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Melting Snow Reveals Ancient Bow and Arrows in Norway

A melting patch of ancient snow in the mountains of Norway has revealed a bow and arrows likely used by hunters to kill reindeer as long ago as 5,400 years.

'The Walking Dead': Why Humans Will Never Defeat Zombies

Zombies, it turns out, can bring some life to online education.

Ancient Roots: Flowers May Have Existed When First Dinosaur Was Born

Newfound fossils hint that flowering plants arose 100 million years earlier than scientists previously thought, suggesting flowers may have existed when the first known dinosaurs roamed Earth, researchers say.

Rough Waters Ahead: Climate Change Report Ups Sea-Level Projections

The latest international climate-change report has upped the expectations for rising sea levels as the globe warms — a change scientists anticipated thanks to an improved understanding of the potential contribution from melting ice sheets.

New app being tested to spot California whales so ships can avoid them

By Ronnie Cohen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Marine biologists have begun testing a smartphone application that would allow boaters and conservationists to identify whales outside San Francisco Bay so ships can avoid striking the endangered mammals. Whale Spotter, the app developed by Conserve.IO, will be used to map the feeding grounds of the enormous creatures, which large ships too frequently strike as they migrate along the California coast. ...

NASA spacecraft finds plastic ingredient on Saturn's moon Titan

(Reuters) - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found propylene, a chemical used to make household plastic containers, on Saturn's moon Titan, the space agency said. "This is the first definitive detection of the plastic ingredient on any moon or planet, other than Earth," NASA said. A small amount of propylene was identified in Titan's lower atmosphere by Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer, which measures heat radiation, the agency reported in Monday's edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. ...

Comet ISON Buzzing Mars Now: A Telescope Viewing Guide

The promising Comet ISON, now less than two months away from a close encounter with the sun, is making a close approach to another member of the solar system today (Oct. 1): the planet Mars.

New Photos of Pakistan's Earthquake Island Released

The Earth performed the ultimate magic trick last week, making an island appear out of nowhere. The new island is a remarkable side effect of the deadly Sept. 24 earthquake in Pakistan that killed more than 500 people.

Tiny, Strange Primate Fossil Unearthed in Coal Mine

The fossilized jaw of a pint-size primate that lived about 35 million years ago in Asia has been unearthed in Thai coal mines.

Obama administration on glitches: 'It's a marathon, not a sprint'

The Obama administration defended its roll out of glitch-ridden online health care exchanges on Tuesday, saying that an unusually high number of interested visitors were to blame for the site's outages.

Search for Dangerous Asteroids Continues Despite Government Shutdown

The U.S. government shutdown may have taken NASA's asteroid-warning Twitter feed offline, but it shouldn't affect the search for potentially hazardous space rocks much, scientists say.

Billionaire rocketeers duke it out for shuttle launch pad

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Four decades ago, NASA's Launch Complex 39A was at the center of the Cold War race to the moon. Now the mothballed launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which dispatched Neil Armstrong and his crew on their historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969, is the focus of a battle of another sort, between two billionaire techies seeking to dominate a new era of private space flight. ...

Cancelled Wedding Business Creates Chance For Cheap 'I Do'

Getting engaged and planning a wedding are exciting steps in a couple's life together. The wedding industry is saturated with companies helping people plan for their big days, but what about the couples who break off their engagement? Whether it was cold feet or an emergency situation that won't allow a couple to go ahead with their wedding, canceling an event with such high emotional and financial investments can be devastating.

7 Tips For Conducting an Effective Job Interview

While job seekers may feel like the pressure is all on them during an interview, those hosting the interview also bear some responsibility for the success of the discussion.

New Asteroid-Capture Mission Idea: Go After Earth's 'Minimoons'

Capturing an asteroid may not be as difficult or expensive as NASA had thought.

Can Humans Spontaneously Combust? 'Unexplained Files' Investigates

In Galway, Ireland, 76-year-old Michael Faherty was found burned to death at his home in December 2010. The coroner concluded Faherty's death was a case of spontaneous human combustion — a human being catching fire with no apparent cause.

Krokodil, Molly and More: 5 Wretched New Street Drugs

When it comes to altered states of consciousness, humans are nothing if not inventive. A number of new synthetic drugs, opiate painkillers and other substances have emerged recently as increasingly popular among partygoers and drug addicts. And some of these substances are alarming health experts and law enforcement officials.

Gov't Shutdown Science: Why Human Nature Is to Blame

The failure of congress to reach the agreement needed to avoid a government shutdown today, in some ways, can be seen as the result of human nature, and the way people act when they form groups such as political parties, psychologists and sociologists say.

7 Insects You'll Be Eating in the Future

As the human population continues to inch closer to 8 billion people, feeding all those hungry mouths will become increasingly difficult. A growing number of experts claim that people will soon have no choice but to consume insects.

How to Get Kids to Like Vegetables: Study Reveals Tips

One trick to getting kids to like their vegetables is simply to keep offering them a variety of veggies, especially when they are younger than 1 year old, and at their most receptive, a new study suggests.

Fracking Wastewater Radioactive and Contaminated, Study Finds

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, extracts oil and gas from deep underground by injecting water into the ground and breaking the rocks in which the valuable hydrocarbons are trapped. But it also produces wastewater high in certain contaminants — and which may be radioactive.

Teenage Mice 'Cry' to Ward Off Frisky Males

Young mice secrete a pheromone in their tears in order to signal to older males that they're too young to mate, a new study finds.

Explosive Supervolcanoes May Have Rocked Ancient Mars

The surface of ancient Mars may have been rocked repeatedly by giant supervolcanoes, which unleashed colossal and explosive eruptions that forever changed the face of the Red Planet, scientists say.

Should the Higgs Boson Win This Year's Physics Nobel?

The 2013 Nobel Prize in physics will be announced next week, and while the identity of the winner (or winners) is a closely guarded secret, some are speculating the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson particle could be a top contender.

Clouds On Alien Planet Mapped for 1st Time (Image)

Scientists have created the first-ever cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system.

Earthquake Scientist: Extend California's New Early Warning System

California will be the first state to get an earthquake early warning system, thanks to a bill signed Sept. 24. And the state's effort should be a model for a national system, one earthquake scientist argues.

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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

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Infertile Woman Gives Birth After Experimental Treatment

A 30-year-old woman in Japan who was thought to be infertile recently gave birth to a healthy baby boy thanks to an experimental fertility treatment, researchers report.

Optical Illusion Explained in Monkey Brain Study

Look closely at the FedEx logo and you'll notice the space between the "E" and the "x" creates the outline of an arrow. Now, a new study reveals the part of the brain that creates such invisible shapes.

NASA May Slam Captured Asteroid Into Moon (Eventually)

Decades from now, people on Earth may be gearing up for an unprecedented celestial spectacle — the intentional smashing of an asteroid into the moon.

Giant NASA Balloon Mission to See Comet ISON Suffers Telescope Glitch

An ambitious one-day mission to observe the potentially dazzling Comet ISON with a telescope dangling from a colossal NASA balloon this weekend has failed due to a mechanical glitch, NASA officials say.

Shutdown May Hinder California's Rim Fire Cleanup

One of the worst wildfires in California's history continues to burn in Yosemite National Park, where employees will be furloughed if the government can't pass a budget tomorrow (Oct. 1).

Antarctica's Extreme Salt-Loving Microbes Swap DNA

Microbes living in Antarctica's saltiest lake swap huge chunks of genetic material as a means of surviving their harsh environment, a new study finds.

Divorce & Other Life Stressors Linked with Dementia

Common life stressors — such as divorce, widowhood or losing a job — may increase the risk of dementia later in life, a new study of women in Sweden suggests.

Government Shutdown Would Ground NASA 'Almost Entirely,' Obama Says

NASA would be among those federal government agencies to experience a near total closure if the threatened government shutdown becomes reality on Oct. 1, U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday (Sept. 30). But a government shutdown should not endanger American astronauts currently in space.

Jaw-Dropping Milky Way Galaxy View Wins Astronomy Photographer of the Year

An Australian space photographer has won top spot in a global space photography competition, with a spectacular "star-riddled" photo of the Milky Way galaxy, a jaw-dropping image beat out more than 1,200 other entrants in this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest by the U.K.'s Royal Observatory Greenwich and National Maritime Museum.

Meteor Sparks Incredible Fireball Over US Midwest (Video)

A brilliant fireball lit up the skies over the midwestern United States, treating bystanders on the ground to an amazing light show last Friday (Sept. 27).

Strange Condition Lets Woman Hear Sounds But Not Words

A 29-year-old woman developed an extremely rare condition in which she temporarily lost the ability to hear words, though she could hear other sounds, according to a report of her case.

Ancient Kingdom Discovered Beneath Mound in Iraq

In the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq archaeologists have discovered an ancient city called Idu, hidden beneath a mound.

Russia launches rocket after fiery crash in July

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia successfully launched an unmanned Proton-M booster rocket on Monday, the first since the same type of rocket crashed in flames shortly after lift-off in July, the space agency said. Carrying a communications satellite for Luxembourg-based SES, the rocket blasted off from the Russian-leased Baikonur facility in Kazakhstan at 3:38 a.m. (2138 GMT on Sunday), Roskosmos said. The satellite reached orbit about nine hours later, state-run spacecraft maker Khrunichev, which built the Proton-M, said on its website. ...

Government Shutdown In Space: NASA Astronauts Safe on Space Station

The U.S. government shutdown beginning today (Oct. 1) will shut down much of NASA, but the space agency is taking special measures to safeguard American astronauts currently living on the International Space Station.

Could Comet ISON Still Become the 'Comet of the Century?

The future of a potential "comet of the century" is still uncertain, with just under two months to go before the icy wanderer makes its closest approach to the sun.

NASA Finds Ingredient for Plastic on Saturn's Moon Titan

For the first time, a chemical essential for the creation of plastic on Earth has been found in a far-off part of the solar system: Saturn's largest Titan.

Twitter Abuzz with #Shutdown's Effects on Science

The federal government has been through federal shutdowns before — there have been 17 of them since the 1970's in fact — but the world and technology are very different from where they were during the last shutdown, which happened over 16 days in 1995-1996. Communication over the Internet then took place via email and rudimentary chat rooms and forums, but today, we have Facebook, Vine and Twitter, which can help illuminate the scope of a government shutdown.

6 Ways Government Shutdown Will Impact Science, Health

The clock ran out for the U.S. Congress to agree on a budget bill and avoid a federal government shutdown. In addition to furloughs keeping thousands of government workers from their jobs, the shutdown will have wide consequences for the country's science, innovation and health.

Statins Do Not Harm Memory, Study Says

Statins, a group of drugs that treat high cholesterol, do not appear to impair people's memory, as some recent claims had suggested, and their long-term use may even protect against dementia, a new review of studies suggests.

Did Venus Give Earth the Moon? Wild New Theory on Lunar History

LONDON —The Earth's moon may be a present from Venus, which once had a moon and then lost it, a new theory suggests. Under the theory, Earth's gravity captured Venus' old moon, giving our planet its big natural satellite.

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