[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 3-5-10

[Steve Detwiler]

Weekly Science Report
March 5, 2010
 
“The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.”
President John F. Kennedy
 
News Articles
 
Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies
 
Early Humans Used Brain Power, Innovation and Teamwork to Dominate the Planet
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=humans-brain-power-origins
 
'Pompeii-Like' Excavations Tell Us More About Toba Super-Eruption
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100227170841.htm
 
Scientists reveal driving force behind evolution
http://www.physorg.com/news186311100.html
 
Woolly mammoths resurfacing in Siberia
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-woolly-mammoth2-2010mar02,0,2703266.story
 
Dinosaur's oldest relative found
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8547735.stm
 
Etched ostrich eggs illustrate human sophistication 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8544332.stm
 
Frozen in Stone: An Ancient Snake Poised to Devour Dinosaur Eggs
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/02/frozen-in-stone-an-ancient-snake-poised-to-devour-dinosaur-eggs/
 
Modern man found to be generally monogamous, moderately polygamous
http://www.physorg.com/news186750900.html
 
Anthropologists say fossil was not 'missing link'
http://www.physorg.com/news186758868.html
 
Zoologger: The largest arthropod to prowl the land
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18600-zoologger-the-largest-arthropod-to-prowl-the-land.html
 
Scientists urge full-scale excavation of 'Vero Man' archaeological site
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/mar/04/scientists-urge-full-scale-excavation-of-vero/
 
It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100304/sc_nm/us_dinosaurs_asteroid
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Ancient and General History
 
Descartes Letter Found, Therefore It Is
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/books/25descartes.html
 
Urban Legend Buster- Video
http://news.discovery.com/videos/news-urban-legend-buster.html
 
Debunked atom bomb book selling on Amazon
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_en_ot/us_atom_bomb_book
 
French officials arrest widow of Rwandan leader
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_rwanda
 
At 74, Fairfax resident, a former Somali prime minister, may face war-crimes lawsuit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/01/AR2010030102059_pf.html
 
US Marines land on Iwo Jima to mark anniversary
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_iwo_jima
 
How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs
http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=36&Issue=02&ArticleID=06&Page=0&UserID=0&
 
Retelling the history of New Mexico's Native Americans
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/march/wilcox-native-american-030310.html
 
Experts pin hopes on public to decipher 500 year old English inscription discovered in church
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254777/Scholars-discover-inscription-believed-earliest-form-English-ask-public-help-deciphering-it.html
 
Field Museum archaeologists amend the written history of China's first emperor
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/fm-fma021710.php
 
Lost Jewish tribe 'found in Zimbabwe' 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm
 
Da Vinci's Huge Horse Statue Proven Feasible
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/leonardo-davinci-cavallo-statue.html
 
45 years after march, Selma priest remembers Bloody Sunday
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/07/selma.march.anniversary/index.html?hpt=C1
 
 
 
 
How diplomat's paperwork saved lives in Holocaust
By CLAUDIA TORRENS and RANDY HERSCHAFT
The Associated Press
Sunday, February 28, 2010; 12:01 AM 
 
NEW YORK -- It took Ina Polak 35 years to discover the dusty piece of paper that probably saved her and her family in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 
 
It wasn't until she was cleaning her mother's New York City apartment following her death in 1980 that she discovered the document listing her, her sister and parents. It was a Salvadoran citizenship certificate. 
 
"My first reaction was 'Oh, now I understand!'" said Polak, who is 87. 
She and her family were Dutch Jews, with nothing to connect them with the distant Central American country of El Salvador. Yet the certificate dated 1944 became their lifeline, thanks to a man named George Mantello. 
 
Mantello, a Jew born in what is now Romania, was one of a handful of diplomats who during World War II saved thousands of Jews and others on the run from the Nazis by giving them visas or citizenships, often without their governments' knowledge. 
 
They were men such as Hiram Bingham IV, a U.S. consular official in Marseille, France who issued visas and other travel documents that are credited with helping to rescue about 2,000 people; or Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese envoy in Lithuania, thought to have saved 3,500; or Dr. Feng Shan Ho, the Chinese consul in Vienna whose visas got 18,000 Jews to safety in Shanghai. 
Best known of all is Raoul Wallenberg of Sweden, whose efforts probably contributed to saving 90,000 Jewish lives in Hungary before he vanished in what became an abiding mystery of the Holocaust. 
 
Now the work of Mantello is getting fresh attention as scholars dig into newly released files and piece together the lives he saved by gaming the diplomatic bureaucracy. 
 
Working as first secretary in the Salvadoran consulate in Geneva, Switzerland, Mantello used a network of contacts to issue papers to Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe between 1942 and 1944 -up to 10,000 documents, according to his son, Enrico Mantello. 
 
The same figure is given by historian David Kranzler, who published a book about the diplomat in 2000 called "The Man who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz" that also describes Mantello's critical role in publicizing the so-called Auschwitz Protocol, a description of the Nazis' biggest death camp by two escaped inmates. 
 
It is not known how many lives were saved by Mantello's documents - "definitively, hundreds," says Mordecai Paldiel, a Holocaust studies professor at Yeshiva University in New York. A letter from Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat who worked with Mantello, speaks of "thousands" saved. 
Without the Salvadoran certificate, Polak and her family would likely have been worked to death in Bergen-Belsen or sent to other camps or the salt mines. Instead they were moved to a small camp enclosure full of Jews with Latin American documents, and finally put on a train out of Bergen-Belsen along with 2,400 people and were rescued by US troops in April 1945. 
 
"Back then," Polak said, if a German official "saw a paper, and if it had the right stamp on it and the signature, then it was legal. People with these papers were eligible, in the Germans' eyes, to be sent to a neutral country, to a better camp." 
 
Mantello sent out notarized copies of the certificates and kept the originals, more than 1,000 of which were found in a suitcase in a Geneva basement in 2005 and donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., by his son three years later. 
 
Now museum researchers are trying to trace recipients of the certificates to get an idea of how many of them actually saved lives and learn the full scope of Mantello's rescue efforts. The citizenship certificates can be viewed on the museum Web site. 
 
Judith Cohen, director of photo archives, says she has discovered how two Dutch families were released from Bergen-Belsen in January 1945 thanks to the documents, sent first to Switzerland and then to North Africa to be exchanged for German prisoners. 
 
"We know that Salvadoran certificates actually helped pull someone out of the concentration camp and send them to freedom," said Cohen. While calling it "a very small footnote to history," she notes the Jewish saying that "he who saves just one person is like he who has saved the whole world." 
In a speech last year, Cohen noted that "even when the rescue attempts were unsuccessful, the mere existence of the certificates proves that people cared for others and tried to extend help to friends under occupation to a greater extent than is commonly acknowledged." 
And the areas targeted by the rescuers helps fill in another blank in Holocaust history by indicating "who knew what when" about what was going on under the Nazi thumb, she said. 
After the war, Polak married a fellow survivor, Jaap Polak. She believes that maybe friends of her father gave Mantello the name of her family. 
 
Her father, Abraham Soep, was a diamond manufacturer in Amsterdam, and probably received the citizenship certificate while the family were in a Dutch transit Nazi camp before being sent to Bergen-Belsen (the same camp where another girl from Holland, the diarist Anne Frank, perished). 
 
Citizenship papers entitled their holders to sometimes wear their own clothes instead of prison uniforms and to live in a separate section of Bergen-Belsen. 
 
The difference was critical, said Paul Shapiro, director of the Washington museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. "Remember that if you were in the wrong part of the camp, you were dead." 
 
While Wallenberg's activities were initiated and supported by his government, other diplomats acted against their countries' immigration policies or interpreted them "very, very, liberally," says Yeshiva University's Paldiel, who wrote a book titled "Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust." 
In her speech, Cohen said diplomats from Portugal and Romania, as well as representatives of the Vatican and the International Red Cross, helped spread Mantello's documents. 
 
Those who made a sustained effort to save Jews numbered just "a few dozen" out of thousands of diplomats stationed in Europe, says Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C. 
 
As a Jew, Mantello might himself have easily fallen victim to the Nazis. He had held honorary diplomatic positions for the El Salvador government starting in 1939, and had changed his name from Mandel to the more Spanish-sounding Mantello. But he was arrested by the Germans in Belgrade in 1942. He managed to escape to Geneva where he became first secretary of the Salvadoran consulate, and set about saving fellow Jews. 
 
Col. Jose Arturo Castellanos, the consul general, allowed him to issue the certificates, and only later did his government find out about it. El Salvador wasn't a neutral country at the time - it was backing the Allies, so Mantello had to use emissaries to distribute the certificates. 
 
According to the Washington museum, copies of the certificates produced by Mantello and his team of Swiss volunteer clerks were sent to almost every country in occupied Europe - and even into Auschwitz - with varying degrees of success. 
 
The Germans, for their part, had a use for Jewish prisoners with such documents - to trade for German nationals held in Latin America or the U.S., said Medoff. 
"So even when the Germans suspected these documents might not be authentic, they often did not care because they considered these prisoners to be very useful," he said. 
In January 1945, 800 Germans who had been held in the Americas were exchanged for 800 American and Latin American citizens in Germany, and among them were 149 Jews from Bergen-Belsen with Latin American documents, said Medoff. 
 
Robert Fisch, a Minneapolis pediatrician, remembers seeing a citizenship certificate in his house in Budapest in 1944. 
 
"My mother told me, even wrote, 'don't give out this paper. It is very important,'" said Fisch, now 84. 
 
While his work on citizenship papers stayed discreet, his role in publicizing the Auschwitz Protocol led to Swiss public protests, prayers and angry headlines. The worldwide protests they stirred may have played a part in the Hungarian government's decision to temporarily suspend deportations of Jews to Auschwitz. 
 
According to Paldiel, Mantello is insufficiently appreciated because he was an outsider of the Jewish organizations, a businessman who created his own network of volunteers and emissaries. After the war he had difficulty continuing his diplomatic career, and was accused of being financially corrupt, but charges were dropped after an investigation. 
 
One man who appreciated his efforts - and said so in writing - was Lutz, the Swiss diplomat in Budapest who delivered many of Mantello's documents to Jews. 
 
"You can be assured that ... you rendered a valuable service which will get you the thanks -as soon as normal conditions again prevail in this world - of thousands of human beings whose lives you saved," he wrote in a letter stored at the Washington museum. 
 
Enrico Mantello, now 80 and living in Geneva and Rome, said he remembers his father issuing one certificate after the other. 
 
"He was a very driving, energetic person. He needed very little sleep," he said. "He was passionate, he did not take no for an answer." 
 
But after the war and until his death in 1992, Mantello was a haunted man. 
Among those to whom he sent citizenship papers were his parents in what then was Hungary, but they arrived one or two days too late, and his mother and father, along with the rest of the Jews in their town, were sent to Auschwitz and murdered. 
 
"It is a horrible, sad irony," said Cohen, the museum researcher. "The certificates were saving people all over Europe, and despite his efforts he was unable to save his own parents." 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Civil rights-era killings yield secrets to FBI probe
By Carrie Johnson
Sunday, February 28, 2010; A01 
 
Three years after the FBI pledged to investigate more than 100 unsolved civil rights killings, the agency is ready to close all but a handful. Investigators say they have solved most of the mysteries behind the cases, but few will result in indictments, given the passage of decades, the deaths of prime suspects and the challenge of gathering evidence. 
 
"There's maybe five to seven cases where we don't know who did it," said FBI Special Agent Cynthia Deitle, who is heading the bureau's effort. "Some we know; others we know but can't prove. For every other case, we got it." 
 
Even without taking cases to court, the project has filled in broad gaps in the stories of the murdered, many of whom were forgotten victims from a brutal chapter of American history. 
Officials now believe, for example, that an Alabama state trooper killed an unarmed civil rights protester in 1965, a case that helped inspire the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to march in the state. In the deaths of two North Carolina men in police custody -- one found in 1956 with a crushed skull and the other who refused medical treatment in 1960 after a heart attack -- the agency concluded that there was no federal law it could use to pursue the cases. 
 
Investigators have walked through rural cemeteries looking for clues, searched yellowed documents in government archives and interviewed witnesses, some so shattered by their experiences that they still refused to talk. Along the way, officials discovered a more complex story than they had imagined. 
 
In nearly one-fifth of the 108 cases, they learned that the deaths had no connection to the racial unrest pulsing through the South at the height of the civil rights struggle. 
 
In at least one case, the victim had been killed by a relative, but the family blamed the Ku Klux Klan. In other cases, a victim drowned or was fatally knifed in a bar fight. Two black women registering voters in the hot Mississippi summer died in a car accident. One man died under his mistress -- a bedroom secret kept for more than four decades until the bureau came calling. 
The FBI's project, which at its peak involved more than 40 agents working in cities across the South and along the Eastern Seaboard, was the agency's most focused campaign to find out what happened in the deaths. For some families, hopes of a legal reckoning have been dashed, but the investigation has produced a different kind of accounting. 
 
"These racially motivated murders are some of the greatest blemishes on our nation's history," said Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights. "We owe it to people who were all a part of this struggle to be persistent. . . . If we can solve a number of these cases, that's fantastic. But if we can bring to closure all of these cases, I think this will be well worth the effort." 
At the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., where the names of victims are etched on the walls of the organization's civil rights memorial, President Richard Cohen added, "Justice in a few of those cases is going to have to serve as a symbolic victory in all of them." 
 
Long-lost evidence
From a conference room on the third floor of the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Building in the District, the civil rights struggle continues. But four decades or longer after the deaths, nearly every aspect of the trail has gone cold. 
 
Special Agent James Hosty, a former police officer from Kansas who joined the FBI after helping capture the notorious "BTK" serial killer, has spent three years hunting down leads in a case near Atlanta. 
 
In 1946, four black sharecroppers were killed on Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton County, Georgia, prompting President Harry S. Truman to order the FBI to work round-the-clock to bring the shooters to justice. As many as two dozen people, some of them prominent members of the community, might have been involved in the deaths, investigators say. 
 
But no charges were filed -- and volumes of case files sat untouched in FBI archives in Silver Spring for decades until the investigation was reopened by Howard Hatfield, who is an assistant special agent in charge at the Atlanta office, and an agent was assigned full time to the case. 
"It basically took six to eight months to get through those records and determine who was alive or dead," Hosty said. 
 
Some of those Hosty thinks witnessed or were involved in the killings had neither a Social Security number nor any other identifier that would allow him to determine whether they are alive and could be questioned or prosecuted. 
 
The case remains unsolved, but new evidence allowed investigators to secure a search warrant in 2008, 62 years after the deadly encounter. FBI agents in Atlanta said they continue to work leads, hoping for a breakthrough from witnesses who at the time feared talking to authorities but since might have changed their minds. 
 
In many of the unsolved cases, family members or victims' rights advocates have complained about how long it has taken for the federal government to investigate and about what they say is the lack of results. But more reasonable expectations are called for by Alvin Sykes, who was part of a successful effort to have the government reopen the investigation into the 1955 killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Mississippi case that helped launch the civil rights movement. 
"From the beginning, our focus was not just to prosecute cases but to find the truth," Sykes said. "We're not disappointed, but we do expect to find a significant number of more cases through the outreach effort, a criminal manhunt to find these people, and go from there." 
 
Few legal tools
"Welcome to my headache," said Deitle, who was handpicked by the current FBI director, Robert S. Mueller III, to lead the re-energized civil rights effort. 
 
The government has scant legal tools at its disposal in prosecuting the decades-old deaths because it can use just three federal statutes on the books before 1968, when Congress passed an expansive statute governing civil rights prosecutions. 
 
The pre-1968 statutes apply in homicides only if a victim was killed on federal land; a victim was kidnapped and killed; or if an explosive device was transported across state lines with the intent to injure, according to Paige Fitzgerald, a Justice Department lawyer who played a central role in two of the cold cases that went to trial in recent years. 
 
The FBI looks for room to maneuver within the old statutes. In a Florida killing, for example, an agent was dispatched to secure Global Positioning System coordinates to determine whether the killing occurred on land once belonging to a Native American tribe. 
 
One case has drawn the agency's focused attention because it might be connected to other interstate Ku Klux Klan attacks. 
 
On Dec. 10, 1964, Frank Morris, a shoe store owner in Ferriday, La., woke to the sound of tinkling glass. He emerged from a cot at the back of the burning building with third-degree burns covering his body. Morris survived four days in a hospital, but he wasn't able to name the attackers before he died. 
 
At the time, FBI investigators found a charred finger near the crime scene that did not belong to Morris. Over the years, the finger was lost. But an agent had recorded a fingerprint, which remains in the FBI's files. 
 
"So," Deitle asked one morning last month, "who's missing a finger in Ferriday?" 
An undercover agent has been canvassing the town for a fingerless man, and the FBI lab is searching for fingerprint matches. But in the meantime, the case remains unsolved. 
 
In an FBI office in Jackson, Miss., Jenny Williams, a supervisory special agent, has instructed 11 agents working on nearly four dozen cold cases to take nothing for granted -- even reports of the demise of the prime suspects, especially when death certificates are not available. 
"We definitely don't take someone's word for it," Williams said. "We'll send people out to a cemetery. We have evidence that's a picture of a tombstone in a cemetery, old small-town family cemeteries." 
 
Special Agent Jeromy Turner walked a 300-headstone cemetery in Yazoo City, Miss., four times looking for a dead man. Relatives insisted that the man was buried in a plot there, but "I never could find him," Turner said. "Finally, I was able to locate a funeral home owner who had the death certificate that showed he was buried in that cemetery, but the family had disowned him." There was no headstone marking his grave. 
 
Among the most promising cases are those in which accomplices have not been prosecuted. That is a central focus in the killing of Louis Allen, a logger and member of the NAACP in Amite County, Miss., who was ambushed in January 1964 after years of threats. 
 
Allen's son Henry and other family members have plastered the community with posters thanking God "for anyone willing to come forward to solve this heinous crime. Anonymity promised." They are offering a $20,000 reward for information. 
 
Deitle, who helped investigate the New York Police Department shooting of immigrant Amadou Diallo 11 years ago, said the FBI effort is one of the last opportunities to investigate the dark alleys of the segregated past. 
 
"If we don't correct history, then who's going to go back through this? Who's going to fix history to make it accurate?" she asked. 
 
 
 
 




 
Archaeology
 
Master plan to restore ancient sites in Iraq
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=345659&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16
 
Pompeii to Offer Live Excavation Experience 
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/pompeii-to-offer-live-excavation-experience.html
 
Among the Ruins
http://www.physorg.com/news186419281.html
 
British-Bulgarian team to renew archaeological digs at Nicopolis
http://sofiaecho.com/2010/02/28/865980_british-bulgarian-team-to-renew-archaeological-digs-at-nicopolis?ref=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss2%2Fall-news+%28The+Sofia+Echo%29
 
Circular Base Found Corresponds to Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl Temple Location
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36528
 
Tamil inscription found
http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/28/stories/2010022854640600.htm
 
Archaeological excavations completed at Civil War mass grave in Málaga
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_25300.shtml#ixzz0hAwfIAWi
 
Exciting find for museum bosses
http://www.longridgenews.co.uk/features/Exciting-find-for-museum-bosses.6119348.jp
 
Archaeological Findings: Hellenistic Coins Discovered in Northern Syria
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201003025027/Travel/archaeological-findings-hellenistic-coins-discovered-in-northern-syria.html
 
Byway dig reveals a colorful past
http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/articles/2010/02/27/news/doc4b88d54ba95bf940746119.txt 
 
Mystery surrounds unmarked graves
http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/articles/2010/03/01/news/doc4b89f065bc7cb723477112.txt
 
Nail from Christ's crucifixion found?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7350166/Nail-from-Christs-crucifixion-found.html
 
'Templar crucifixion nail' a fantasy, says Madeiran archaeologist
http://www.examiner.com/x-32018-Strange--Mysterious-Facts-Examiner~y2010m3d4-Templar-crucifixion-nail-a-fantasy-say-Madeiran-archaeologist
 
Dynasty of Priestesses
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/eleutherna/
 
Syria's Stonehenge: Neolithic stone circles, alignments and possible tombs discovered
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/syrias-stonehenge-neolithic-stone-circles-alignments-and-possible-tombs-discovered-1914047.html
 
Wooden covers ruin stairways of Persepolis
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=215138
 
Medieval fortification uncovered at Prague Castle
http://praguemonitor.com/2010/03/01/medieval-fortification-uncovered-prague-castle
 
Archaeologists to restore Ancient Roman Stadium in Plovdiv
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1797
 
Tamil Brahmi potsherds found at urn burial site
http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/05/stories/2010030554922200.htm
 
Monuments monitored from a distance
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=69857&CultureCode=en
 
Escape route near royal harem found at Bidar Fort
http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/06/stories/2010030657990800.htm
 
Archaeologists survey Roman road
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Archaeologists-survey-Roman-road.6122591.jp
 
 





 
Egyptology
 
Spell-covered burial chamber found in Egypt's Saqqara
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6223MQ20100303
 
Sudan's land of 'black pharaohs' a trove for archaeologists
http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-rss-news/sudans-land-of-black-pharaohs-a-trove-for-archaeologists_27860.html
 
DNA Shows that KV55 Mummy Probably Not Akhenaten
http://www.kv64.info/2010/03/dna-shows-that-kv55-mummy-probably-not.html
 
Egypt retrieves prehistoric artifacts from Britain
http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item=100304152554.pqn9hhwk.php
 
Massive head of pharaoh unearthed in Egypt
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100228/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_antiquities
 






 
General Science
 
Robots to rescue soldiers
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527495.200-robots-to-rescue-soldiers.html
 
Honda's Concept Trike for the Urban Commuter
http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2010-02/hondas-concept-trike-urban-commuter
 
IBM Scientists Create Ultra-Fast Device Which Uses Light for Communication between Computer Chips
http://www.physorg.com/news186856712.html
 
Vigilance needed in nanotechnology
http://www.physorg.com/news186839917.html
 
Artificial Intelligence Brings Musicians Back From the Dead, Allowing All-Stars of All Time to Jam
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-03/ai-brings-musicians-back-dead-allowing-all-stars-all-time-jam
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences
 
Roving Mars in Award-Winning Style
http://news.discovery.com/space/roving-mars-in-award-winning-style.html
 
What of the Telescopes in Chile?
http://news.discovery.com/space/what-of-the-telescopes-in-chile.html
 
Quantum measurement precision approaches Heisenberg limit
http://www.physorg.com/news186395462.html
 
Marine Scientist Finds 'Little Ice Age' Had Dramatic Effect on Gulf
http://www.physorg.com/news186089477.html
 
World's most sensitive neutrino experiment begins
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18582-worlds-most-sensitive-neutrino-experiment-begins.html
 
Torn Apart by Its Own Tides, Massive Planet Is on a 'Death March'
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100224165221.htm
 
Suborbital Safety: Will Commercial Spaceflight Ramp Up the Risk?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4347267.html
 
NASA's Project M Puts Scientists' Avatars On the Moon
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/nasas-project-m-puts-scientists-avatars-moon
 
NASA Tests Handy-Man Space Robots For Orbital Repairs
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/nasa-tests-handy-man-space-robots-orbital-repairs
 
Hydrothermal vents sometimes colonized from afar
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/56720/title/Hydrothermal_vents_sometimes_colonized_from_afar
 
Clues to Antarctica space blast 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8547534.stm
 
Ice deposits found at Moon's pole 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8544635.stm
 
Creatures From A Distant Planet?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/03/creatures_from_a_distant_plane.html
 
Scientists wowed by data from Mars probe
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35698998/ns/technology_and_science-space/
 
Virgin Galactic to fire up SpaceShipTwo in 2011
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35698725/ns/technology_and_science-space/
 
Next Mars Probe Gets Carbon-Sniffing Tool
http://news.discovery.com/space/mars-lander-carbon-detector.html
 
Improved near-real-time tracking of 2010 El Nino reveals marine life reductions
http://www.physorg.com/news186852522.html
 
Russia faces cosmonaut shortage: official
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100303/sc_afp/russiaspacescience_20100303191038
 
Canada to boost space research
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100303/sc_afp/canadapoliticsspace_20100303204114
 
China's space station plan delayed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100303/wl_asia_afp/chinaspacestation_20100303115113
 
A measure for the multiverse
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527501.100-a-measure-for-the-multiverse.html
 
March 1, 1966: Probe Makes First Contact With Another Planet
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/03/0301venera-3-crashes-venus
 
 






 
Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources
 
Bloom Energy Server Could Bring Microgrids Online
http://news.discovery.com/tech/bloom-energy-server-could-bring-microgrids-online.html
 
U.S. turns to Sweden as model in nuclear waste storage
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-nuclear-waste21-2010feb21,0,2950379.story
 
The 4 Coolest Designs from Greener Gadgets 2010
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4347282.html
 
Bacteria Colony May Grow Nanowires to Create Giant Living Biogeobattery
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/bacteria-may-grow-nanowires-create-living-biogeobattery
 
Clean Tech: A New Way to Hasten Energy Solutions
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968480,00.html#ixzz0hAVFBvb4
 
Researchers evaluate climate fluctuations from 115,000 years ago
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=69533&CultureCode=en
 
How to Build a $1000 Fusion Reactor in Your Basement
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/extreme-universe/18-do-it-yourself-basement-fusion/
 
'World's Most Useful Tree' Provides Low-Cost Water Purification Method for Developing World
http://www.physorg.com/news186833385.html
 
Sustainable Energy bets on Ontario solar market
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100302/sc_nm/us_sustainableenergytechnologies
 
Is ARPA-E Enough to Keep the U.S. on the Cutting-Edge of a Clean Energy Revolution?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=arpa-e-keep-us-lead-in-clean-energy-revolution
 
Not Just for Fuel Anymore: Hydrocarbons Can Superconduct, Too
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=superconducting-picene
 
10 Companies Reinventing Our Energy Infrastructure
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/energycogallery/
 
Backpack Hydroelectric Plant Gives You 500 Watts on the Move
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/backpack-hydroelectric-plant/
 






 
Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences
 
New technique allows study of protein folding, dynamics in living cells
http://www.physorg.com/news186583762.html
 
The Crazies' Franken-Virus Toxins: How Scared Should We Be?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4347191.html
 
Human gut microbes hold 'second genome' 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8547454.stm
 
Bringing bison back to North American landscapes
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/uoc-bbb030110.php
 
Mineral studies advance antibacterial alternatives
http://www.physorg.com/news186858667.html
 
HIV vaccine strategy expands immune responses
http://www.physorg.com/news186845078.html
 
The brain scanner that feels your pain
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527503.400-the-brain-scanner-that-feels-your-pain.html
 
Mind-controlled prosthetics without brain surgery
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18603-mindcontrolled-prosthetics-without-brain-surgery.html
 
DNA Analysis Shows Polar Bears Have Adapted Quickly in the Past
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/polar-bear-birthday/
 
DARPA Orders Smart Robotic Terminator Hands for a Better Tomorrow
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/darpa-orders-terminator-hands-better-future
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Other
 
The Truth Is Out There . . . for 30 Days
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/28/world/main6253063.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesSecondary
 
South Korean shamans fluidly absorb cultural change
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/amon-sks022310.php
 
The Earth is flat? What planet is he on?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2010/feb/23/flat-earth-society
 
What Went Wrong With Weatherization
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/home_improvement/4347294.html
 
Free will is an illusion, biologist says
http://www.physorg.com/news186830615.html
 
Rare Buddhist flower found under nun's washing machine
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7345137/Rare-Buddhist-flower-found-under-nuns-washing-machine.html
   
 
 

Additional Informational
 
From ocean to ozone: Earth's ninelife-support systems
http://www.newscientist.com/special/ocean-to-ozone-earths-nine-life-support-systems
 
Next-Gen Scientists Honored for Evolving Medicine and Renewables (Slide Show)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lemelson-student-prize-2010
 
Satelloons and lunar lasers: communicating in space
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/nasa-space-communication
 
Making Friends, Making Tools, and Making Symbols
http://www2.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/mrossano/recentpubs/making%20friends.pdf



      
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