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By Melissa Gaskill of Nature magazine The 1,000 kilometers of impenetrable barrier constructed along the Mexico-United States border, with the aim of stemming illegal human immigration, is also hampering the movements of animals, including several endangered species, a recent study finds. The species most at risk are those with smaller populations and specialized habitats, says Jesse Lasky, a graduate student at the University of Texas, Austin, and an author on the study, published in Diversity and Distributions

The pathway to approving many new medical devices is broken beyond the point of repair, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). [More]

* OK to provide aid in areas controlled by al Shabaab * Spreading famine may soon engulf all southern Somalia [More]

By Daniel Cressey of Nature magazine Chaperone proteins could be the key to treating a range of diseases, including some cancers. [More]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vermont health regulators said on Tuesday they found a fish containing radioactive material in the Connecticut River near Entergy's Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant which could be another setback for Entergy to keep it running. The state said it needs to do more testing to determine the source of the Strontium-90, which can cause bone cancer and leukemia. [More]

Flying about 460 meters above the seas off Alaska in 2004 on the hunt for bowhead whales, federal wildlife biologist Charles Monnett and colleagues spotted four white blobs floating in the water. The white blobs were polar bears , which drowned in the open ocean following a powerful Arctic storm.

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By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine Was the case a fluke or a forewarning? Now that a federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to halt US government funding of research using human embryonic stem cells, scientists who depend on that support are left wondering whether the battle is truly over, or is merely moving on to a different arena. Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued his decision on 27 July, acknowledging a higher court's opinion that overruled a preliminary injunction that he had placed to suspend the funding last August (see 'Trying times' )

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine It was one of the most dramatic sightings ever made in an aerial survey of the Arctic: a dead polar bear, bloated like a gigantic beach ball, floating in open water north of the Beaufort Sea coastline in Alaska. Researchers say that they spotted four dead polar bears during the survey, and surmised that the bears drowned in stormy waters as they searched for ever-receding sea ice

NASA's space shuttle fleet will never fly again, but the agency believes it still has plenty to learn from the iconic vehicles. [More]

In many developing countries, teenage girls' days are filled with hard labor as they enter into an adulthood of second-class citizenship. Now, a study finds, climate change threatens to make girls' lives even harder. The report from the nonprofit Plan U.K., as well as the U.K.

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* Heavy rains likely in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic * One meteorologist says "uncertainty" over Emily's path [More]