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• Celebrity Deaths: Homicidal and Accidental
  Everybody dies, but even after celebrities shuffle off this mortal coil their deaths get the Hollywood gloss. The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, didn’t die of a drug overdose; he was killed. This morning, one of Jackson’s physicians, Dr. Conrad ...
    Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:02:25 EST
  
  

• Digital 'Fort Knox' Hacked
  A hacking specialist reveals a weakness that can force heavily secured computers to spill their secrets.
    Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:05:00 EST
  
  

• When Earth Swallows a Continent
  Earth can do strange things to continents. Like eat them, for example. Previously, the planet's hot interior was only known to have an appetite for ocean crust, consuming it in subduction zones around the world. Continental crust was thought to ...
    Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:39:10 EST
  
  

• Spaced-Out Super Bowl Ads 2010
  The Super Bowl is over, the Saints won, but most importantly, were the commercials any good? (Is it me, or is Danica Patrick wearing less and less clothing every year?) On Friday I gave a brief rundown of some of ...
    Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:03:04 EST
  
  

• 'Thirdhand Smoke' May Pose Health Risk
  If smokers needed yet another reason to take it outside, here it is.
    Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:01:00 EST
  
  

• Older Mothers More Likely to Bear Autistic Children
  As births to older mothers have increased, so has the number of autism cases.
    Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:10:00 EST
  
  

• Ultra-Micro Wind: Coming to a Downtown Near You
  Ultra-Micro Urban Architectural Wind. A clumsy name for really small wind power; smaller even than the residential turbines sometimes pressed into service in the urban environment (because wind makes so much sense in these places, even if the technology doesn't ...
    Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:02:32 EST
  
  

• Super Beans Aim for the Sky
  I have some exciting bean news that bodes well for struggling smallholder farmers in Africa. The Rwanda Agricultural Research Institute announced that it has unveiled 15 varieties of climbing beans that put the common "bush bean" in the dust. The ...
    Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:42:00 EST
  
  

• Friday News Feedbag for February 5, 2010!
  If this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on iTunes and chat ...
    Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:54:05 EST
  
  

• Fewer Than 50 Wild Tigers Left in China
  Wildlife conservation programs around the world are desperately trying to keep the endangered cats from going extinct.
    Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:26:00 EST
  
  

• New Green Nuke Fuel Cleans Up Old, Dirty Fuel
  Using hollow cubes of a new, safer nuclear fuel known as thorium, scientists show they can soak up and remove radioactive uranium.
    Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:11:00 EST
  
  

• Beer Good for the Bones
  Some beers contain high amounts of silicon, a nutrient that helps strengthen bones, research finds.
    Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:24:00 EST
  
  

• Online Dating at 15: Despite Flaws, a Fruitful Tool
  The world of online dating remains murky, but it has proven to be a helpful tool for those who learn to navigate it.
    Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:42:00 EST
  
  

• A Farewell to Ice
  Sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean grew by an average of 13,000 square miles a day last month. Great news, right? Well, not so much. For one thing, it was January. Mid-winter. Sea ice cover is supposed to grow. ...
    Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:27:00 EST
  
  

• Mystery "X" Stands For "X-traterrestrial" to Some Believers
  When Hubble Space Telescope first photographed the strange comet-like object p/2010 a2 I just knew it would get attention among the X-Files crowd. The "X" pattern of dust debris, presumably from an asteroid collision, is simply arresting. Last week's release ...
    Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:50:36 EST
  
  

• L.A. Foothills Dig Out After Mudslides
  Heavy rains caused mud and water to overflow basins and flood streets and homes north of Los Angeles.
    Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:33:00 EST
  
  

• Space Shuttle Launch Delayed by Clouds
  NASA planned to try and launch Endeavour on Monday morning when weather predictions were somewhat better.
    Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:22:00 EST
  
  

• Boy Soldier, 14, UK's Youngest WWII Death
  Reginald Earnshaw lied about his age to enter the British navy and then died during a German attack in 1941.
    Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:31:00 EST
  
  

• Well Aged, and On the Rocks
  I remember well the first time I set foot on Antarctica. It was, amazing as it seems to me, almost exactly 17 years ago: February 11, 1993. I was co-leader of a Greenpeace expedition to find Japanese whaling ships in ...
    Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:14:42 EST
  
  

• 65,000-Year-Old Language Goes Extinct
  Boa Senior died last week, ending ancient Andaman culture Alok Das/ Survival International A tribal language thought to have existed for 65,000 years has disappeared forever in India's Andaman Islands, taken to the grave with its last speaker. According to ...
    Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:47:24 EST