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  1. Human Speech Traced to Talking Fish LiveScience.com - Fri Jul 18, 5:03 PM ET Sent 196 times

    From Don Knotts' portrayle of "Mr. Limpet" to the children's favorite "Nemo" and the tuna-pitching character in the "Sorry, Charlie" commercials, we all have seen fish that can talk. But that's just fiction, right?

  2. Spectacular Summer Sights: Shooting Stars SPACE.com - Fri Jul 18, 1:02 AM ET Sent 41 times

    Anyone gazing at the summer night sky for even a short length of time is likely to spot a few "shooting stars" darting across the sky.

  3. 8 Signs the Animal Kingdom Is Out of Whack LiveScience.com - Fri Jul 18, 1:51 PM ET Sent 17 times

    A polar bear clinging to a melting iceberg may the poster child for global warming, but rising temperatures, pollution and other human activity are also affecting the animal kingdom in far subtler ways. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, the natural world could be giving us other signs that human intervention has knocked it way off kilter.

  4. Zahi Hawas, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), left, and Japanese Egyptologist Sakuji Yoshimura, right, from Waseda Universty in Japan, display for the first time the Pharaoh Cheops' second solar boat through a camera put inside the boat pit at the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt, Saturday, July 19, 2008 which tourists will be able to see for the first time without the pit having to be uncovered again. The screen shows the boat which lies 10 metres below the surface and is believed to have been built to take King Cheops to the heavens after his death nearly 5000 years ago. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
    Scholars will reassemble ancient Egyptian boat AP - Sat Jul 19, 6:15 AM ET Sent 10 times

    CAIRO, Egypt - Archaeologists and scholars will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great pyramid. They will then try to reassemble the craft.

  5. A penguin that was rescued off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state by the Brazilian Coast Guard receives treatment from a veterinarian at the Niteroi Zoo in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, July 18, 2008. According to officials, over 400 baby penguins have been found dead on the state's shores over the past two months. While large numbers of penguins arrive on Rio de Janeiro's beaches every year, swept by strong ocean currents from the Strait of Magellan, there have been more this year than at any time in recent memory. (AP Photo/Ricardo Moraes)
    Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil AP - Fri Jul 18, 9:06 PM ET Sent 8 times

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.

  6. Dwarf planet near Pluto named for Polynesian god Reuters - Sat Jul 19, 6:41 PM ET Sent 7 times

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune has been designated the third plutoid in the solar system and given the name Makemake, the International Astronomical Union said on Saturday.

  7. People toast with mugs filled with Sapporo beer at Sapporo Bier Garten in Sapporo, Japan, February 19, 2007. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
    Loud bar music makes customers drink more: study Reuters - Fri Jul 18, 5:42 PM ET Sent 5 times

    LONDON (Reuters) - Customers of bars that play loud music drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers said on Friday.

  8. 'Hellboy' Taps Into Ancient Irish Folklore LiveScience.com - Wed Jul 2, 1:36 PM ET Sent 3 times

    When "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" hits the big screen on July 11, it won't just be comic book aficionados salivating over the lush, fantasy-world storyline.

  9. The Lima government on Friday declared a state of emergency after the dump, located at Coricancha mine and owned and operated by Gold Hawk Resources Inc., showed signs of ground displacement and fragility.(Gold Hawk Resources)
    Peru fears environmental mining disaster AFP - Sat Jul 19, 5:42 PM ET Sent 2 times

    LIMA (AFP) - Peru scrambled Saturday to prevent potential environmental disaster, after a dump for a major ore mining operation showed signs of a rupture that could lead to contamination of the local water supply.

  10. Purdue panel finds misconduct by fusion scientist AP - Fri Jul 18, 5:15 PM ET Sent 2 times

    INDIANAPOLIS - A Purdue University panel has found two instances of misconduct by a researcher who claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments.

  11. Spot the Space Station SPACE.com - Fri Jul 11, 12:15 AM ET Sent 2 times

    If you're out watching the twilight sky in the time frame from 45 to 90 minutes before sunrise, or 45 to 90 minutes after sunset, you'll might see a few "moving stars." They are most likely artificial satellites.

  12. Cells from humans grow blood vessels in mice: study Reuters - Sat Jul 19, 6:55 PM ET Sent 1 times

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cells taken from human bone marrow, blood and umbilical cords grew into functioning blood vessels in mice with just the right coaxing, U.S. researchers reported on Saturday.

  13. Ulcers Discovered in Mummies LiveScience.com - Mon Jul 14, 7:50 PM ET Sent 1 times

    Remnants of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori were discovered in gastric tissue from the mummies, human remains believed to predate Columbus' discovery of the New World.

  14. Global Warming: Top 10, Again AP - Wed Jul 16, 12:16 PM ET Sent 1 times

    WASHINGTON - Earth scored another Top 10 finish in June — climate wise.

  15. Lava flows from the crater of a volcano. Ninety-three million years ago, Earth was a reshuffled jigsaw of continents, a hothouse where the average temperature was nearly twice that of today.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)
    Death in the deep: Volcanoes blamed for mass extinction AFP - Wed Jul 16, 1:23 PM ET Sent 1 times

    PARIS (AFP) - Ninety-three million years ago, Earth was a reshuffled jigsaw of continents, a hothouse where the average temperature was nearly twice that of today.

  16. Lightning Remains Huge Mystery LiveScience.com - Thu Jul 17, 9:16 AM ET Sent 1 times

    As common as lightning is, it still sparks considerable confusion among scientists.

  17. A Boeing Delta 2 rocket carrying NASA 's Deep Impact spacecraft lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, January 12, 2005. REUTERS/Tom Rogers/Files
    New Video Sees Earth from Alien Perspective SPACE.com - Fri Jul 18, 12:02 PM ET Sent 1 times

    NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has made a movie of the moon passing in front of the Earth from the probe's vantage point millions of miles away.

  18. Mars Lander Prepares for Second Ice Sample SPACE.com - Fri Jul 18, 2:45 PM ET Sent 1 times

    NASA scientists planned to instruct the Phoenix Mars Lander to test out its method for shaving and collecting ice for a second time Friday.

  19. In this Philippine Eagle Foundation handout photo, an endangered Philippine Eagle nicknamed "Kagsabua", a tribal word meaning "unity," is seen in the forest of Kitanglad national park in Bukidnon province. A farmer has been detained by police after he confessed to shooting and eating "Kagsabua" one of the world's largest and rarest eagles, wildlife officials told AFP on July 18.(AFP/AFP)
    Farmer arrested for killing, eating rare Philippines eagle: officials AFP - Fri Jul 18, 12:24 PM ET Sent 1 times

    DAVAO, Philippines (AFP) - A farmer has been detained by southern Philippines police after he confessed to shooting and eating one of the world's largest and rarest eagles, wildlife officials told AFP on Friday.

  20. This image provided by the European Space Agency Monday July 14, 2008 shows an image taken by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet. Echus Chasma is the source region of Kasei Valles which extends 1,864 miles (3000 km) to the north. The data was acquired on Sept. 25, 2005. (AP Photo/European Space Agency)
    How Mars and Alaska Are Alike SPACE.com - Thu Jul 17, 2:30 PM ET Sent 1 times

    Little did Bucknell University geology professors Craig Kochel and Jeffrey Trop know, as they were working in Alaska, that they would soon predict one of the most important planetary observations ever made.

  21. The Future of Babies: Artificial Wombs and Pregnant Grandmas LiveScience.com - Wed Jul 16, 1:21 PM ET Sent 1 times

    Artificial wombs and experiments on human embryos grown in the lab will be commonplace and no big deal ethically in 30 years, several scientists predict.

  22. Sexy People Sound Better LiveScience.com - Wed Jul 16, 8:51 AM ET Sent 1 times

    People with voices deemed sexy and attractive tend to have greater body symmetry upon close inspection, suggesting that what we hear in a person can greatly affect what we see in them.

  23. Cave Men Loved to Sing LiveScience.com - Thu Jul 3, 1:01 AM ET Sent 1 times

    Ancient hunters painted the sections of their cave dwellings where singing, humming and music sounded best, a new study suggests.

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