[Science] Dung Beetle Uses The Milky Way For Navigation, First Animal Found To Do So

Dung Beetle Uses The Milky Way For Navigation, First Animal Found To Do So
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/dung-beetles-use-milky-way-for-navigation/article4344306.ece
The dung beetle is now the first animal proven to use the light of the Milky Way for orientation and navigation, thanks to new research from Wits University.

Every Shakespeare sonnet now right where you need it: DNA
http://www.dvice.com/2013-1-26/every-shakespeare-sonnet-now-right-where-you-need-it-dna
Though our external hard drives seem to be expanding at an exponential rate, there's always more information out there to be recorded.

The Hard Decision Not to Rescue an Ailing Dolphin
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/the-hard-decision-not-to-rescue-an-ailing-dolphin/
As a seven-foot dolphin struggled in the filthy waters of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal on Friday, onlookers - both on the canal's freezing banks and on the Internet, where the animal's throes were widely broadcast - questioned the decision by the Riverhead ...

Investors shrug at pie in the sky plans to mine asteroids, moon
http://www.mining.com/asteroid-mining-animations-depict-space-prospects-50357/
A slew of space entrepreneurs are trying to convince investors that there's gold -- and platinum and other precious minerals -- inside asteroids, just waiting to be mined.

Weaker Global Warming Seen in Study Promoted by Norway's Research Council
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/weaker-global-warming-seen-in-study-promoted-by-norways-research-council/
Purveyors of climate doubt have seized on a news release from the Research Council of Norway with this provocative title: “Global warming less extreme than feared?

Short Science, January 27, 2013
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/285715.html
Chimps no longer chumps for researchers. The National Institutes of Health, America's foremost medical research agency, will no longer fund studies involving chimpanzees.

Diver who saved dolphin: 'He swam right up to me'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21176914
A wild bottlenose dolphin, tangled in a fishing line, swims up to a diver in Hawaii and waits while the diver cuts the line free. By Elizabeth Chuck, Staff Writer, NBC News.

Dog domestication traced to early processing of starch-laden food
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gpPFB8NqF3kZ8DxLjiBQvtqfMUXw?docId=CNG.da6a00414e356d7c2944fa7cf574c7d7.81
LOS ANGELES - Long ago, some brazen wolves started hanging around human settlements, jump-starting events that ultimately led to today's domesticated dogs.

Guyana pledges to protect jaguars
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/guyana-pledges-protect-jaguars-18306164
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) The lushly forested nation of Guyana on Thursday joined a regional pact to protect jaguars, the elusive spotted cat that is the biggest land predator in the Americas but is vulnerable due to expanded agriculture and mining that carves ...