Article Summaries

2 article summaries will be collected at the end of each marking period (1st-3rd).  You have the opportunity to do a 3rd for 10 points extra credit. They should pertain to curriculum covered during those 10 weeks.

Requirements

Useful websites:
ScienceNews
ScienceDaily
Science News - The New York Times
FirstScience
e! Science News
Discover 
Scientific American
Popular Science 
Science on msnbc
Yahoo science

By topic:
Illegal Exotic Pet Trade - poor sloths
Death by a Thousand Cuts': Coal Boom Could Destroy Great Barrier Reef
India Bans Captive Dolphin Shows
Honeybees are Still Dying 
Dogs and Humans Evolved Together, Study Suggests
New Carbon Dioxide Level Unseen in Human History
The Tragic Plight of Lions in Africa
Clues to Understanding How Stem Cells Produce Different Kinds of Cells
Criminal Minds are Different than Yours 
Boston Psychiatrist Wants Accused Bomber's Brain Studied
CTE Detected in Living Ex-NFL Players
Toddler Born Without a Windpipe gets Artifical Trachea
Florida Battles Giant African Land Snail Invasion 
Scientists Decode DNA of "Living Fossil" Fish 
Big Brain Projects
Bidder Pays 6 Million for Crick DNA letter
Inspired by deep sea sponges: Creating Flexible Materials 
Why Dolphins Wear Sponges 
Bat Eating Spiders
Can the Prairie Dog be Saved? 
Water Trapped for 1.5 Billion Years Could Hold Ancient Life
It's the Right time for Congress to Recognize Darwin 
What is a Hox Gene? 
Scientists Develop Hypo-Allergenic Apples
Hox Genes in Human Lung
Even Ancient Mummies had Clogged Arteries
Allergic Teen Dies After Eating Cookie 
7 Steps to Cut Cancer Risk  
5-Organ Transplant Patient Gives Birth
Aspirin Linked to lower risk of skin cancer 
The Case for and Against the Soda Ban 
Bee Venom Can Kill the HIV Virus
Mouse drop targets Guam's brown tree snake 
Melting Permafrost: Scientists Warn of Dangers of Trapped Carbon 
Allows you to Live without Breathing
Problem-solving Bacteria Crack Sudoku
Michigan State and the Wolverine Massacre
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Kills Seven in One Family 
Death of the Dinosaurs: New Proof of Asteroid Impact 
Supreme Court to Hear Major DNA Case
Genetically Modified Cells Could Prevent Death from HIV/AIDS
Texas BioLab Loses Deadly Virus
4 Stranded DNA
RePOOPulate
McDonalds Installing DNA Security Systems
DNA Cloning Expands into New Horizons
DNA Fingerprinting
DNA of Newtown Shooter to be Studied

Florida Asks FDA Approval to Eliminate Dengue Fever With Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
Nurses Fired over Refusing to get Flu Vaccine 
Flu Shots Working

Scientists make embryo using genes from 2 women and 1 man 
Cell Communication - G protein coupled receptor discovery
Popcorn Lung
Beige Cells fight Obesity
Creating Gold (thank you for finding this article, Andrew - GO GREEN!)
Genes
Epigenetics 
Biotechnology (Human Growth Hormone made by bacteria) 
Health and Medicine 
Cystic Fibrosis
Glowing Brain Tumors
Diabetes
Environment 
Living World 
Human Origins 
Evolution (first shark hybrid) 
Discovery of New Monkey
Rare Blue Lobster
Evolution (Extinct Galapagos Tortoise Reappears) 
Animal Behavior (dolphins) 
Plastic Chokes Oceans and Trashes Beaches
Giant Galapagos Tortoise Dies
Symbiotic Ants
Quadriplegic Moves Fingers After Nerve Surgery
Delayed Drowning
Gray Whales
Parkinson's Disease 
Experimental Cancer Drug (Immune System)
Brain tapeworms 1
Brain tapeworms 2