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	(Sponsor this newsletter) Cosmic Soufflé: The Tricky Art of Spiral Galaxies Paul Sutter is a visiting scholar at The Ohio State University's Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP). Julia Child and Alton Brown make it look so easy, but it's a real devil to cook it just so to get that stratospheric tower of deliciousness. So how do you cook a spiral galaxy? Read More » Space Travel and A Futurist's Thoughts on Trash (Op-Ed) Since the dawn of the Industrial Age, humans have made the environment's health a secondary consideration, at best. Pollution has reached the point where a cleanup of our environment — on a macro scale with heavy equipment — is impractical, and despite present efforts, humanity is losing the fight to manage trash. Commercial and government-mandated recycling can't cope with the sheer volume of trash, and these programs only excel at processing such material as paper, aluminum and steel. Read More » Bad-Rap Bats in Danger of Extinction Around the World (Photos) Ricardo Antunes is a conservation biologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Julie Larsen Maher is staff photographer for WCS, the first woman to hold the position since the society's founding in 1895. In addition to documenting her field visits, Maher photographs the animals at WCS's five New York-based wildlife parks: the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, New York Aquarium, Prospect Park Zoo and Queens Zoo. Read More » Capturing Cacti Before They Disappear: Q&A with Cacti Curator John Trager Cacti and succulents do. In conditions of less and less water availability, cacti and succulents can continue to cover our gardenscapes, bringing beauty while conserving precious water resources. Zina Deretsky: How are cacti and succulents important in the wild, and in gardens? Read More » Got the Right Stuff? NASA Is Recruiting New Astronauts Calling all aspiring astronauts: NASA announced today (Nov. 4) that it will be accepting applications starting in December for its next round of astronaut training. Currently, there are 47 active members in NASA's astronaut corp., with the last group of new astronauts selected in 2013. Applications for the new class will be accepted from mid-December through mid-February, and those selected to begin astronaut training will be announced in mid-2017. Read More » Halloween Asteroid Not So Spooky in New Photos New photos show the less spooky side of the big asteroid that flew past Earth on Halloween. Read More » NASA to Unveil New Findings About Mars' Atmosphere Thursday NASA will reveal new results about the atmosphere of Mars this Thursday (Nov. 5), and you can watch the action live. The space agency is hosting a news conference on Thursday at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) to "announce new findings on [the] fate of Mars' atmosphere," according to a NASA media advisory. You can watch the news conference live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV. Read More » Scientists tinker with evolution to save Hawaii coral reefs COCONUT ISLAND, Hawaii (AP) — Scientists are preparing to transplant laboratory-enhanced coral onto reefs in Hawaii in hopes that the high-performing specimens will strengthen the overall health of the reef. Read More » Mysterious Dark Matter May Not Always Have Been Dark Dark matter particles may have interacted extensively with normal matter long ago, when the universe was very hot, a new study suggests. Astronomers began suspecting the existence of dark matter when they noticed the cosmos seemed to possess more mass than stars could account for. Most scientists think dark matter provides the gravity that helps hold these stars back. Read More » Flying Telescope Catches Glimpse of Alien Planet Studies of exoplanets normally have been confined to either outer space or the ground. "Exoplanets are rare events that are sometimes hard to observe from a fixed ground-based telescope," Daniel Angerhausen, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, told Space.com by email. Read More » Oil Spill Aftermath: Why Baby Dolphins May Be Rare in Gulf Waters Bottlenose dolphins swimming in waters affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are dying earlier and birthing fewer calves than dolphins living in other areas, a new study shows. Just 20 percent of pregnant dolphins in Barataria Bay — a part of the Gulf of Mexico that was most heavily tainted by oil from the spill — gave birth to surviving calves, much lower than the 83 percent success rate in other dolphin populations, the researchers found. In addition, just 86.8 percent of the Barataria Bay dolphins survive every year. Read More » Man Dies After Tapeworm Inside Him Gets Cancer A Colombian man's lung tumors turned out to have an extremely unusual cause: The rapidly growing masses weren't actually made of human cells, but were from a tapeworm living inside him, according to a report of the case. This is the first known report of a person becoming sick from cancer cells that developed in a parasite, the researchers said. "We were amazed when we found this new type of disease — tapeworms growing inside a person, essentially getting cancer, that spreads to the person, causing tumors," said study researcher Dr. Atis Muehlenbachs, a staff pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch (IDPB). Read More » Better Instructions for Tattoo Care Could Prevent Infections, Doctors Say People who get tattoos need better instructions on how to properly care for their skin afterward, and most states need stronger guidelines for tattoo artists about this topic, a new opinion paper suggests. Only seven states in the U.S. — Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan and North Dakota — have strong policies, requiring that licensed tattoo artists provide customers with instructions on tattoo "aftercare" that has received prior approval from state public health officials, the skin care experts wrote. Such instructions can prevent skin infections after a person gets inked, according to the paper, published online today (Nov. 4) in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Dermatology. Read More » Can Prenatal Choline Cut Schizophrenia Risk in Kids? In an update to a recent study, researchers say they are continuing to find evidence that women who take supplements containing choline when they're pregnant may lower the risk of schizophrenia in their children. The children in the study are now 4 years old, and are already showing fewer early signs of schizophrenia — such as certain attention and social problems — than expected, said Dr. Robert Freedman at a talk in New York City on Oct. 23.  Half of the children in the study had an increased risk for schizophrenia because their mothers had depression, anxiety or psychosis. Freedman, the chairman of the department of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and editor in chief of The American Journal of Psychiatry, gave attendees at the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation symposium an update on the participants in his study, which was originally published in 2013 in The American Journal of Psychiatry. Read More » Scientists crack mystery of Mars' missing atmosphere - the sun did it By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Scientists have documented a solar storm blasting away Mars' atmosphere, an important clue in a long-standing mystery of how a planet that was once like Earth turned into a cold, dry desert, research published on Thursday shows. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a global magnetic field to protect its atmosphere, leaving it vulnerable to solar ultraviolet radiation and high-energy blasts of gas and magnetic particles that stream from the sun during solar storms. On March 8, NASA's Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft caught such a storm stripping away the planet's atmosphere, according to a report published in this week's issue of the journal Science. Read More » Scientists crack mystery of Mars' missing atmosphere -the sun did it By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Scientists have documented a solar storm blasting away Mars' atmosphere, an important clue in a long-standing mystery of how a planet that was once like Earth turned into a cold, dry desert, research published on Thursday shows. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a global magnetic field to protect its atmosphere, leaving it vulnerable to solar ultraviolet radiation and high-energy blasts of gas and magnetic particles that stream from the sun during solar storms. On March 8, NASA's Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft caught such a storm stripping away the planet's atmosphere, according to a report published in this week's issue of the journal Science. Read More » Watch your mouth: Allosaurus had monstrously gaping jaws By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - You might call the Jurassic Period meat-eating dinosaur Allosaurus the ultimate big mouth. A new study analyzing dinosaur jaw musculature found that this fearsome hunter that prowled North America about 150 million years ago was able to crank open its jaws between 79 and 92 degrees, wider than a right angle. With a skull length of about 3 feet (90 cm), that means a jaw gape of more than 31 inches (80 cm), a terrifying threat to the plant-eating dinosaurs stalked by Allosaurus, a beast more than 33 feet (10 meters) long. Read More »
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