Archaeology & Paleontology

Stone Age Superglue Found -- Hints at Unknown Smarts? (National Geographic News, May 11)

China's "first emperor" banned Buddhism, expert says (Xinhaunet, May 11)

The king of Stonehenge: Were artefacts at ancient chief's burial site Britain's first Crown Jewels? (Daily Mail, May 11)

Biggest Trilobite Sea Beasts Found ... in Swarms (National Geographic News, May 11)

200,000 year old human hair found in dung (Telegraph.co, May 9)

Environment

Better Water Use Could Reduce Future Food Crises (Seed Daily, May 12)

Existing gas power plants could pump out hydrogen (New Scientist, May 12)

Fuel-Cell Car Rally Opens Norway's Hydrogen Highway (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 12)

Rare island species 'undervalued' (BBC News, May 12)

US Climate Bill Unlikely To Pass This Year - Experts (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 11)

Researchers Eye Better Use For Biomass Than Ethanol (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 11)

'Distributed power' to save Earth (BBC News, May 11)

Whaling peace talks 'fall short' (BBC News, May 11)

Iron Hypothesis Dealt A Blow (Terra Daily, May 11)

High human impact ocean areas along US West Coast revealed (ENN, May 11)

Nations gather for oceans talks in Indonesia (Terra Daily, May 9)

Exploration & Adventure

Expedition to promote 2010 World Cup (Independent Online, May 11)

Oceans in peril [Alexandra Cousteau's water conservation tour.] (NOLA.com, May 11)

Sherpa swept away in Mount Everest avalanche (Salt Lake Tribune, May 10)

Adventurer plans North Pole trek (NewsOK.com, May 10)

Medicine & Health

Swine flu spread matches previous flu pandemics (Nature News, May 11)

Vitamins Found to Curb Exercise Benefits (N.Y. Times, May 11) Site requires free registration

New Machine Pumps Disembodied Heart (Yahoo!/LiveScience, May 11)

Chemical clue to dementia decline (BBC News, May 11)

Scientists offer thalidomide clue (BBC News, May 11)

Weight 'fuels preventable cancer' (BBC News, May 11)

Outbreaks Put Worry on the Table [Has eating become more dangerous?] (N.Y. Times, May 10) Site requires free registration

New High Blood Pressure Genes Identified (Science Daily, May 10)

Peoples & Culture

How brain chemicals can help soldiers keep their heads (New Scientist, May 12)

A Hit in School, Maggots and All [Students learn about forensic science.] (N.Y. Times, May 11) Site requires free registration

Judging Honesty by Words, Not Fidgets (N.Y. Times, May 11) Site requires free registration

Tracing Americans' African roots is no mean feat (New Scientist, May 11)

Are we all capable of violence? (BBC News, May 11)

Men 'suffering recession blues' (BBC News, May 10)

Natural Disasters & Weather

World's Largest Tornado Experiment Heads For Great Plains (Terra Daily, May 12)

California Fire Claims 77 Homes, Tools Suspected (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 12)

Rise Of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age (Terra Daily, May 11)

Brazil floods leave 44 dead, 126,000 homeless (Terra Daily, May 9)

Global and U.S. Hazards/Climate Extremes (updated weekly on Wednesdays)

Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet [pdf] (updated late Fridays)

People & Places in the News

Swine Flu Migrates to China and Japan (N.Y. Times, May 11) Site requires free registration

Mexican genomes show wide diversity (Yahoo!/AP, May 11)

US sees confirmed flu cases rise (BBC News, May 11)

China Outpaces U.S. in Cleaner Coal-Fired Plants (N.Y. Times, May 10) Site requires free registration

Greenland's Constant Summer Sunlight Linked To Summer Suicide Spike (Science Daily, May 10)

Plants & Animals

Largest herd of gazelles sighted (BBC News, May 12)

Project launched to fight frog-killing fungus (Yahoo!/AP, May 11)

Case Closed On Shark Mystery (Washington Post, May 11) Site requires free registration

New Species Thrives In Extremely High Temperature And Pressure (Science Daily, May 11)

Communal Stomach Of An Ant Colony (Science Daily, May 11)

Earliest animal traces solve time-gap mystery (New Scientist, May 11)

Evolution is slowing snails down (BBC News, May 11)

Flight Of The Bumble Bee Is Based More On Brute Force Than Aerodynamic Efficiency (Science Daily, May 10)

Science & Technology

Carbon that cracks diamond (Nature News, May 12)

Plugging Holes in the Science of Forensics (N.Y. Times, May 11) Site requires free registration

Engineered Moss Can Produce Human Proteins (Science Daily, May 11)

Tracking Cyberspies Through the Web Wilderness (N.Y. Times, May 11) Site requires free registration

Evolving autopilots could boost space slingshots (New Scientist, May 11)

Digital Field Guides Eliminate the Guesswork (N.Y. Times, May 11) Site requires free registration

Putting The Squeeze On A Crystal Leads To Novel Electronics (Science Daily, May 10)

New Robot With Artificial Skin To Improve Human Communication (Science Daily, May 9)

Space

NASA astronauts speed toward risky Hubble mission (Yahoo!/AFP, May 12)

The Day The Universe Froze: New Model For Dark Energy (Science Daily, May 11)

"Supergiant" Asteroid Shut Down Mars's Magnetic Field (National Geographic News, May 11)

Shuttle blasts off to fix Hubble (BBC News, May 11)

World's most daunting parking job [Europe's Herschel and Planck telescopes go into space.] (BBC News, May 10)

Lectures, Meetings, & Conferences

Sources:

Conference Calendar for Zoology (BIOSIS)

Meridian International Center Events

National Academy of Sciences Events

National Air and Space Museum Events

National Journal Daybook [includes environment-related events in Washington]

National Museum of Natural History Events

National Press Club

Smithsonian Resident Associate Programs