Pythons Overtake Everglades

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/338461/title/FOR_KIDS_Pythons_overtake_Everglades

Burmese pythons let loose in the Florida Everglades are a problem for the swamplands’ alligators and mammals.

Credit: Bob DeGross/NPS

Not So Fast: Scientists Rethink Stunning, Faster-than-Light Particle Finding

By Emory Kim


http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/22/loose-wire-led-to-stunning-faster-than-light-particle-finding/

Light trails made by a passing bus illuminate the night sky in front of Britain's Houses of Parliament in London, February 4, 2010. (Reuters/Luke Macgregor)

'World of Warcraft' May Help the Elderly Studies Show

By Emory Kim


http://www.ingame.msnbc.msn.com/technology/ingame/world-warcraft-may-help-elderly-studies-show-176285

 Blizzard Entertainment        

Newly Discovered Legless Amphibians Are Horrifying

By Emory Kim


http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/21/newly-discovered-legless-amphibians-are-horrifying/

A doting caecilian mother coils around her eggs, which will hatch out mini-adults within two to three months. 

(SD Biju, www.frogindia.org)

What Happens to Boiling Water at -22? - Video

By Miss Thomas


http://www.weather.com/weather/videos/news-41/top-stories-169/what-happens-to-boiling-water-at--22-19419

redfishbluefish.net

Origami Robots Run Only On Air - Includes Video

By Luca Pistor


http://www.kurzweilai.net/origami-robots-run-only-on-air?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter+Plain+Text&utm_campaign=bcf969c7e0-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email

Soft pneumatic actuators based on composites consisting of elastomers with embedded sheet or fiber structures that are flexible but not extensible combine soft lithography, for fabrication, with the principles of origami, for structural design. These actuators respond to pressurization with a wide range of motions, such as bending, extension, contraction, and twisting. (Credit: Ramses V. Martinez et al./Advanced Functional Materials)

Costs of Missing Sleep

By David Duncan


http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/02/costs-of-missing-sleep/

Believe it or not, scientists study fruit flies to learn more about how humans think. 

Credit: André Karwath

Whale Survives Harpoon Attack 130 Years Ago to Become 'World's Oldest Mammal'

By Nicholas Song


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-461703/Whale-survives-harpoon-attack-130-years-ago-worlds-oldest-mammal.html

130-year-old weapon: The shiny scars on the weapon are a result of the chain saw cut.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-461703/Whale-survives-harpoon-attack-130-years-ago-worlds-oldest-mammal.html

Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers Say

By Nicholas Song

http://news.yahoo.com/sugar-regulated-toxin-researchers-180605186.html

Magnification of grains of refined sucrose, the most common free sugar.

Lauri Andler (Phantom)