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Lead poisoning stymies condor recovery Iconic species may not stand on its own without complete shift to nontoxic ammunition Web edition : Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 The California condor's return to flying free in the wild after a close brush with extinction may be an illusory recovery.

Dinosaur debate gets cooking Researchers deflate evidence for cold-blooded dinosaurs Web edition : Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 Life stories written in mammal bones are being used to debunk a key argument for cold-bloodedness in dinosaurs.

Treatment helps paralyzed rats walk Combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and therapy restores lost connections Web edition : Thursday, May 31st, 2012 Scientists have trained paralyzed rats to walk, run and even climb stairs. Weeks of rigorous practice coupled with an electrochemical spine-stimulating regimen allowed the animals to overcome devastating spinal cord injuries that immobilized their rear legs, Swiss scientists report in the June 1 Science.

Peacocks ruffle feathers, make a rumble Male birds emit low-pitched sounds inaudible to human ears Web edition : Monday, June 18th, 2012 ALBUQUERQUE - Unbeknownst to humans, peacocks may be having infrasonic conversations. New recordings reveal that males showing off their feathers make deep rumbling sounds that are too low pitched for humans to hear.

Invasive mite worsens honeybee viruses Parasite's move into Hawaiian islands lets obscure pathogen go big and bad Web edition : Friday, June 8th, 2012 A mite that parasitizes honeybees can turn formerly small-time, local virus strains into widespread, dominant hazards.

Psychologist suggests synthesthesia may underlie creature's apparent memory feats Web edition : Friday, June 15th, 2012 View the video In what seems like a blow for humanity, a very smart chimpanzee in Japan crushes any human challenger at a number memory game.

Giant celestial disk hard to explain Star's oversized debris ring challenges theories of planet formation Web edition : Friday, June 15th, 2012 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - About 80 light-years away, an enormous, dusty ring swirls around a sunlike star, with a defined inner edge that is probably sculpted by a planet orbiting at 140 times Earth's distance from the sun.

Grasshoppers' terror outlives them Carcasses of jumpy insects taint soil Web edition : Thursday, June 14th, 2012 Terrified insects can haunt their homeland after they die. Chemical remnants of fear in the rotting corpses of grasshoppers slow the decomposition of dead grass and other debris important for fertilizing new plant growth, a new study finds.

In this article it talks about how a Nuclear Bombs could Save the Earth from Asteroids. It also talks about how how large they are and how they could effect the earth

A solar sneeze, a superhot planet, the death of a comet and more in this week's news Web edition : Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 Someone should teach the Sun some manners. When it sneezed on June 7, the sun blew an enormous glob of dark plasma into space - and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught it on tape.