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	(Sponsor this newsletter) North Pole 'Lake' Vanishes Like a politician whose peccadillos lead to "family time," the North Pole lake has had its fill of Internet notoriety. The stunning blue meltwater lake that formed on the Arctic ice disappeared on Monday (July 29), draining through a crack in the underlying ice floe. Read More » SpaceX wins bid to launch Canadian radar satellites By Irene Klotz (Reuters) - Privately owned Space Exploration Technologies was selected to launch a trio of Canadian radar satellites aboard a single Falcon 9 rocket, the company announced on Tuesday. The California-based firm, also known as SpaceX, already is flying NASA cargo to the International Space Station, a permanently staffed research outpost that flies about 250 miles above Earth. Owned and operated by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, the company is also working on a space taxi to fly astronauts to the orbital outpost. A relative newcomer to the U.S. ... Read More » Mothballed NASA telescope may get new life as asteroid hunter By Irene Klotz (Reuters) - NASA is considering re-activating a mothballed space telescope to help find asteroids that could be on a collision course with Earth, according to a senior U.S. space agency official. Launched in December 2009, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, telescope spent about a year taking pictures for an all-sky map. With its infrared detectors, WISE was able to peer through thick layers of dust and see even relatively dim objects such as cool brown dwarf stars in great detail. ... Read More » NASA pushing to keep 'space taxi' competition going By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA is pressing ahead with a program to fly its astronauts on commercial spaceships despite budget uncertainties that threaten to undermine a heated competition for its business. Since 2010, when the U.S. space agency begin partnering with private companies interested in developing space taxis, and May 2014, when the current phase of the so-called Commercial Crew initiative ends, NASA expects to have spent about $1.5 billion on the program. ... Read More » Need a Job? Volunteer Giving back to the community is one way job seekers can boost their chances of finding work, new research shows. Read More » Science of Summer: How Is Ice Cream Made? The ultimate summer treat is, arguably, ice cream. Some 1.5 billion gallons of ice cream and other related frozen desserts are made every year in the United States, with production peaking (as one might expect) in the sultry summer months, according to the International Dairy Foods Association. Read More » Unusual Sexual Fixation: Man Aroused by Farts If "Brad" had been born a century earlier, he may never have found others who share his preferences. But the Internet is a magnet for sexual confessions. Read More » Sex After Childbirth: Both Parents Have Changes in Desire Having a child not only affects the sexual desire of the woman who gives birth, but also her partner's, a new study suggests. Read More » More Than Half of Stranded Bottlenose Dolphins May Be Deaf In waters from Florida to the Caribbean, dolphins are showing up stranded or entangled in fishing gear with an unusual problem: They can't hear. Read More » Girl's Brown Recluse Spider Bite Turns Into Open Wound When a little girl's spider bite developed into a nasty open wound, doctors had to perform two procedures to remove blackened, dead tissue from her leg, researchers say. Read More » Hubble Telescope Helps Solve Galaxy-Evolution Mystery New observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have helped astronomers crack a longstanding puzzle about galaxy evolution. Read More » Coffin-Within-a-Coffin Biggest Find of Richard III Dig A month-long dig has come to an end at the site where King Richard III's grave was discovered under a parking lot in Leicester, England, last summer. Read More » Eating Fish During Pregnancy Not Linked to Autism Children who are exposed in utero to low levels of mercury, such as from fish consumed during pregnancy, are not at an increased risk of developing autismlike behaviors, a new study finds. Read More » HFCs? Curbing Them Is Key to Climate-Change Strategy (Op-Ed) Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Have We Learned the Lessons from Deepwater Horizon? (Op-Ed) Frances Beinecke is the president of NRDC, served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, and holds a leadership role in several environmental organizations. This article is adapted from a recent post to Switchboard Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Nearly 100 Animals Rescued from Squalor at Rural Homestead (Op-Ed) Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » How Many Kids Are Up-to-Date With Vaccines? Most kindergarteners are up-to-date with their vaccines, but data from the state level might mask clusters of unvaccinated children, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Read More » Wish You Were a Morning Person? Try a Camping Trip A weeklong camping trip can help reset a person's internal biological clock, so that it will be easier to wake up in the morning and feel more alert, a new study suggests. Read More » Oxygen Brought Earliest Carnivores to Life Without oxygen, there would be no carnivores. Without carnivores, there would be no Cambrian explosion, the stunning evolutionary burst of diversity in species and body forms that began 540 million years ago. Read More » Deaths from Guns: Homicide Rates Drop, But Suicide Rises Rates of gun homicide have declined in recent years in U.S. cities, but rates of suicide by firearm are on the rise, according to a new report. Read More » Sweet Success: Chocolate Structure Whets Appetite for Innovation A delectable design aimed at using innovative materials in architecture has led to what might be a cocoa lover's wildest dream: a pavilion made entirely out of chocolate. Read More » Genetic 'Adam' and 'Eve' Uncovered Almost every man alive can trace his origins to one man who lived about 135,000 years ago, new research suggests. And that ancient man likely shared the planet with the mother of all women. Read More » NASA Completes First Review of Asteroid-Capture Concepts NASA has conducted its first internal review of ideas for its ambitious asteroid-capture mission, agency officials announced Wednesday (July 31). Read More » Bullied Kids More Likely to Commit Crimes As Adults People who were bullied throughout childhood and adolescence are more likely than others to engage in delinquent or criminal behavior later in life, a new study finds. Read More »
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