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	(Sponsor this newsletter) See Three Asteroids in the Night Sky This Month Have you ever seen an asteroid? These space rocks, though small in size, are very numerous, but very few amateur astronomers have ever seen one. The next couple of weeks give stargazers an opportunity to view three asteroids in one night: Flora, Juno, and Iris. Read More » 'Ghost Glaciers' Protect Greenland's Ancient Landscapes A Greenland landscape carved when humans first conquered fire has been protected from erosion ever since by "ghost glaciers," a new study finds. Read More » Weird Facts You Didn't Know About Sharks The Discovery Channel's Shark Week got off to a less-than-stellar start this weekend with a two-hour piece devoted to Megalodon, a prehistoric giant shark that grew up to 60 feet (18 meters) long and had jaws powerful enough to crush an automobile. The only problem is that the show suggested these animals still exist, which is definitely not the case. Up to 70 percent of the audience may now think that Megalodon is not extinct, according to a poll from the Discovery Channel. Read More » 2012 Broke Climate Records, New Report Says 2012 was a year of climate records, from temperatures to ice melt to sea level rise, a newly released report on the state of the global climate says. Read More » Sun Will Flip Its Magnetic Field Soon The sun is gearing up for a major solar flip, NASA says. Read More » Signs of new climate 'normal' apparent in hot 2012: report By Environment Correspondent Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last year was one of the 10 hottest on record, with sea levels at record highs, Arctic ice at historic lows and extreme weather in various corners of the globe signaling a "new normal," scientists said Tuesday in the 2012 State of the Climate report. Meant to be a guide for policymakers, the report did not attribute the changes in climate to any one factor, but made note of continued increases in heat-trapping greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. ... Read More » Exclusive: China approves genetically modified Argentine corn shipment By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - China has approved its first shipment of genetically modified Argentine corn, Buenos Aires said on Tuesday, signaling that the Asian country may eventually import GMO crops from other producers like the United States. Argentine Agriculture Minister Norberto Yauhar said Chinese health authorities cleared 60,000-tonnes of genetically modified (GMO) Argentine corn. The cargo was already headed inland to be used as hog and chicken feed. Benchmark Chicago corn futures fell briefly after Reuters reported on the shipment. ... Read More » Person-to-Person H7N9 Transmission: First Case Detailed in New Report The case of a father and daughter in China who both became infected with H7N9 bird flu provides the strongest evidence yet that the virus can transmit from person to person, experts say. Read More » Length of a Healthy Pregnancy Surprisingly Variable How long a healthy pregnancy lasts can vary by as much as five weeks, even when doctors precisely determined the date of conception, a new study finds. Read More » Exclusive: China approves first genetically modified Argentine cargo By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - China has approved its first shipment of genetically modified Argentine corn, Buenos Aires said on Tuesday. Argentine Agriculture Minister Norberto Yauhar said Chinese health authorities cleared 60,000-tonnes of genetically modified (GMO) Argentine corn. The cargo was already headed inland to be used as hog and chicken feed. Benchmark Chicago corn futures fell briefly after Reuters reported on the shipment. Argentina competes for market share with the United States, the No. 1 world corn exporter. ... Read More » Pink Alien Planet Is Smallest Photographed Around Sun-Like Star Astronomers have snapped a photo of a pink alien world that's the smallest yet exoplanet found around a star like our sun. Read More » Mighty Comet ISON: Space and Earth Telescopes to Track 'Comet of the Century' LAUREL, Md. — All eyes on the sky that can do so will be pointing toward Comet ISON soon, as a massive international observing campaign gets underway to watch what could become the "comet of the century," scientists say. Read More » Flirting at Work Is a Catch 22 For Women Some companies just encourage women are to flirt at work. The problem is that they pay a high price for doing so, new research shows. Read More » What a Messy (or Neat) Desk Reveals About You Got a messy desk? Don't worry. It likely just means you're creative and full of new ideas. Read More » No Resume Required: LinkedIn Jobs Goes Mobile Need a new job? Use your phone. Read More » Scientists to make mutant forms of new bird flu to assess risk By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are to create mutant forms of the H7N9 bird flu virus that has emerged in China so they can gauge the risk of it becoming a lethal human pandemic. The genetic modification work will to result in highly transmissible and deadly forms of H7N9 being made in several high security laboratories around the world, but it is vital to prepare for the threat, the scientists say. ... Read More » For Henrietta Lacks' famous cells, new and unique protection By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Information about the most famous and valuable human cells in the history of science is about to become a little harder for researchers to get. The National Institutes of Health announced on Wednesday that it had reached an agreement with the family of the late Henrietta Lacks, the African-American woman whose cancer cells scientists took without her permission 62 years ago and used to create an endlessly replicating cell line now used in countless labs worldwide. ... Read More » H7N9 Bird Flu to Undergo Genetic Tweaking Researchers plan to start tweaking the genome of the H7N9 bird flu virus in laboratories, to see what changes might randomly occur in nature that could make the virus more deadly to people. Read More » Controversial 'HeLa' Cells: Use Restricted Under New Plan For decades, the immortal line of cells known as HeLa cells has been a crucial tool for researchers. But the cells' use has also been the source of anxiety, confusion and frustration for the family of the woman, Henrietta Lacks, from whom the cells were taken without consent more than 60 years ago. Read More » Fossil of Ancient Hairy Creature Reveals Clues About Mammal Ancestors An extremely well-preserved rodentlike fossil recently discovered in China provides some of the best evidence yet for how the earliest human ancestors lived. Read More » Former Astronaut Launches Kickstarter Bid for Plasma Rocket Documentary A former astronaut's rocket company is raising money via Kickstarter to make a short documentary that explains the technology behind a propulsion system that could fly people to Mars in just over a month. Read More » One Year on Mars: NASA Marks Curiosity Rover's Dramatic Martian Year with Birthday Bash PASADENA, Calif. — It's been a year since NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on Mars, and the mission's science and engineering teams celebrated the occasion in style here at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday (Aug. 5). Read More »
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