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. You should include a summary, mention how it relates to something you learned in class and give a recommendation.
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:
Start Codons in DNA and RNA may be more numerous than previously thought
Research Techniques Made Simple: PCR
Are Cloned Animals Born Old?
Keeping CRISPR in Check
Scientists Seek to Map All Human Cells in Vast Atlas
Scientists have just discovered a main difference between DNA and RNA
Tracking a Parasite that Turns Bees into Zombies
Scientists have Improved the Vision of Blind Rats Using Gene Editing
Scientific American's Top 10 Science Stories of 2015
8 Ways to Maximize Telomere Length and Increase Life Expectancy
75 Percent of Animal Species Wiped Out in "Sixth Mass Extinction"
Vultures are Revolting. Here's Why We Need to Save Them.
Americans Love K-Cups, but Their Creator Regrets Inventing Them
Too Much Water Can Kill You
Absurd Creature of the Week: The Badass Snail that has a Shell Made of Iron
Why you should never make your bed
Millions of Genetically Modified Mosquitos Set to be Released
Small Yet Important Genetic Differences Between Highly Intelligent People and General Population
Bones in South African Cave Reveal New Human Relative
4 Ways Polar Bears Are Dealing With Climate Change
Do Bugs Sleep
A Tale of Two All-McDonald's Diets
Plastic Waste in Great Lakes creates many woes
Big-Box Retailer Phases Out Bee-Killing Pesticides
Flirty Female Spiders Use Silk to Capture a Male's Interest
How to Boost Your Immune System
Marijuana-like Chemicals in the Brain Calm Neurons
Sea World's New Ad is a Lie
Trail of Tools Reveals Modern Humans' Path out of Africa
Scientists Plan to Hunt for Alien Life on Europa
Filthy India Air Cutting 660 Million Lives Short by 3 Years
U.S. to allow genetically modified apples from Canada
Be my Biological Valentine
Flexible Moth Evolved Many Ways to Mate
DNA Reveals How Darwin's Finches Evolved
Green Sea Slug is Part Animal, Part Plant
Discovery of Bacteria that Hasn't Evolved in 2 Billion Years
Millions of GMO Insects Could Be Released in Florida Keys
GMO Alert: Top 10 genetically modified foods to avoid eating
80% of Americans Support Mandatory Labels on Foods Containing DNA.DNA!
Cause of ALS is Found, Northwestern Team says
See the tiny tank where this killer whale had been confined for 45 years
Mass Death of Seabirds in Western U.S.
Designer Babies Debate
New Genetic Clues Found in Fragile X Syndrome
Flu Activity Worsens Nationwide, CDC Reports
Influenza Virus RNA Genome
CDC: Flu shot less effective this year
More Room for Chickens Likely Means Costlier Eggs
Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm
Audubon's Christmas Bird Count Turns 115: Why Does it Matter?
Wolves and Bears Stage Comeback in Crowded, Urban Europe
How Scientists Found Deepest-Ever Fish 5 Miles Down
This Drug Could be Promising in Extending Life
Telomeres in Disease
Billionaire's New Science Institute Plans "Google Maps" View of Cells
Why Backyard Birds are Getting Drunk on Fermentation
OKAZAKI: DNA Synthesis is Discontinuous
One Man's Trash
How Better Glass Can Save Hundreds of Millions Birds a Year
Death by Dirty Water: Storm Runoff a Risk for Fish
In female flies, sex is more complex than yes or no
Urban Algae Farm Gobbles Up Highway Air Pollution
Germany's First Waste-Free Supermarket
How Notorious HIV is Being Hijacked to Tackle Cancer
World's Longest Snake Has Virgin Birth
Why Rats, Mosquitoes and Water Don't Spread Ebola
Nobel Prize Winners stop bleeding with pork, make sausage from poop
DNA Analysis Shows That Native American Genealogy is One of the Most Unique in the World
Running is the Killer App of the Human Body
The dead trees and fallen leaves near Chernobyl aren't decaying
We May Have Figured Out What's Killing the Bees
Study: Smelling farts may be good for your health
19 Year Old Develops Machine to Clean up Oceans of Plastic
Taiji Dolphin Slaughter: Culture or Cruelty?
Cesarean Delivery May Cause Epigenetic Changes in Babies DNA
Five Simple Questions about Ebola Answered
Birds fall from sky in MI
Elephant poaching deaths reach tipping point in Africa
Three Person Babies
Humans Blamed for Extinction of Mammoths
Pink Dolphins Get Rescue Plan
7 Surprising Reasons You're Dehydrated
Drunken Trees: Dramatic Signs of Climate Change
Impulsivity Linked to Cocaine Addition
The Organisms That Make Us Who We Are
London Skeletons Reveal Secrets of the Black Death
Why You Don't Smell Like a Dog
America Must Kill This Fish
How a Boy's Pet Rodent Turned Deadly
Ancient Baby DNA Suggest Tie to Native Americans
Copenhagen Zoo Kills 4 Lions After Controversial Giraffe Death
Danish Zoo Kills Giraffe to Prevent Inbreeding
Female Lions Prefer Dark-Maned Males, Study Finds
'On' switches for cells
Stem Cell 'Major Discovery' Claimed
Opinion: Record Cold Doesn't Disprove Global Warning
4 Stranded DNA
Plants do math to control overnight food supplies
Naked Mole Rats Have Cancer Proof Goo
Eight Year Old Who Doesn't Age
How a Sea Squirt Could Help You Grow New Limbs
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
RePOOPulate
McDonalds Installing DNA Security Systems
DNA Cloning Expands into New Horizons
DNA Fingerprinting
DNA of Newtown Shooter to be Studied
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
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