a proposal by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) for a RICO investigation of fossil fuel corporations and their supporters, who the scientists allege have deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, with the consequence of forestalling America’s response to reducing carbon emissions.

Senator Whitehouse singled out one climate scientist, Willie Soon, a solar physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who argues that changes in solar radiation, rather than carbon emissions, are the major force behind global warming.

Many airlines, including Lufthansa, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, already refuse to carry research primates...

under the pressure of PETA and other ilk (I am actually shocked that airlines caved without even a whimper in any major news source). Author of the first article proposes that scientists should take a stand against luddites:

Picture a crowd of scientists waving placards plastered with photographs of stroke victims and sufferers of Parkinson's disease. They are demonstrating outside the corporate headquarters of British Airways, Lufthansa and Delta, demanding that the airlines stop impeding the biomedical research that could deliver big advances against these and other diseases.

if scientists want continued access to animals as research models, they will have to appear on the front line with every bit as much visibility, determination, organization and persistence as animal-rights activists now muster.

The scheme unwound when a sharp-eyed federal worker in charge of reviewing phone bills for the General Services Administration noticed a pattern of split-second calls to 800-lines in July and tipped GSA's inspector general's office

Songs were viewed as spectrographs, and all units in a song session were transcribed by human classifiers based on the visual and aural qualities of the sound as in multiple other published humpback whale song studies

Cases have grown from a handful in 2002 to 500 worldwide in 2008, they report in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

In the wake of the shootings in Oslo and Utøya, Norway’s government announced that Norwegian society would remain “free and open in the eyes of terror,” and that the country would not react in the same way that other previously democratic nations have to terrorist acts, by restricting freedom. They would not become victim to terrorism, and they would not alter how they lived their lives. Clearly uninterested in following what the government has said, Coop Norway Retail, a large retail chain, announced that it would cease to carry 51 gaming brands and toys that could—in their belief—invoke the threat of terrorism. These products include the ever popular World of Warcraft, and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which were cited as active influences by the killer Anders Behring Breivik.

Any public discussion of the contingency plans is forbidden "for political reasons," says one high-level official, explaining that the government can't look like it's preparing for a shutdown. Even internal e-mails are now verboten, this source said; instead, planning has been done the old-fashioned way, by word of mouth.

One study, from the Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge, has for the first time identified 24-hour rhythms in red blood cells. This is significant because circadian rhythms have always been assumed to be linked to DNA and gene activity, but — unlike most of the other cells in the body — red blood cells do not have DNA.

another quote:

The researchers in this study found the rhythms by sampling the peroxiredoxins in algae at regular intervals over several days. When the algae were kept in darkness, their DNA was no longer active, but the algae kept their circadian clocks ticking without active genes.

The Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment recorded motions of the ground from moonquakes and other activities generating sound waves until late 1977. The network was too limited to directly monitor waves bouncing off or scattered by the moon's core, leaving scientists dependent on more indirect techniques, such as measuring minute gravitational changes, to craft a picture of the moon's interior. Those models turned out to be pretty accurate, says lead scientist Renee Weber, with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.