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Boys Who Lack Empathy Don’t React To A Fearful Face

Psychopaths can't connect emotionally. Researchers have thought that trait may be connected with an outsized drive for reward and an inability to register fearful expressions in others’ faces

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Rare All-White Kiwi Born in New Zealand Breeding Program

This year has already been the most successful breeding season to date for endangered North Island brown kiwis ( Apteryx mantelli ) at New Zealand's Pukaha Mount Bruce national wildlife center , and now the rangers who manage the program have an extra reason to celebrate: the May 1 birth of an extremely rare all-white kiwi . [More]

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Fatal Bat Disease Confirmed in All New England with Maine Find

By Zach Howard BUCKLAND, Mass (Reuters) - White nose syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed more than one million bats in the Northeast, has been found in Maine, the last New England state to discover it, wildlife officials said on Tuesday. [More]

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New Bacteria Lives on Caffeine

Think you live on caffeine? You're still no match for a newly described bitty bacteria called Pseudomonas putida CBB5

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Change Rattles Arecibo Radio Telescope

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine As Earth's biggest "ear" on the Universe, the giant 305-meter radio dish at Arecibo , Puerto Rico, has played a part in groundbreaking discoveries, searches for alien civilizations and the occasional Holly

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Project BudBurst

A network of citizen scientists across the U.S. who monitor plants as the seasons change [More]

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How Tornadoes Gain Power

The tornado that plowed a wide swath of death and destruction through Joplin, Mo., on Sunday unleashed winds of up to 198 miles per hour, federal forecasters said yesterday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's preliminary analysis ranks the twister as an F4, the second-highest rating on the five-point scale used to classify tornadoes. [More]

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Ash Cloud Hits Some European Flights But No Mass Shutdown

By Michael Holden and Omar Valdimarsson LONDON/REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - An ash cloud from a volcano on Iceland shut down flights in northern Britain and elsewhere in north Europe on Tuesday and was heading to Germany, but officials expected no repeat of last year's air chaos.

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