[1] Help wanted to write Book of Life; A virtual book of all life on earth is being created by U.K. and U.S. scientists; the online reference work will create a detailed world map of flora and fauna and track changes in biodiversity…

[2] Rare bumblebee coming back to U.K.; A bumblebee which is extinct in the U.K. is to be reintroduced from New Zealand under plans being announced…

[3] Genetic survey finds that healthy human skin is crawling with bacteria; Think a good antibacterial handsoap is keeping your skin relatively microbe and bacteria free? You might want to think again…

[4] Cloaking Made Simpler, But Invisible Humans Not Yet A Reality; A new approach for manipulating light that doesn’t require sophisticated “metamaterials…”

[5] Cool Monkey News! Glowing Transgenic Monkeys! ‘Nuff said…

[6] New Evidence for Volcanoes as Sources of Mass Extinction; Paleontologists have found more solid evidence that volcanoes likely set off the Guadalupian mass extinction in the Middle Permian about 260 million years ago…

[7] North Korea follows up nuclear test with threats and missile tests; North Korea has continued to draw international ire following a nuclear test Monday by reportedly testing several short-range missiles and threatening to set aside the Korean War armistice of 1953…

[8] Here’s something likely to be controversial; Were our earliest hominid ancestors European? Read on…

[9] Now this is just cool: What String Theory is really good for; String Theory, You love it or loathe it.; To some it represents our best hope for a route to a “Theory of Everything…”