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	(Sponsor this newsletter) Faster & Higher: Extreme Athletes Can Track Feats with Tech While there's been a surge in gadgets to help runners and bikers track their every jog and ride, extreme sport athletes have been largely left out of this "quantified self" movement (the use of technology to collect data about oneself). But thanks to a new device, skaters, surfers and snowboarders may soon be also able to measure their feats. Read More » Dangers Lurking in Supplements Prove Need for Oversight (Op-Ed) Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Conserving Life Along China's Yangtze River (Op-Ed) On Balance Conserving Life Along the Yangtze Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Why Whistle-Blowers Should Watch Out for New Loophole (Op-Ed) Celia Wexler is a senior Washington representative for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), where she focuses on food and drug safety, protections for scientist whistle-blowers and government transparency and accountability. This article first appeared in the UCS blog The Equation. She contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Applicants for One-Way Mars Trip to Descend on Washington A coterie of aspiring Martians will descend on Washington, D.C. on Saturday (Aug. 3) for the first Million Martian Meeting. Read More » Scientists to cook world's first in-vitro beef burger By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - A corner of west London will see culinary and scientific history made on Monday when scientists cook and serve up the world's first lab-grown beef burger. The in-vitro burger, cultured from cattle stem cells, the first example of what its creator says could provide an answer to global food shortages and help combat climate change, will be fried in a pan and tasted by two volunteers. ... Read More » Scientists to cook world's first in-vitro beef burger By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - A corner of west London will see culinary and scientific history made on Monday when scientists cook and serve up the world's first lab-grown beef burger. The in-vitro burger, cultured from cattle stem cells, the first example of what its creator says could provide an answer to global food shortages and help combat climate change, will be fried in a pan and tasted by two volunteers. ... Read More » Texas jury rules ban on registering cloned horses violates law By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas jury has ruled that a horse association violated anti-monopoly laws by banning cloned animals from its prestigious registry, a decision that could encourage cloning and open the way for the animals to participate in lucrative horse races. Two Texas breeders, rancher Jason Abraham and veterinarian Gregg Veneklasen, sued the American Quarter Horse Association last year, asserting the group was operating a monopoly by excluding clones. ... Read More » Jupiter, Mars and Mercury: See a Planet Triple Play This Weekend Over the next three mornings, set your alarm clock for about 75 minutes before local sunrise. If your skies are clear, you'll be able to see a "planetary triple play" low in the east-northeast sky. Read More » Artificial Ear Grown on Rat's Back From artificial eyeballs to limbs, doctors have dreamed up dozens of ways to replace body parts when things go wrong. Read More » Incredible Technology: How to Explore the Microscopic World Ever since Robert Hooke first made his beautiful sketches of magnified insects, scientists have been peering at the world through microscopes. Read More » Owl Hoots Hush the Song of a Thrush The Veery thrush, a secretive migratory bird, silences its flute-like twilight song when owls are around to avoid getting eaten, a new study shows. Read More » Mysterious Pentagram on Google Maps Explained Conspiracy theorists, start your engines: On the wind-blown steppes of central Asia, in an isolated corner of Kazakhstan, there's a large pentagram etched into the Earth's surface. And now an archaeologist has revealed the source of the mysterious structure. Read More »
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