- Bill Clinton says he "wouldn't be surprised" if aliens visited Earth—"The former president shares his thoughts on extraterrestrials with Jimmy Kimmel." Salon
- NASA detects ocean inside Saturn Moon, potential home for extraterrestrial microbes
- North Carolina Town Councilman Resigns In Klingon
- The Most Impressive Costumes from Star Trek: TNG's First 3 Seasons
- Eau My, available on Amazon—"Set phasers to stunning."
- Planetology comes of age—"Those who study planets orbiting other stars now have plenty of data to play with.
- Scientists Home In On Earth-Sized Exoplanet
- NASA Has Discovered 715 New Planets
- Planet Biden: Scientists Nickname New Dwarf Planet After The VP
- Distant galaxy cluster is so huge it can actually bend light—"MACS J0454.1-0300 is 180 trillion times the mass of our sun." Salon
- Milky Way Galaxy Has Four Spiral Arms, New Study Confirms
- Hubble Opens Pandora's Box, and Thousands of Galaxies Fly Out
- Star Birth Sparked at the Galaxy's Edge—"Gas from another galaxy is hitting our own, triggering the birth of bright new stars and adding fresh luster to the Milky Way."
- Where Do Galaxies Come From?
- The Most Massive Object in the Universe—How Was It Created?
- Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes'—"Notion of an 'event horizon', from which nothing can escape, is incompatible with quantum theory, physicist claims."
- Lasers to Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox?
- Gravity - From Newton to Einstein - The Elegant Universe
- The Fight for Wisconsin's Soul—"Gov. Scott Walker granted a company astonishing latitude to construct a mine and pollute pristine waters." NYT
- Neighbors bicker in PA. over forced gas drilling—"An energy company is dusting off an old, unused state law that can force property owners to accept oil and gas drilling under their land, pitting neighbor against neighbor in a Pennsylvania community and raising the possibility that lawmakers will have to take sides."
- Australian government may ban environmental boycotts—"Parliamentary secretary says there is 'an appetite' for removing environmental groups' exemption from secondary boycotts ban."
- China Wants To Close 1,725 Coal Mines By The End Of This Year
- North Carolina judge denies secrecy motion in trial over coal ash spill—"A North Carolina judge on Friday denied Duke Energy's motion seeking to shield records related to groundwater pollution leeching from 33 coal ash dumps in the state while a separate federal criminal investigation is ongoing."
- Judge says no to Lake O polluting—"A federal judge ruled Friday in New York that backpumping — the practice of taking water from Lake Okeechobee, using it on farm lands and then discharging the nutrient-laden water back into the lake — is a violation of the Clean Water Act and that the state of Florida should no longer permit such operations."
- Lowe's pays $18.1 million to settle violations—"The civil suit filed in Alameda County alleges that the offending stores routinely sent hazardous waste — from aerosols and pesticides to paints and electronic products — to local landfills that were not permitted to receive it."
- Famous paintings help study the Earth's past atmosphere
- 29 dead dolphins found since Galveston oil spill
- Congress's Scientific Illiterates Are Resigning the World to Ruin—"Scientists are begging the world to address climate change. Meet the handful of American science deniers who are ensuring it won't happen."
- The House of Representatives Committee on Science is turning into a national embarrassment
- The right's new climate change lie: It's all the scientists' fault—"Conservative hucksters argue scientists are politicizing their work. They're wrong -- and climate change is real." Salon
- MPs criticise BBC over climate change reporting—BBC "editors were 'poor' at determining viewers' and listeners' level of expertise and sometimes pitted lobbyists against 'top scientists' as if their views had 'equal weight.'"
- Exxon Mobil says climate change unlikely to stop it selling fossil fuels—"Oil giant issues report on risks that climate policies could pose to the value of its assets and future profitability."
- Japan accepts court ban on Antarctic whaling—It ain't scientific.
- Will Japan find a way around anti-whaling ruling?
- Big threat to Japan whaling: Declining appetites—"The amount of whale meat stockpiled for lack of buyers has nearly doubled over 10 years, even as anti-whaling protests helped drive catches to record lows."
- Germany Opens Hearings On NSA Spying, Want To Offer Safe Passage For Snowden To Come To Berlin
- Obama's NSA overhaul may require phone carriers to store more data
- Obama's promise to prevent NSA spying rings hollow
- New Harris poll finds NSA spying affecting online commerce—Hurting the corporate bottom line.
- ACLU database lets anyone dig into NSA activities
- Interactive Graphic: The NSA Spying Machine
- NSA Has Been Hijacking the Botnets of Other Hackers
- U.S. Pushes Canada To Loosen Privacy Laws—"The U.S. government is prodding Ottawa and some provinces to overhaul their privacy laws and allow Canadians' personal data to be hosted on U.S. servers."
- U.S. knocks plans for European communication network—"The United States on Friday criticized proposals to build a European communication network to avoid emails and other data passing through the United States, warning that such rules could breach international trade laws." Oh, the hypocrisy.
- Websites Must Use HSTS in Order to Be Secure—That's the HTTP Strict Transport Security.
- Can Yahoo's enhanced encryption stop the NSA from spying?
- Physicists are building an NSA-proof internet
