LiveScience.com - It's not easy being small, and it turns out for mammals there
are more evolutionary pros than cons to being big, with species tending to
develop larger body sizes over time. -- read full article
AP - Global warming will affect the health and welfare of every American, but the poor, elderly, and children will suffer the most, according to a new White House science report released Thursday. -- read full article
AP - It's not exactly Tony serenading Maria in "West Side Story," but for all their homeliness toadfish also sing to attract mates. -- read full article
AP - The House on Wednesday approved extending federal "wild and scenic" environmental protection to the lower Taunton River in Massachusetts, dealing a blow to developers who want to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on an urbanized stretch of riverbank.
AFP - Tiger skins and rare caged primates openly sold at markets in the heart of Indonesia's capital are the most brazen and visible aspect of a thriving illegal wildlife trade.
SPACE.com - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has
successfully drilled into the rock-hard ice layer below the Martian surface and
collected the frozen shavings in its robotic arm scoop, NASA said on Wednesday.
Reuters - Inflation accelerated in June to its
fastest rate since the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005
while workers' earnings slumped, compounding the stagflationary
dilemma facing the Federal Reserve.
LiveScience.com - On fields of dreams, the duel between the batter and the pitcher at
times assumes aspects of humiliation and farce. And never more so than
when a batter misses a pitch, swinging so forcefully as to nearly
sprain something. The culprit in such cases is usually either a rising
fastball or a so-called drop curveball. -- read full article
AP - Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The Associated Press Wednesday.
AP - The first archaeological dig at one of the nation's oldest cathedrals has turned up a mix of new finds in the heart of the French Quarter. Discoveries behind St. Louis Cathedral include a small silver crucifix from the 1770s or 1780s and traces of previously unknown buildings dating back to around the city's founding in 1718.
Reuters - Oil steadied on Wednesday, after a sharp fall the previous session on expectations that a faltering economy in top energy consumer the United States would hit demand growth.
AP - Three Chinese citizens were arrested Wednesday at Nairobi's international airport carrying dozens of pieces of ivory, including chopsticks, bracelets and carved figurines. -- read full article
AFP - The European spacecraft Mars Express is to make a daring flyby of the Martian moon Phobos in the hope of gaining insights into its enigmatic surface, temperature and geological past, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday.
Reuters - Some U.S. weather forecasting models
suggested a high pressure ridge would move into the western
Midwest by late July which could mean hot and dry weather when
corn is in the midst of pollination, meteorologists said
Wednesday. -- read full article
