[Science] Holly the cat: A Florida feline's 200-mile two-month journey home baffles scientists

Holly the cat: A Florida feline's 200-mile two-month journey home baffles scientists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9828605/Holly-the-cat-A-Florida-felines-200-mile-two-month-journey-home-baffles-scientists.html
Exhausted and emaciated, barely able to stand and too weak to miaow, the cat appeared from nowhere on New Year's Eve in the back garden of a Florida family home.

Seeing US Laboratory Chimpanzees For Who They Are
http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/25/no-more-monkey-business-federal-chimp-experiments-likely-to-end/
By now, you probably know that the National Institutes of Health last week announced its plans to retire to sanctuaries hundreds of chimpanzees used for research, including invasive biomedical research.

Wrong Science, DNA Sequencing, And Freaking Out About Neanderthals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/26/neanderthal-baby-surrogate-mother-mangan
Timing matters, especially when it comes to cloned Neanderthal babies. Peter Shanks at the Center for Genetics and Society, a watch dog group that worries about the implications of biotechnology, did a nice job tracking down many (but not all) of the ...

Fey, View from the Right: Climate change
http://www.aninews.in/newsdetail9/story96184/global-warming-039-less-extreme-than-feared-039-.html
Here's the bad news: Global carbon dioxide levels rose faster than expected over the past decade. Here's the good news: Aggregate global temperatures have risen not at all over the past 16 years.

Wolves transformed to dogs because of starchy diet, study suggests
http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/1315660-agriculture-played-vital-role-evolution-dogs-study
Scientists have found that the ability to easily digest starchy foods may be the key difference between wolves and dogs. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images).

Boffins baffled over pulsar with 'split personality'
http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/1315647-pulsar-s-toggling-behavior-research
A pulsar that randomly and without warning dramatically changes its pattern of radio wave and X-ray emissions has surprised a team of astronomers, who wrote that it "challenges all proposed pulsar emission theories".

Radon levels high in Portland
http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/study-radon-levels-high-in-oregon/
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The percentage of Portland-area homes with elevated levels of the cancer-causing gas radon is double the national average, according to new estimates.