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	(Sponsor this newsletter) U.S. scientist operates colleague's brain from across campus By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists said Tuesday they have achieved the first human-to-human mind meld, with one researcher sending a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motion of a colleague sitting across the Seattle campus of the University of Washington. ... Read More » Amazing Video: Aerial Assault Team Battles California Fire The U.S. National Guard has released a series of stunning cockpit videos from the aerial assault team battling the Rim Fire, which is tearing toward San Francisco's water supply and protected giant-sequoia groves. Read More » Cause of East Coast Dolphin Die-Off Found Federal scientists say a virus related to human measles is likely to blame for the mass die-off of bottlenose dolphins along the East Coast. Based on the last outbreak, they say it could affect the species until next year. Read More » Sandy Swept Away Half of Island's Sand During Hurricane Sandy, more than half of the beach and dune sand disappeared from Fire Island, a barrier island off the southern coast of Long Island, N.Y. Read More » U.S. scientist operates colleague's brain from across campus By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists said Tuesday they have achieved the first human-to-human mind meld, with one researcher sending a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motion of a colleague sitting across the Seattle campus of the University of Washington. ... Read More » Website Chronicles Apollo Moon Rocket Engine Preservation: Watch Live The historic rocket engine parts that Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos salvaged from the seafloor have now been launched online, providing the public a live view of the multi-year effort to conserve the rare artifacts for future museum displays. Read More » Protecting the Nation's Drinking Water Means Protecting Forests (Op-Ed) Sustainable Forestry Initiative. Carlton Owen is president and CEO of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities. The authors contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Fracking is Draining Local Communities (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 . She contributed this article to LiveScience's Read More » As Storms Worsen, States Must Be Better Prepared (Op-Ed) Aliya HaqNatural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » The Environmental Movement's Debt to Martin Luther King Jr. (Op-Ed) " In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf and Ending Our Oil Addiction" Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Read More » Scientists say existence of new element confirmed BERLIN (AP) — Scientists in Sweden say they have confirmed the existence of a new chemical element, but its name may need some work. Read More » NASA Will Crash Helicopter for Science Wednesday: Watch It Live These dummies are about to go on a wild ride. Read More » Get Out of My Face! Anxious People Need More Personal Space Everybody has a "personal space," or a protective invisible bubble around their body to keep themselves safe from unwanted intrusions — like flying shoes, or perhaps close-talkers. Read More » How Do Gas Masks Work? As the civil insurrection in Syria escalates, some of Syria's neighbors are concerned they may become the victims of a poisonous gas attack. Read More » Can You Solve This Physics Brain Teaser of the Bullet-Block Experiment? [Video] Can You Solve This Physics Brain Teaser of the Bullet-Block Experiment? [Video] Read More » Mammal Evolution Took No Great Leap, Study Suggests After the greatest mass extinction on Earth, mammals apparently evolved not in a great leap forward, but rather in small ways that did not stand out much from their ancestors, researchers say. Read More » Humans Can Learn to Echolocate Blind humans have been known to use echolocation to "see" their environment, but even sighted people can learn the skill, a new study finds. Read More » Strange Squid Feeding Revealed in 1st Video Footage Not all squid are made alike, and the first-ever footage of one sluggish deep-sea species demonstrates just how varied these elusive animals can be. Read More » Mars as Big as the Moon? No, Stargazing Hoax Hits Facebook After a two-year hiatus, the infamous Mars Hoax has once again reared its head. Read More » Supernova Shockwave Streaks Through Space at 8 Miles Per Second Scientists have captured the blast from a supernova 10,000 light-years away in a cosmic speed trap, clocking the shockwave from the dead star's explosive end at speeds of nearly 8 miles per second. Read More » Moon Water Discovery Hints at Mystery Source Deep Underground Evidence of water spotted on the moon's surface by a sharp-eyed spacecraft likely originated from an unknown source deep in the lunar interior, scientists say. Read More » 19th-Century Shipwreck Finally Identified Off NJ Coast A 19th-century steamer that sank beneath the waves after a violent crash off the New Jersey coast has now been found. Read More » Experts Debate Ethics of Studies on Preemies Two medical studies of premature infants have come under fire recently because they allegedly did not properly inform parents about the risks their children might face by participating in the research. Read More » Mobile Gaming: How Much Is Too Much for Kids? Theo Rowland-Fry's parents probably weren't thinking about doughnuts when they bought their iPad. Read More » Boa Constrictor Seen Eating Howler Monkey in a First If a snake eats a monkey in the forest and no one sees it, does it make a difference? New evidence suggests that it does. Read More » US Tallest Mountain's Surprising Location Explained Reaching 20,320 feet (6,194 meters) above sea level in south-central Alaska, Mount McKinley is North America's tallest mountain and the third tallest mountain in the world after Mount Everest in Nepal and Aconcagua in Argentina. The behemoth has long befuddled geologists because it stands far inland, more than 300 miles (500 kilometers) away from major mountain-building tectonic activityalong Alaska's western coast. Read More » How Air Pollution Affects Climate: NASA Mission Explores HOUSTON — In an attempt to better understand how air pollution and natural emissions of certain chemicals are distributed by storms and how that movement affects Earth's climate on a global scale, NASA has commenced its most complex airborne science study of the year, drawing together coordinated observations from the agency's satellites, aircraft and ground sites. Read More » China to land first probe on moon this year BEIJING (Reuters) - China will land its first probe on the moon at the end of this year, state media reported on Wednesday, the next step in an ambitious space program which includes eventually building a space station. In 2007, China launched its first moon orbiter, the Chang'e One orbiter, named after a lunar goddess, which took images of the surface and analyzed the distribution of elements. That launch marked the first step in China's three-stage moon mission, to be followed by an unmanned moon mission and then the retrieval of lunar soil and stone samples around 2017. ... Read More » NASA Captures Radar Images of Huge Asteroid Near Earth (Photo) NASA scientists captured detailed radar views of a huge asteroid as it whizzed by Earth earlier this month. Read More » Workaholic Dads Linked to Sons' Bad Behavior Fathers who spend long hours at work may find that their young sons have more behavioral problems, a new study suggests. Read More » Asthma Attacks Surge During Back-to-School Time, Doctors Warn As children go back to school, doctors and parents are preparing for a surge in asthma attacks. Read More » Scientists grow "mini human brains" from stem cells By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have grown the first mini human brains in a laboratory and say their success could lead to new levels of understanding about the way brains develop and what goes wrong in disorders like schizophrenia and autism. Researchers based in Austria started with human stem cells and created a culture in the lab that allowed them to grow into so-called "cerebral organoids" - or mini brains - that consisted of several distinct brain regions. ... Read More » Mini Human 'Brains' Grown in a Dish The first complete living model of the developing human brain has been created in a lab dish. Read More » Saturn Moon Titan Sports Thick Icy Shell & Bizarre Interior The tough icy shell of Saturn's largest moon Titan is apparently far stronger than previously thought, researchers say. Read More » Scientists grow "mini human brains" from stem cells By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have grown the first mini human brains in a laboratory and say their success could lead to new levels of understanding about the way brains develop and what goes wrong in disorders like schizophrenia and autism. Researchers based in Austria started with human stem cells and created a culture in the lab that allowed them to grow into so-called "cerebral organoids" - or mini brains - that consisted of several distinct brain regions. ... Read More » How Anthrax Kills: Toxins Damage Liver and Heart A new study of anthrax reveals why the infection is deadly. Read More » Scientists discover key to normal memory lapses in seniors By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists have good news for all the older adults who occasionally forget why they walked into a room - and panic that they are getting Alzheimer's disease. Not only is age-related memory loss a syndrome in its own right and completely unrelated to that dread disease, but unlike Alzheimer's it may be reversible or even preventable, researchers led by a Nobel laureate said in a study published on Wednesday. ... Read More » Scientists discover key to normal memory lapses in seniors By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists have good news for all the older adults who occasionally forget why they walked into a room - and panic that they are getting Alzheimer's disease. Not only is age-related memory loss a syndrome in its own right and completely unrelated to that dread disease, but unlike Alzheimer's it may be reversible or even preventable, researchers led by a Nobel laureate said in a study published on Wednesday. ... Read More »
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