Archaeology & Paleontology

Tyrannosaurs Hunted and Scavenged, Fossils Suggest (LiveScience, July 13)

Oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem discovered by Hebrew University (EurekAlert, July 12)

Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way (NPR, July 12)

Archaeology find sheds new light on family pets (PhysOrg, July 12)

Old Bones Yield a New Age of Dinosaurs in Thailand (N.Y. Times, July 12) Site requires free registration

Help Find Genghis Khan’s Tomb From the Comfort of Your Home (Wired, July 11)

'Biggest canal ever built by Romans' discovered (Telegraph, July 11)

Historians locate King Arthur's Round Table (Telegraph, July 11)

Coral tests show fast construction pace for Polynesian temples (PhysOrg, July 9)

Environment

BP installs new sealing cap on leaking Gulf oil well (BBC News, July 13)

Businesses 'profit from investing in nature' (BBC News, July 13)

How much damage has the BP oil spill done? (BBC News, July 13

U.S. Issues New Offshore Oil Drilling Ban (Planet Ark/Reuters, July 13)

Exploration & Adventure

Heads up: Louis-Philippe Loncke solo Iceland crossing (ExplorersWeb, July 7)

Medicine & Health

Being Obese Can Cost a Man Eight Years (LiveScience, July 13)

Human Brains "Evolve," Become Less Monkey-Like With Age (National Geographic News, July 12)

How Microbes Defend and Define Us (N.Y. Times, July 12) Site requires free registration

New Scan May Spot Alzheimer’s (N.Y. Times, July 12) Site requires free registration

Surgery: Poorest 2 Billion Remain in Dire Need of Fully Functioning Operating Rooms (N.Y. Times, July 12) Site requires free registration

Scientists create army of tumor-fighting immune cells and watch as they attack cancer (PhysOrg, July 12)

'Voice Blind' Man Befuddled By Mysterious Callers (NPR, July 12)

Arsenic shows promise as cancer treatment, study finds (PhysOrg, July 12)

Peoples & Culture

Revealing Japan's low-tech belly (BBC News, July 13)

Study finds that mood music affects how women react to a man's advances (Washington Post, July 13) Site requires free registration

Expecting the Unexpected Does Not Improve One's Chances of Seeing It, New Study Finds (ScienceDaily, July 12)

Choir to sing the 'code of life' (BBC News, July 10)

The Fes Festival: Sacred Music From Around The World (NPR, July 10)

Newest friends on Facebook? Pakistan militants. (Christian Science Monitor, July 8)

Natural Disasters & Weather

Deadly landslides hit south-west China (BBC News, July 13)

La Nina To Form In July As Storm, Drought Fears Flare (Planet Ark/Reuters, July 12)

Typhoons carry carbon out to sea (Nature News, July 12)

Amazon Hit by Its Own Katrina (ScienceNOW, July 12)

Six months after the Haiti earthquake, what progress? (Christian Science Monitor, July 12)

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

Rising Sea Drives Panama Islanders To Mainland (Planet Ark/Reuters, July 13)

Rare mix of geological factors created rich but dangerous reserves [Gulf of Mexico] (Washington Post, July 13) Site requires free registration

Jane Goodall: "It seems hard to believe it's been half a century. And yet it doesn't seem like yesterday, either." (Washington Post, July 13) Site requires free registration

Huge chunk of ice breaks off of glacier in Greenland (Christian Science Monitor, July 12)

Towering undersea volcano mapped off Indonesia (Google News/AP, July 12)

A Scientist Takes On Gravity [Physicist Erik Verlinde] (N.Y. Times, July 12) Site requires free registration

Living with the memories of Srebrenica, 15 years on (BBC News, July 11)

Iran's grim history of death by stoning (BBC News, July 9)

Plants & Animals

Japanese monkey deaths puzzle (Nature News, July 13)

Hormone study finds monkeys in long-term relationship look strangely human (PhysOrg, July 13)

Insects as Model Animals (N.Y. Times, July 12) Site requires free registration

Love Among Finches: It’s Not All About Looks (N.Y. Times, July 12) Site requires free registration

A Mass Mating Signal Over the Smoky Mountains [Fireflies] (N.Y. Times, July 12) Site requires free registration

If whales could shout, they would (L.A. Times, July 11)

Two New "Walking" Batfish Species Found (National Geographic News, July 9)

Chatting chimps in Uganda, Africa are 'socially aware' (BBC News, July 9)

Science & Technology

Microsoft, partners to push tablet computer rivals to iPad (PhysOrg, July 12)

Harnessing Microbes to Clean Water and Create Energy (LiveScience, July 12)

Aircraft Completes First Solar-Powered Night Flight (Planet Ark/Reuters, July 9)

Space

Sun Eruption That May Have Spawned Zombie Satellite Identified (Space.com, July 13)

Tighten Those Purse Strings, Scientists Tell NASA (ScienceNOW, July 13)

Japanese Solar Sail Successfully Rides Sunlight (Space.com, July 12)

European Space Agency looking closely at asteroid (Washington Post, July 10) Site requires free registration

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