead of Tokyo are just as dead (as, for that matter, are those of Dresden and Hamburg). But the tragedies and atrocities of World War II now belong to history, while Hiroshima is still part of our world, our continuing present, maybe our dreaded future. 

"The Last Train from Hiroshima" reminds us why this is so. Charles Pellegrino's account of what it was actually like on the ground in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, culled from survivors' memories and his own work in forensic archaeology, is the most powerful and detailed I have ever read. It puts flesh on the skeletons. 

Pellegrino has written about disasters before, notably the Titanic (he advised James Cameron on his film) and the eruption of Vesuvius, whose blast effects and shock cocoons eerily mirror those here. His narrative follows a large cast through the days after the explosion, and he doesn't shy away from pulp drama: The unlucky Nagasaki bombing run, with the plane out of fuel and running on fumes, is a Hollywood nail-biter. 

But the gravity of the subject anchors him. Some survivors fled Hiroshima by train (hence the title) for the supposed safety of Nagasaki, but to his credit Pellegrino exploits neither the heavy irony nor the gee-whiz aspect of this. Instead, he lets cool, scientific description produce its own shock effects. He shows us the physics of atomic destruction. It may be that what makes Hiroshima so horrifying is seeing human beings reduced to bare elements, death a matter of chemicals, not consciousness. Pellegrino describes what happens inside: iron separating from blood, an atomic refinery, bones becoming incandescent, marrow boiling away, soft tissue dissolving in Ebola-like bleeding. Nor does he ignore the time bomb of longer-term radiation poisoning, the Disease X that the American occupation authorities pretended didn't exist. 

Pellegrino doesn't address the question of whether the bombs should have been dropped ("a subject for another time"). But his accounts of the official responses that followed, almost all inadequate and callous, suggest that no one truly understood the transformative nature of what had been released. Japanese War Minister Korechika Anami, still madly ordering kamikazes to their deaths, wanted to carry on the war. His chillingly Strangelove reaction to a description of the mushroom cloud was "Would it not be wondrous for this whole nation to be destroyed like a beautiful flower?" The Americans went into a curious state of denial. Under orders of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's September 11 Committee (of 1945), Japanese survivors were not permitted to publish anything about their experiences. A later official line was "It is just another weapon, with greater physical effects than those which preceded it." 

"The Last Train from Hiroshima" makes a definitive counter-argument to anyone still foolish or mad enough to believe that. Not everything works here: With a cast this large, cross-cutting fatigue inevitably sets in, and Pellegrino's account of what happened to everyone later, the legacy, lacks the cohesion of the earlier day-by-day approach. But at its best, in the detailed account of the bombing and its aftermath, this book offers more than just effective popular history. It is a kind of reminder. We have now lived long enough with the bomb to begin to take it for granted. We no longer (thankfully) duck under desks in elementary school air raid drills. Nations join an expanding nuclear "club." We are in danger, as MacArthur's committee was, of thinking of nuclear weapons as nothing but more sophisticated bows and arrows. "The Last Train from Hiroshima" gives us, instead, a glimpse of their horror. It makes us afraid again. As we should be. 

Archaeology

Tomb of ancient China's "defense minister" unearthed in northwest China
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2010-01/29/c_13156192.htm

EKU project on depot site uncovers evidence of 700-year-old village
http://www.richmondregister.com/localnews/local_story_029201854.html

Archaeologists unearth Iron Age settlement in Kent 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8488871.stm

Could museum's gold be from ancient Troy?
http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/83184682.html

Greece: New Underwater Archaeological Site Designated Off Polyaigos Island
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1720

Mummy mystery GMC geology professor to dig into Chilean burial methods
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100131/NEWS01/1310370/1002/NEWS01

Chan Chan’s perimetrical wall restored
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=LY5RnXYm1Tg=

An ancient Roman temple, discovered in the chancel of the church of Sant Feliu Girona
http://www.barcelonareporter.com/index.php?/news/comments/an_ancient_roman_temple_discovered_in_the_chancel_of_the_church_of_sant_fel/3101100247am

Ottoman-era village reflects Jordan's layers of enduring history
http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20100129090301/Ottoman-era%20village%20reflects%20Jordan%27s%20layers%20of%20enduring%20history

Ancient Cylinder Seal
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/pittman2010.html

Roman skeleton unearthed in Sleaford
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Skeleton-key-heritage/article-1798637-detail/article.html

Pre-historic findings in Rajasthan district
http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/03/stories/2010020358960500.htm

Aviation archaeologists' Londonderry Spitfire search
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/8493764.stm

Achaemenid K'aba of Zoroaster On The Verge Of Collapse
http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=112:achaemenid-kaba-of-zoroaster-on-the-verge-of-collapse-&catid=40

Wall with Maya Seignior Glyphs Discovered at Archaeological Zone
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36101

1,500-yr old city gate discovered 
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=125099

Archaeologists stumble on 8,000-year-old skeleton in Kenyir Lake
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/2/6/nation/20100206193148&sec=nation

Cuneiform tablets, Seals and Tombs Unearthed in Syria
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201002064686/Travel/archaeological-findings-cuneiform-tablets-seals-and-tombs-unearthed-in-syria.html

Stonehenge's secret: archaeologist uncovers evidence of encircling hedges
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/04/stonehenge-hedge-discovery

Peru to resume archaeological excavations at Huaca Rajada-Sipan site in April
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=5YnugNS8fBI=

Ancient tooth enamel defects linked with premature death
http://www.dentistry.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=2527

Archaeologist uncovers role of religion in South West woollen industry
http://www.24dash.com/news/Education/2010-02-05-Archaeologist-uncovers-role-of-religion-in-South-West-woollen-industry

Hidden Wrecks Revealed
http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/features/Hidden-Wrecks-Revealed.4926218.jp

4 Thousand Year Archaeological Cemeteries Discovered in Syria
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201002054680/Related-news-from-Syria/4-thousand-year-archaeological-cemeteries-discovered-in-syria.html

Bronze brooch rises from the ashes
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0204/1224263734175.html

Search for Columba's monastery
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Search-for--Columba39s-monastery.6041441.jp

Extraordinary 1,700 Year Old Sarcophagus Cover on View in Israel
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36046

Over 100 objects detected within Nikwasi Mound
http://www.maconnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6291&Itemid=34

'Moon site' handed heritage status
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100130/tsc-moon-site-handed-heritage-status-4b158bc.html

Bolivian archaeologists search for ancient DNA in mummies
http://english.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20100204/101406.shtml

Century-old whisky found in Antarctic
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35259897/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Egyptology

Experience: I discovered pharaoh's gold
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/30/i-discovered-pharaoh-gold

Lifestyles of the rich and famous... Egyptians
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/features/lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous-egyptians-1878609.html

Lecture reveals history behind ancient Egyptian pottery
http://media.www.trumanindex.com/media/storage/paper607/news/2010/01/28/Trulife/Lecture.Reveals.History.Behind.Ancient.Egyptian.Pottery-3859280.shtml

Egypt tightens penalties for relics robbers, smugglers
http://www.france24.com/en/20100201-egypt-tightens-penalties-relics-robbers-smugglers

Egypt's Antiquities Chief Unveils Renovations at Oldest Monastery
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36063

Egypt to soon announce King Tut DNA test results
By PAUL SCHEMM
The Associated Press
Sunday, January 31, 2010; 11:42 AM 

CAIRO -- Egypt will soon reveal the results of DNA tests made on the world's most famous ancient king, the young Pharaoh Tutankhamun, to answer lingering mysteries over his lineage, the antiquities department said Sunday. 

Speaking at a conference, archaeology chief Zahi Hawass said he would announce the results of the DNA tests and the CAT scans on Feb. 17. The results will be compared to those made of King Amenhotep III, who may have been Tutankamun's grandfather. 

The effort is part of a wider program to check the DNA of hundreds of mummies to determine their identities and family relations. The program could help determine Tutankhamun's family lineage, which has long been a source of mystery. 

The identity of Tut's parents is not firmly known. Many experts believe he is the son of Akhenaten, the 18th Dynasty pharaoh who tried to introduce monotheism to ancient Egypt almost 3,500 years ago, and one of Akhenaten's queens, Kiya. But others have suggested he was the son of a lesser known pharaoh who followed Akhenaten. 

Tutankhamun was one of the last kings of Egypt's 18th Dynasty and ruled during a crucial, turmoil-filled period when Akhenaten's monotheism was ended and powers were returned to the priests of ancient Egypt's multiple deities. 

Hawass has announced ambitious plans for DNA tests on Egyptian mummies, including tests on all royal mummies and the nearly two dozen unidentified ones stored in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. He has said the tests may show that some royal mummies on display are not who archaeologists thought them to be. 

One of his top goals is to find the mummy of Nefertiti, Akhenaten's wife, the queen legendary for her beauty. 

Hawass has long rejected DNA testing on Egyptian mummies by foreign experts, and only recently allowed such projects on condition they be done exclusively by Egyptians. A $5 million DNA lab was created at the Egyptian Museum, with funding from the Discovery Channel. 
Sunday's statement also said a robot would be sent into the Great Pyramid of Khufu to discover the secrets of its hidden passageways. 

In a widely publicized television show in September 2002, a robot designed by National Geographic explored some air shafts in the pyramid of Khufu, discovering secret doors with copper handles. 

General Science

U.S. Air Force building supercomputer from PS3s
http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/u-s-air-force-building-supercomputer-from-ps3s/1387199

Next in military technology: Unmanned Black Hawk?
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/01/next-in-military-technology-unmanned-black-hawk/

New device could let humans walk on walls
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35205518/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/

The Pursuit of Intelligence in Computer Science
http://news.discovery.com/tech/pursuit-computer-intelligence.html

Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything
http://www.physorg.com/news184310039.html

Fishy sensors could keep submersibles out of trouble
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527455.500-fishy-sensors-could-keep-submersibles-out-of-trouble.html

US Troops In Afghanistan to Get Sensors That See Through Walls
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/us-troops-get-wall-penetrating-sensors-afghanistan

Are Insects the First Step In Creating A.I.?
http://news.discovery.com/tech/insects-first-step-artificial-computers.html

Carbon Based Chips May One Day Replace Silicon Transistors
http://www.physorg.com/news184420861.html

Nature's hot green quantum computers revealed
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527464.000-natures-hot-green-quantum-computers-revealed.html

Electric planes could transform how we fly
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35258761/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/

Unmanned U.S. frigates to stalk submarines (w/ Video)
http://www.physorg.com/news184487623.html

The Navy's New, Digital-Age Flagship in a Box
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4344850.html

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

Glasgow scientists predict mass of new particle
http://www.physorg.com/news183708010.html

Endeavour to bring high-tech 'sunroom' to ISS
http://www.physorg.com/news183997323.html

What alien worlds orbit our nearest star?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18451-what-alien-worlds-orbit-our-nearest-star.html

Branson goes 20,000 leagues under the sea
http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/01/technology/richard_branson_underwater_plane/index.htm?hpt=C2

Hubble, sky survey catch rare asteroid crash, NASA says
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/02/asteroids.collide.nasa/index.html?hpt=T2

Jason-3 sea-surface height mission secures funds 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8491116.stm

NASA's 7 New Space Pioneers are Companies
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/02/tech/main6167640.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesSecondary

Crystals in meteorite harder than diamonds
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35198934/ns/technology_and_science-science/

NASA's Far-Out New Plans
http://www.space.com/news/nasa-far-out-plans-100201.html

Exoplanet gas spotted from Earth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8493674.stm

Saturn mission 'extended again' 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8497095.stm

Powering cube satellites
http://www.physorg.com/news184420007.html

New technique helps search for another Earth
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/sc_afp/spaceastronomyexoplanets_20100203190416

Lunar eclipse: US retreat leaves China leading way in race to return to moon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/02/lunar-us-china-race-moon

Professor's alien life 'seed' theory claimed 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/8491398.stm

"Big Bang" collider may reveal mystery particle
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100203/sc_nm/us_science_cern

Robonaut 2: Coming Soon to Space Stations and Assembly Lines Near You
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/05/robonaut-2-coming-soon-to-space-stations-and-assembly-lines-near-you/

NASA webcam airs ‘reality show’ from space
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35258282/ns/technology_and_science-space/

First breath: Earth's billion-year struggle for oxygen
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527461.100-first-breath-earths-billionyear-struggle-for-oxygen.html

Smart dust could give early warning of space storms
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527465.700-smart-dust-could-give-early-warning-of-space-storms.html

New Look at Big Bang Radiation Refines Age of Universe
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/nasa-wmap-universe-age/

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

Levitating magnet may yield new approach to clean energy
http://www.physorg.com/news183544566.html

Power from down under
http://www.physorg.com/news183735235.html

UN climate panel based claims on student essay: report
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100130/sc_afp/unclimatewarmingipccbritain_20100130235401

Water vapour caused one-third of global warming in 1990s, study reveals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/29/water-vapour-climate-change

Molecular Venus flytrap could munch nuclear waste
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527455.300-molecular-venus-flytrap-could-munch-nuclear-waste.html

Japanese Shredder Turns Old TPS Reports Into Fresh Rolls of Toilet Paper
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-01/white-goat-will-shred-tps-reports-and-spit-out-toilet-paper

Modified Eucalyptus to Transform Forests
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/02/tech/main6166930.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines

Pre-namaz wash goes eco-friendly
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Pre-namaz-wash-goes-eco-friendly/articleshow/5525652.cms

China doubles wind power in 1 year
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/2010-02-03-windpower_N.htm

Copenhagen - the Munich of our times? 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8490935.stm

Arctic Degrading Faster than First Thought
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/05/tech/main6178000.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines

Algae Use Physics Trick in Photosynthesis
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/05/tech/main6177756.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines

Physicist proposes method to teleport energy
http://www.physorg.com/news184597481.html

5 Sources of Alternative Energy You May Not Have Heard Of
http://www.physorg.com/news184508468.html

Scientists grow solar cell components in tobacco plants
http://www.physorg.com/news183999312.html

Ex-navy chief denies Russia dumped nuclear waste in Baltic Sea
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100205/sc_afp/russiaswedenpoliticsnuclearenvironment_20100205170753

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

Genetically Modified Tomatoes Can Last 45 Days on the Shelf
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/02/genetically-modified-tomatoes-can-last-45-days-on-the-shelf/

Blue whales are singing in a lower key
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-whale1-2010feb01,0,6269463.story

Seeing the songs of whales 
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/01/seeing-the-songs-of-whales.php

Close encounters with Japan's 'living fossil' 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8497330.stm

Brain Waves Allow Vegetative Patients to 'Talk'
http://news.discovery.com/human/vegetative-patients-brain-communication.html

Scientists find two compounds that lay the foundation for a new class of AIDS drug
http://www.physorg.com/news184437271.html

Plant derivative could help refine cancer treatment
http://www.physorg.com/news184436824.html

Alzheimer's can be prevented
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/03/alzheimers-dementia-research-funding

Test of "artificial pancreas" offers diabetes hope
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100205/sc_nm/us_diabetes_pancreas

DARPA Wants to Override Evolution to Make Immortal Synthetic Organisms
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/darpas-mad-vision-create-kill-switches-inside-immortal-synthetic-organisms

Other

Is calling E.T. a smart move?
http://www.physorg.com/news183965163.html

How to Stop Time (Hint: First, Blow Up a Clock)
http://discovermagazine.com/interactive/how-to-stop-time-videos

Digital doomsday: the end of knowledge
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527451.300-digital-doomsday-the-end-of-knowledge.html

Latvian ghost town auctioned off for $3.1 million
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_re_eu/eu_latvia_town_for_sale

The Real Rules for Time Travelers
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/mar/02-the-real-rules-for-time-travelers/

Ultra-Precise Quantum-Logic Clock Puts Old Atomic Clock to Shame
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/quantum-logic-atomic-clock/

Could we soon be staying in floating hotels in the future?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/03/future.travel.space.aircruise/index.html?hpt=C2

Additional Informational

Pictures: "Mythical" Temple Found in Peru
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/photogalleries/100129-peru-temple-mythical-naylamp-pictures/?now=2010-01-29-00:01#025754_600x450.jpg

Fight, Fight, Fight: The History of Human Aggression
http://www.livescience.com/history/human-aggression-history-100130.html

Welcome to the Milky Way Transit Authority: Big Pic
http://news.discovery.com/space/milky-way-transit-authority.html

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