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Science Headlines for May 26,2012

How EU farming policies led to a collapse in Europe's bird population


Source: Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk | 26 May 2012 | 2:31 pm

Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history

In this 2008 photo provided by the Turkana Basin Institute, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey discusses the evidence for human evolution over a collection of hominin fossil casts at the Turkana Basin Institute's Ileret research facility in northern Kenya. Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history sometime in the next 15 to 30 years. "If you get to the stage where you can persuade people on the evidence, that it's solid, that we are all African, that color is superficial, that stages of development of culture are all interactive," Leakey says, "then I think we have a chance of a world that will respond better to global challenges." (AP Photo/Turkana Basin Institute, Bob Campbell)Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.



Source: Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News | 26 May 2012 | 1:18 pm

Private Dragon Spacecraft Is 'Golden Spike' of Final Frontier, Astronaut Says

Private Dragon Spacecraft Is 'Golden Spike' of Final Frontier, Astronaut SaysHOUSTON — The arrival of the first commercial spacecraft at the International Space Station this week is paramount to the golden spike that completed the first railroad to span the United States 143 years ago this month, an astronaut on the orbiting lab said Saturday (May 26). 



Source: Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News | 26 May 2012 | 12:22 pm

15 Ways to Accelerate Your PC’s Slowest Component: You!

There's nothing more soul-sucking than sitting there picking your earwax while you watch Windows 7's blue ring of fire. Yet, to be fair, your poor laptop spends a lot more time waiting for you to act than you waste watching it load applications, boot up or finish processing. If your computer takes .8 seconds to load your browser, but you take 5 unnecessary seconds to type in a username and password, who's the slow poke?
Source: Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News | 26 May 2012 | 12:09 pm

The brain's emergency response call


Source: Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk | 26 May 2012 | 11:55 am

VIDEO: Astronauts praise Dragon craft

The California SpaceX company has seen its unmanned Dragon cargo ship attach successfully to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time.
Source: BBC News - Science & Environment | 26 May 2012 | 10:46 am

Astronauts enter world's 1st private supply ship

This image provided by NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft, top, after Dragon was grappled by the Canadarm2 robotic arm and connected to the International Space Station, Friday, May 25, 2012. Dragon is scheduled to spend about a week docked with the station before returning to Earth on May 31 for retrieval. (AP Photo/NASA)Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.



Source: Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News | 26 May 2012 | 10:43 am

Astronauts float inside SpaceX Dragon capsule

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station opened the hatch and floated inside a Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon capsule on Saturday, the first privately owned spaceship to reach the orbital outpost, NASA said.
Source: Reuters: Science News | 26 May 2012 | 10:25 am

SpaceX mission: watch live as astronauts discuss historic docking


Source: Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk | 26 May 2012 | 8:34 am

SpaceX Dragon: astronauts attach capsule to International Space Station - video

Astronauts capture the SpaceX Dragon capsule using the International Space Station's robotic arm



Source: Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk | 26 May 2012 | 7:51 am

Best Science Photos of the Week

From amazing shots of the annular eclipse to newly discovered species, we have some amazing photos for you this week.
Source: LiveScience.com | 26 May 2012 | 7:45 am

SpaceX capsule: Nasa astronauts enter the Dragon after historic docking


Source: Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk | 26 May 2012 | 7:14 am

Bigfoot: Beyond Footprints and DNA

Bigfoot samples have long been subjected to scientific testing...and yet science has yet to confirm the sightings.
Source: Discovery News - Top Stories | 26 May 2012 | 6:46 am

Enter the Dragon: Astronauts Open 1st Private Capsule at Space Station

Enter the Dragon: Astronauts Open 1st Private Capsule at Space StationA new first was achieved today (May 26) when astronauts on the International Space Station opened the door to their newest spacecraft visitor, the private capsule Dragon.



Source: Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News | 26 May 2012 | 4:59 am

CatHead Theatre | video | @GrrlScientist


Source: Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk | 26 May 2012 | 2:00 am

Am I a geek?


Source: Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk | 26 May 2012 | 1:09 am

SpaceX capsule docks at space station, opens new era

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship and guided the privately owned craft into a docking berth on Friday, opening a new chapter in the U.S. space program.
Source: Reuters: Science News | 25 May 2012 | 9:07 pm

First Video Captured by Google Glasses Hits the Web

Google shows how its augmented reality glasses can capture video of life in motion.
Source: LiveScience.com | 25 May 2012 | 8:05 pm

15 Ways to Accelerate Your PC’s Slowest Component: You!

The slowest part of your PC laptop sits between the keyboard and the chair. Find out how to break the human bottleneck with 15 tips.
Source: LiveScience.com | 25 May 2012 | 7:58 pm

New telescope to be in South Africa, Australia

In this time exposure photo taken Monday, April 2, 2012, the moon and stars are seen above telescope dishes near the Karoo town of Carnarvon, South Africa, which is announced Friday May 25, 2012, as the site of the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project. A giant radio telescope made up of some 3,000 separate 15-meter (49-foot) diameter dishes and intended to help scientists answer fundamental questions about the make-up of the universe will be built and based in both Australia and South Africa, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam) EDS NOTE: TIME EXPOSURE CAUSING BLUR AS TELESCOPE DISHES MOVEAustralia and South Africa will share hosting of a giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists figure out the make-up of the universe, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday.



Source: Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News | 25 May 2012 | 6:19 pm

Is China poor? Key question at climate talks

FILE- Smoke billows from a chimney of a heating plant as the sun sets in Beijing in this file photo dated Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. U.N. climate talks being held in Bonn, Germany, are in gridlock Thursday May 24, 2012, as a rift between rich and poor countries risked undoing some of the advances made last year in the two-decade-long effort to control carbon emissions from fast-growing economies like China and India as well as developed industrialized nations that scientists say are overheating the planet.(AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)Another round of U.N. climate talks closed without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor.



Source: Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News | 25 May 2012 | 6:18 pm

India Declares Open Season on Tiger Poachers

The world's "most dangerous game" is on. A state in western India has given its forest rangers permission to shoot poachers on sight in an effort to curb poaching of tigers and other endangered wildlife.
Source: Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News | 25 May 2012 | 4:24 pm

Grill Science: 5 Sizzling Tips for a Tasty Memorial Day

Grill Science: 5 Sizzling Tips for a Tasty Memorial DayPools open and dusty grills come out of hiding this Memorial Day weekend, as we remember fallen war heroes and honor the living. To ensure your Memorial Day cookouts sizzle, rather than fall flat with dry burgers and pouty pals, here are some tips served up with a healthy side of science.



Source: Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News | 25 May 2012 | 3:54 pm

Grill Science: 5 Sizzling Tips for a Tasty Memorial Day

Grill Science: 5 Sizzling Tips for a Tasty Memorial DayPools open and dusty grills come out of hiding this Memorial Day weekend, as we remember fallen war heroes and honor the living. To ensure your Memorial Day cookouts sizzle, rather than fall flat with dry burgers and pouty pals, here are some tips served up with a healthy side of science.



Source: Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News | 25 May 2012 | 3:54 pm

Plantwatch: The remarkable 'dent de lion' is becoming much more fierce


Source: Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk | 25 May 2012 | 3:30 pm

SpaceX's billionaire founder Elon Musk calls Dragon capsule just the beginning


Source: Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk | 25 May 2012 | 3:02 pm

Corrected: Gevo starts up first new plant, shares jump

(Reuters) - Gevo Inc started production at a converted ethanol plant in Minnesota, bringing on line the world's first commercial-scale facility to make advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals. Shares rose more than 9 percent.
Source: Reuters: Science News | 25 May 2012 | 2:57 pm

High-speed method to aid search for solar energy storage catalysts

Scientist have developed a new high-throughput method to identify electrocatalysts for water oxidation.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 May 2012 | 2:52 pm

Structure of human protein critical for silencing genes solved

Scientists have described the three-dimensional atomic structure of a human protein bound to a piece of RNA that "guides" the protein's ability to silence genes. The protein, Argonaute-2, is a key player in RNA interference, a powerful cellular phenomenon that has important roles in diverse biological processes, including an organism's development.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 May 2012 | 2:52 pm

Math predicts size of clot-forming cells

Mathematicians have helped biologists figure out why platelets, the cells that form blood clots, are the size and shape that they are. Because platelets are important both for healing wounds and in strokes and other conditions, a better understanding of how they form and behave could have wide implications.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 May 2012 | 2:52 pm

Brazil forest bill part-vetoed

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed some of the articles in the controversial forest code, which environmentalists say could speed up deforestation.
Source: BBC News - Science & Environment | 25 May 2012 | 2:43 pm

10 Things a Real Geek Would Never Do

Here are 10 things you need to avoid if you want to be known as a geek.
Source: LiveScience.com | 25 May 2012 | 2:24 pm