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New York (CNN) -- The "Occupy Wall Street" protests are scheduled to go on Friday as the grassroots movement continues to grow, spread to other cities and grab the attention of the president. President Barack Obama said Thursday that the demonstrators are giving a voice to those frustrated with the financial system as protests popped up in more than a dozen American cities.

More scientists in Washington started talking, and 24 hours later everyone is asking more questions. As word spread that infectious salmon anemia, a deadly virus that has devastated farmed fish in Chile, had been found for the first time in prized wild Pacific salmon, there remained much uncertainty about the finding and what its potential impact could be.

"Mike Daisey did not uncover underage or disfigured workers in China, a fact that should have become obvious under proper scrutiny. At the time, it seemed like too good a story to let fact-checking get in the way. "This American Life" would deeply regret that decision. This week, the entire field of sports journalism is facing a similar moment of self-reflection after learning that several reputable journalists unwittingly helped spread the tragic - and completely false - story of Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o's deceased girlfriend."

Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, was fatally shot on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. The next day his death was a top story on the Fox-affiliated television station in Orlando, the closest big city to Sanford. Within a week it was being covered by newspapers around the state. But it took several weeks before the rest of the country found out. It was not until mid-March, after word spread on Facebook and Twitter, that the shooting of Trayvon by George Zimmerman, 26, was widely reported by the national news media, highlighting the complex ways that news does and does not travel in the Internet age.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned it may not have enough money to bail out larger eurozone countries if the debt crisis were to spread.

Follow the Odor and CO2: Flight Patterns Reveal How Mosquitoes Find Hosts to Transmit Deadly Diseases ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2011) - The carbon dioxide we exhale and the odors our skins emanate serve as crucial cues to female mosquitoes on the hunt for human hosts to bite and spread diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever. Two entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have now performed experiments to study how female Aedes aegypti -- mosquitoes that transmit yellow fever and dengue -- respond to plumes of carbon dioxide and human odor.

As the European financial crisis threatens to drag the global economy back into recession, leaders from Washington to Beijing are calling for Eurozone leaders to intensify their efforts to contain the spreading contagion.

The film begins on "Day 2" of the existence of a new type of flu, which gives two people in the world a slight cough. It is clear that this virus, whatever it is, is spreading like wildfire. For a while, though, the only vaccine doctors can give is the advice: "Don't talk to anyone. Don't touch anyone."

One of the four presidents of Invisible Children, senior Aurora James-Palmer, felt strongly that this art show was able to bring their club back to the Invisible Children Organization's main idea. "The main organization of Invisible Children is about using different mediums of art," she said. "We wanted to bring it back to the arts to bring awareness on the topic." Having this tricky tray art show was a great way of spreading awareness the way that this organization initially was initially designed. In 2003, Invisible Children was founded by three college filmmakers making a documentary in Africa. They became so moved by what was going on in not only to the child soldiers in Darfur but all of Uganda so they used their movies to bring awareness to the cause. According to the Invisible Children website, "We are storytellers. We are visionaries, humanitarians, artists, and entrepreneurs. We are individuals apart of a generation eager for change and willing to pursue it." James-Palmer and the entire Invisible Children Club wanted this event to touch the entire Central community and spread their message. "[People gained] knowledge of the situation, understood the cause, was inspired to take action and used their talent to get the message out," she said.

Sending a message through the arts. This is exactly what Hunterdon Central's Invisible Children Club did on Wednesday May 4 in the Commons. Combining forces with the National Art Honor Society, Invisible Children created the Children of Uganda Art Show, an event that consisted of a bake sale, live music, and a tricky tray art show where students could actually get art pieces for NAHS members. The artwork was the center of the show, with people being able to look at all of the amazing pieces inspired by the Invisible Children and Ugandan culture.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's top leader said Wednesday that the wave of protests spreading from New York's Wall Street to other U.S. cities reflects a serious crisis that will ultimately topple capitalism in America.

As the Occupy Wall Street protests have spread to dozens of cities across the country, some iReporters have voiced their opinions about the misleading representation of who the protesters really are.

"BlackBerry's Thorny Problem Chokes Service in North America The Great BlackBerry Blackout of 2011 has spread to cover North America, bringing the days-long problem to even more users. RIM says the messaging and browsing problems impacting BlackBerry subscribers were due to a core switch failure within its infrastructure. Apparently, the system's designed to failover to a backup switch, but the switch didn't work as it should have, resulting in a large backlog of data. Research In Motion's (Nasdaq: RIMM) continuing BlackBerry service disruptions hit customers in North America Wednesday. This makes the disruptions, which first emerged in Europe, the Middle East and Africa on Monday, a worldwide phenomenon. RIM states that subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent service delays this morning, that it's working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible, and that it will provide a further update when it can. "I don't know why, but RIM won't say anything other than that they know what the problem is and they're working on it," Craig Mathias, a principal at the Farpoint Group and a mobile communications expert at Focus.com, told TechNewsWorld. Asked whether the outage has affected BlackBerry Enterprise Server or is limited to BlackBerry Internet Services, Mathias indicated the situation is unclear. "Nobody seems to know anything," he said."

As natural gas drilling has spread across the country, energy industry representatives have sat down at kitchen tables in states like Texas, Pennsylvania and New York to offer homeowners leases that give companies the right to drill on their land.

As natural gas drilling has spread across the country, energy industry representatives have sat down at kitchen tables in states like Texas, Pennsylvania and New York to offer homeowners leases that give companies the right to drill on their land.

Advanced math and science aren't usually a part of a big Hollywood thriller, particularly one with "Contagion's" cast: not just Winslet and Paltrow but Matt Damon, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne and Marion Cotillard, along with a cameo by CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta. But Burns and director Steven Soderbergh approached the project in an unusually dedicated way.