[Science] Dung Beetles, Dancing to the Milky Way

Dung Beetles, Dancing to the Milky Way
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/01/dung-beetles-dancing-to-the-milky-way.html
Look up at the sky on a clear, moonless night, and you can make out the broad, hazy band of the Milky Way. For the longest time, observers were unsure what the milkiness was.

2 Science Projects to Receive Award of 1 Billion Euros
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/28/3204600/2-science-projects-win-up-to-13.html
BRUSSELS - Projects to imitate the brain and to develop new materials for information technology have won awards of about 1 billion euros each that will be announced Monday by the European Commission.

Country remembers anniversary shuttle Challenger tragedy
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/press-past/2013/01/28/challenger-explosion-was-countrys-first-endeavor-in-comforting-grieving-children
Monday, January 28, 2013 3:32 PM EST. Updated: Monday, January 28, 2013 5:55 PM EST. Video Gallery. RAW: Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Beijing Recommends Residents Stay Indoors as Pollution 'Serious'
http://www.smh.com.au/world/canned-air-for-sale-in-china-as-blanket-of-smog-returns-20130129-2dht3.html
Beijing recommended the city's residents stay indoors today to avoid exposure to “serious” levels of air pollution in the Chinese capital.

Urban Heat May Warm Faraway Places
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/130128-climate-cities-urban-heat-island-atmosphere-science/
New modeling research shows that a hot city can heat up distant locales by almost 2ºF. Clouds over San Francisco. Cities such as San Francisco, California (pictured) can affect the weather in places as far away as Siberia.

Dolphin That Died in Canal Was 'Chronically Ill,' Necropsy Shows
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/dolphin-that-died-in-canal-was-chronically-ill-necropsy-shows/
The dolphin that died in the polluted Gowanus Canal on Friday had underlying health problems, Richard Drew/Associated Press The dolphin that died in the polluted Gowanus Canal on Friday had underlying health problems, biologists said Monday.

Key clue emerges in sinking of Confederate submarine
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/experts-clues-sinking-confederate-18333177
New evidence sheds light on how the Hunley sank a Union ship. H.L. Hunley. The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sits in a conservation tank after a steel truss that had surrounded it was removed Jan. 12, 2012, in a conservation lab in North Charleston, ...

Monkeys unconsciously mimic one another just as humans do says a new study.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2269439/Monkeys-ape-dancefloor-just-like-humans-Study-shows-macaques-synchronise-movements-other.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Humans tend to modify their movements to mimic those around them from the way they sit to the way they dance. It turns out that monkeys do the same thing say Japanese researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute.

Axe's 2013 Super Bowl Commercial Proves There's Nothing Better Than an ...
http://www.fastcocreate.com/1682302/axe-showcases-pulling-power-of-astronauts-in-super-bowl-campaign
For AXE's 2013 Super Bowl commercial, the body spray company strays a bit from its typical formula of good-looking women who are inexplicably in hot pursuit of average men.

Gray Whale Migration Video Shows One Of The Largest Pods Spotted Off ...
http://www.wishtv.com/dpps/entertainment/must_see_video/large-pod-of-gray-whales-pops-up-nd13_5429141
Whale watchers in Southern California are exhilarated over a sighting that's been deemed a "once in a lifetime encounter.

NASA joins forces to build a telescope to discover dark energy
http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/nasa-launches-mission-to-discover-dark-matter/
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have announced plans to create a new spacecraft that will hold an important new telescope.

Possible bigfoot evidence in Oregon? Mysterious cries heard coming from swamp
http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/possible-bigfoot-evidence-in-oregon-mysterious-cries-heard-coming-from-swamp/
The Oregonian reports that mysterious sounds have been heard coming from a swamp on the Umatilla Indian Reservation east of Pendleton, Oregon.