[Science] Study: Prolonged Exposure to Galactic Radiation Speeds Up Alzheimer's ...

Study: Prolonged Exposure to Galactic Radiation Speeds Up Alzheimer's ...
http://www.dailytech.com/Study+Prolonged+Exposure+to+Galactic+Radiation+Speeds+Up+Alzheimers+Development/article29525.htm
A new study shows that extended exposure to cosmic radiation in space can negatively affect astronauts' brains. A team of researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center, led by M. Kerry O'Banion, found that a specific type of radiation called ...

Shell oil rig runs aground in Alaska
http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/No-fuel-sheen-no-sign-that-hull-is-breached-4159359.php
A drilling rig that Shell planned to use off Alaska's Arctic coast ran aground in a storm Monday night, after the crew had been rescued earlier by the Coast Guard.

Ancient hominids may have left the trees, but we never abandoned them
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/12/31/did.lucy.walk.climb.or.both
Ancient hominids may have left the trees, but we never abandoned them If you're quickly trying to define what sets humans apart from other primates, you might first point to our greater intelligence and our capacity for complex language.

Look to Mars for a New Year's Greeting Tonight
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50313865/ns/technology_and_science-space/
New Year's revelers in Times Square can look forward to a dispatch from Mars when the ball drops to usher in 2013, according to a tweet from NASA's Curiosity rover team.

Jellyfish experts show increased blooms are a consequence of periodic global ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57561446/jellyfish-population-booming-worldwide-or-is-it/
Scientists have cast doubt on the widely held perception that there has been a global increase in jellyfish. Blooms, or proliferations, of jellyfish can show a substantial, visible impact on coastal populations - clogged nets for fishermen, stinging waters for ...

Physicist Steve Myers lauds speed of Higgs boson progress
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20876965
A Belfast physicist who helped find the Higgs boson has said progress was made far faster than expected. Steve Myers said the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva outstripped its competitors in the race to discover the missing piece to the theory of why ...

Did Neil Armstrong lie about the origins of his 'one small step' speech?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2255346/Did-Neil-Armstrong-lie-origins-small-step-speech.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
A new documentary has cast doubt on Neil Armstrong's claims that he came up with his iconic 'one small step' line hours after touching down on the surface of the moon.

Blood of Louis XVI 'found in gourd container'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20882305
A team of scientists have said they believe an old gourd contains the blood of French King Louis XVI. The monarch was killed by guillotine by French revolutionaries more than 200 years ago, on 21 January 1793.

Wash. dock resembles one from Japan found in Ore.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hApozGd0Mmoqn-bVEeATBov2JhVA?docId=b6b6119afbb04939832f3e2b0c207416
In this Dec. 21, 2012 file photo provided by the Washington Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, scientists inspect a dock that floated up on a remote stretch of wilderness beach in northwestern Washington.

Bacteria fossils found in Australia's Pilbara region are planet's oldest, scientists say
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/sci-tech/planets-oldest-fossils-found-in-pilbara-experts-say-20130101-2c3qs.html
They're being called the planet's oldest fossils - traces of bacteria that lived a record-breaking 3.49 billion years ago found in Australia's remote Pilbara region.

Gray whales and elephant seals back for prime viewing at Point Reyes
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_22290079/gray-whales-and-elephant-seals-back-prime-viewing
Majestic gray whales and lumbering elephant seals are back along the Point Reyes coastline and visitors are getting a show. "It's pretty active out here," said John Golda, a ranger with the Point Reyes National Seashore.