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	(Sponsor this newsletter) The Changing Climate For Flood Insurance (Op-Ed) Rob Moore is a senior policy analyst for NRDC where he is part of a team devotshort series on national flood insurance on the NRDC blog Switchboard. He contributed this article to LiveScience Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Italian astronaut recounts near-drowning during spacewalk By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - As his helmet filled with water, blurring his vision and cutting off radio communications, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano says his thoughts quickly turned to the possibility of drowning during a recent spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Parmitano gave a blow-by-blow account of the terrifying incident, which occurred on July 16, in a blog published this week. "I can't even be sure that the next time I breathe I will fill my lungs with air and not liquid," Parmitano wrote on the European Space Agency's website. ... Read More » NASA Seeking New Uses for Apollo-Shuttle Era Launch Platforms The three massive metal stands from which NASA's towering rockets launched to the moon and its space shuttles blasted off for Earth orbit are in danger of being sold as scrap metal if new users cannot be found for the historic mobile launch platforms. Read More » Sun Unleashes Another Solar Storm Aimed at Earth The sun fired off an intense solar storm at Earth Wednesday (Aug. 21) — the second in two days — hurtling billions of tons of charged particles at our planet, but should not pose a threat to people on the ground, NASA says. Read More » Manning: How Does Gender Reassignment Work? "I am Chelsea Manning. I am female." With these few words, Bradley Manning — the U.S. Army private who rocked the world by releasing highly sensitive U.S. military secrets — rocked the world once again. Read More » New Telescope Tech Takes Sharpest Night Sky Photos Ever Astronomers have taken the sharpest-ever photos of the night sky in visible light, with the aid of a new camera and "adaptive optics" system that cancels out the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere. Read More » UFO or Warplane? F-35 Jet Completes 1st Nighttime Vertical Landing An F-35B Lightning II, a fighter jet specially designed to take off on a short runway and land vertically, successfully completed its first-ever vertical night landing at sea, a key milestone for the next-generation warplane. Read More » Behind the Scenes at NYC's Exclusive Explorers Club NEW YORK — Taxidermied animal heads, majestic elephant tusks and even a preserved whale penis adorn the walls and rooms of the Explorers Club. This exclusive society, based here on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, is open only to members who've sailed to new shores, climbed to new heights or trekked on new paths. In other words, real explorers. Read More » Oldest Globe to Show the Americas Discovered The oldest known globe to represent the New World has been discovered, researchers say. Read More » Early Balding May Be Linked with Lou Gehrig's Disease Men who show signs of early balding may be at an increased risk of the rare but incurable disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig's disease, a new study finds. Read More » Girl Who Beat Brain-Eating Amoeba Can Speak The Arkansas girl who has been fighting an infection from a brain-eating amoeba is now able to speak. Read More » NASA Moon Dust Probe Ready to Launch from Virginia Coast NASA's next moon shot, a robotic mission to investigate the mysteries of moon dust and the lunar atmosphere, is set for for a September launch from Virginia's Eastern Shore. Read More » Particle Personality Disorder: Neutrinos Change Flavors in Chinese Experiment Strange particles called neutrinos have a habit of switching identities, changing from one flavor into another — a transformation that may help probe some of the fundamental mysteries of the universe. Read More » New Devices Cuts Time to ID Bacterial Infections A new device can rapidly identify nearly 200 different types of bacteria and yeast known to cause disease in people. Read More » Ancient Dunes Preserve Signs of Dinosaur-Shaking Earthquakes Long ago, when the Earth had only one continent and one ocean, an earthquake rippled through western North America's great sand sea. The early Jurassic earthquake left its mark in the vast dunes that now form the famous red cliffs of Zion National Park in Utah, a new study finds. Read More » Can Wikipedia Predict the Future ... of Box Office Hits? This weekend, will the tale of a murderous rampage told in "The Frozen Ground" starring Nicolas Cage beat out the romantic comedy "Drinking Buddies" with Anna Kendrick? Perhaps Wikipedia could tell us — even before these movies open. Read More » New Device Cuts Time to ID Bacterial Infections A new device can rapidly identify nearly 200 different types of bacteria and yeast known to cause disease in people. Read More »
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