[Science] Tantalizing New Clues Into the Mysteries of Dark Matter

Tantalizing New Clues Into the Mysteries of Dark Matter
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/science/space/new-clues-to-the-mystery-of-dark-matter.html
The dark side of the universe is whispering, but scientists are still not sure what it is saying. Science Twitter Logo. Connect With Us on Social Media · @nytimesscience on Twitter.

Watch Curiosity Rover's parachute flap in the Martian wind
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2303439/Fashion-world-The-designer-using-photos-NASAs-Mars-rover-Curiosity-space-inspired-print.html
The GIF featured here comprises seven photographs of the Curiosity Rover's parachute on the surface of Mars. Photographed from orbit between August 2012 and January 2013 by the Agency's HiRISE camera, it shows the massive (and it is massive) chute ...

Shark-Tooth Weapons Reveal "Lost" Shark Species
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130403-sharks-animals-weapons-science-extinct-species/
A closeup of a shark-tooth weapon. Image courtesy Drew J., Philipp C., and Westneat M.W.. Ker Than. for National Geographic News. Published April 3, 2013.

Clouds Contributed to Record Greenland Ice Melt
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/03/astonishing-2012-greenland-ice-melt-likely-an-anomaly
The culprit behind the record-shattering level of ice melting in Greenland in 2012 may have been low, thin clouds, new research suggests.

First glimpse of deadly sinkhole in Florida (+video)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0403/First-glimpse-of-deadly-sinkhole-in-Florida-video
Florida's Hillsborough County has made public the first footage inside the large sinkhole that cost the life of a Seffner man at midnight on Feb. 28.

Beef stroganoff good enough for scientists and home cooks alike
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/9969188/Whats-the-beef-stroganoff-about-the-rocket-scientist-mother.html
To judge from the flap over the New York Times's obituary on Yvonne Brill, female scientists, no matter how brilliant, will always be forced to carry around their domestic baggage.

How the American West was made -- a new view of plate tectonics
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/geology-do-over-how-the-west-was-born
It's long been held that North America's rugged and mountainous west was formed by the movement of the undersea Farallon plate, and that the process was roughly similar to the way groceries pile up at the end of a supermarket conveyor belt.

Robot from Pathfinder Reg. High Enters the World Arena
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/04/swarming-robots-could-be-servants-future
PALMER, Mass (WGGB) - The Robotics Team at Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical High School are representing Western Mass. in the world arena.

Young Florida panther released into the Everglades
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/03/3321920/young-florida-panther-released.html
The two-year-old male panther peeked cautiously out of the open crate placed on a dirt track between a canal and thick brush. It looked both ways, then dashed down the road like a thoroughbred in the final lap of the Triple Crown, disappearing from sight ...