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	(Sponsor this newsletter) Comet ISON In Sight! Amateur Astronomers Spot Potential 'Comet of the Century' The potential "comet of the century" Comet ISON could either become a shining visual treat or a fizzled out chunk of rock and ice when it makes its close pass of the sun, but which will it be? Read More » Jupiter and the Moon Shine Together Early Saturday: Where to Look If your pre-dawn sky is clear early Saturday (Sept. 28), you'll be treated to a lovely celestial scene as a fat, waning crescent moon will appear to pass close by the largest planet in our solar system: Jupiter. Read More » SpaceX ready to test-fly new Falcon rocket By Irene Klotz LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Privately owned Space Exploration Technologies plans to test an upgraded Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday from a site in California as part of its push into the satellite launch market. Previous versions of the Falcon 9 have flown five times from the company's launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. If the new rocket's debut goes well, SpaceX plans to return to Florida for the Falcon 9's first commercial mission, an SES World Skies communications satellite, later this year. ... Read More » How a Potential Government Shutdown Could Affect NASA A government shutdown on Tuesday (Oct. 1) would force NASA to cease most of its operations and furlough the vast majority of its workforce, space agency officials say. Read More » Scientists more convinced mankind is main cause of warming By Alister Doyle and Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Leading climate scientists said on Friday they were more convinced than ever that humans are the main culprits for global warming, and predicted the impact from greenhouse gas emissions could linger for centuries. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in a report that a hiatus in warming this century, when temperatures have risen more slowly despite growing emissions, was a natural variation that would not last. ... Read More » Europe should shift focus to bowel cancer screening to save lives: scientists By Kate Kelland AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - European governments should divert funds to routine bowel cancer tests from less effective breast and prostate screening programs, scientists said on Saturday, presenting what they called "irrefutable" evidence that bowel screening saves lives. Many governments devote significant funds to breast cancer screening, but studies in recent years have found that routine breast mammograms can also lead to so-called "over-diagnosis" when tests pick up tumors that would not have caused a problem. ... Read More » Monsters of the Night Sky: Strange Constellations to See This Fall As the constellations of summer depart from our sky, they are replaced by what are often called "the watery constellations." These include normal sea creatures like fishes and dolphins, and even Aquarius carrying a water jug. Read More » New Climate Report More Confident About Alarming Changes The latest landmark climate change report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released today (Sept. 27), and it states the most certainty to date of humanity's role in causing global warming and climate change. Read More » IPCC Climate Change Report: Experts React Scientists and other experts all over the world are reacting today (Sept. 27) to the report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stating that scientists are more certain than ever of the link between human activities and global warming. Read More » IPCC Report: Strongest Case Yet for Human-Caused Global Warming The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report on the science of global warming squarely blames humans as the primary cause of climate change, saying it is "extremely likely" that human activities have caused most of the warming of the planet's surface that has occurred since the 1950s. Read More » SpaceX to Launch Space Weather Satellite for Canada Sunday A new space-weather satellite could help better protect Earth's infrastructure from damaging solar storms, officials from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) say. Read More » Biology in the Big Apple: Surveying the Wildlife of Central Park Biology in the Big Apple: Surveying the Wildlife of Central Park Read More »
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