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	(Sponsor this newsletter) New Legislation Could Yield Net Loss for Animal Welfare (Op-Ed) post on the blog A Humane Nation, where it ran before appearing in LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » U.S. Military Prepares for Global Unrest Amid Climate Fears (Op-Ed) Marlene Cimons Climate Nexus Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » The Psychology of Success: Helping Students Achieve (Op-Ed) Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Largest cancer gene database made public By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - National Cancer Institute scientists have released the largest-ever database of cancer-related genetic variations, providing researchers the most comprehensive way so far to figure out how to target treatments for the disease. Open access worldwide to the new database, based on genome studies, is expected to help researchers accelerate development of new drugs and better match patients with therapies, NCI said in a statement on Monday. "Most anti-cancer drugs that are used today are used based on their empirical activity," Dr. ... Read More » Does Twitter Deserve a Place in the Classroom? (Op-Ed) Jin Kim Montclare Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » The Tech Skills Employers Want Employees with tech skills and experience will be in high demand throughout the rest of the year, new research shows. Read More » The Different Career Desires of Men & Women The qualities men and women look for in a new job are significantly different, new research shows. Read More » Royal Baby: Are Firstborns More Likely to Be Late? The world is eagerly awaiting the birth of the royal baby, but considering this is Kate Middleton's first pregnancy, is the baby likely to be late? Read More » High Blood Pressure Increasing in Children More children have elevated blood pressure than before, and both increasing obesity rates and higher salt intake are to blame, according to a new study. Read More » John Llewellyn, NASA Scientist-Astronaut Who Never Flew, Dies at 80 John Llewellyn, a chemist who in 1967 was selected to be a NASA astronaut but whose inability to pilot a jet led to him resigning from the space program a year later, died July 2. He was 80. Read More » Astronomer finds new moon orbiting Neptune By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An astronomer studying archived images of Neptune taken by the Hubble Space Telescope has found a 14th moon orbiting the planet, NASA said on Monday. Estimated to be about 12 miles in diameter, the moon is located about 65,400 miles from Neptune. Astronomer Mark Showalter, with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, was searching Hubble images for moons inside faint ring fragments circling Neptune when he decided to run his analysis program on a broader part of the sky. ... Read More » NASA Cuts Spacewalk Short After Water Leak Inside Astronaut's Spacesuit NASA aborted a planned six-hour spacewalk by two astronauts outside the International Space Station today (July 16) when a one of the spacewalkers reported "a lot of water" inside his spacesuit helmet, a potentially scary situation. Read More » NASA aborts spacewalk after water leak in astronaut's helmet By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A spacewalk to work on the International Space Station abruptly ended on Tuesday when water started building up inside an astronaut's helmet, NASA officials said. U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy and Italy's Luca Parmitano were less than an hour into a planned six-hour outing when Parmitano reported water inside his helmet. "My head is really wet and I have a feeling it's increasing," Parmitano radioed to flight controllers in Houston. The cause of the leak was not immediately clear. ... Read More » Mummy Teeth Tell of Ancient Egypt's Drought The link between drought and the rise and fall of Egypt's ancient cultures, including the pyramid builders, has long fascinated scientists and historians. Now, they're looking into an unexpected source to find connections: mummy teeth. Read More » Floating Free: New Levitation System Uses Sound Waves Hold on to your wand, Harry Potter: Science has outdone even your best "Leviosa!" levitation spell. Read More » It's Official: T. Rex Was Ferocious Predator, Not Scavenger As most anyone who went through the "dinosaur phase" in childhood already guessed was a fearsome predator. Read More » Incredible Technology: How to Explore the Deep Sea From Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" to Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," the ocean has long been a subject of deep wonder and mystery. Read More » Oil Sheens Near Deepwater Horizon Spill from Sunken Rig Recurrent sheens of oil in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of 2010's Deepwater Horizon oil spill have baffled researchers and led to fears that oil may once again be spewing from the seafloor well. Read More » Incredible Technology: How to See a Black Hole Black holes are essentially invisible, but astronomers are developing technology to image the immediate surroundings of these enigmas like never before. Within a few years, experts say, scientists may have the first-ever picture of the environment around a black hole, and could even spot the theorized "shadow" of a black hole itself. Read More » Two NASA Droids Set for Military Robotics Challenge Two NASA-built robots — one of them ape-inspired — have been selected to compete against other droids in a grueling challenge later this year. Read More » Spot the Moon and Saturn in Night Sky This Week On Tuesday (July 16), Major League Baseball's All Star Game will be played at Citifield in New York, but the baseball diamond won't be the only place to see stars that night. Read More » Hurricane Sandy Was 1-in-700-Year Event Hurricane Sandy's devastating storm track is a rare one among hurricanes; a new statistical analysis estimates that the track of the storm — which took an unusual left-hand turn in the Atlantic before slamming into the East Coast — has an average probability of happening only once every 700 years. Read More » Sharks Thrive in Fiji's Protected Waters In Fiji's largest marine reserve, shark populations are benefiting from "no-take" protections that keep their food supply steady, according to a new study. Read More »
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