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1/8/2009	Mosquitoes match wing beats before mating (AP)
AP - Researchers at Cornell University have discovered that Aedes aegypti mosquitoes the ones that spread diseases like yellow and dengue fever alter their wing vibrations in a mating signal.
1/8/2009	How many scorpions? London Zoo does critter count (AP)
AP - How do you count scorpions? Very gingerly, it turns out. "You use tongs and pick them up by the stinger," London Zoo senior keeper Tony Dobbs said. "You avoid the pincers at all costs. You could get a nasty nick if you're not counting carefully."
1/8/2009	NASA: Keeping shuttle costs $3 billion yearly (AP)
AP - The cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year's planned retirement is $3 billion a year plus extending the risk of a deadly accident, NASA's chief said Thursday.
1/8/2009	More species invasions feared for Great Lakes (AP)
AP - Dozens of foreign species could spread across the Great Lakes in coming years despite policies designed to keep them out, causing significant environmental and economic damage, a federal report says.
1/8/2009	Study Reveals Why First Impressions Count (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Getting off on the wrong foot can doom a relationship before it begins, as we all know.
1/8/2009	Millions isolated as northwest US deluged by flooding (AFP)
AFP - Heavy rain pounded the northwest US state of Washington Thursday, flooding roads, triggering mudslides and leaving millions of residents cut off from the rest of the country.
1/8/2009	Earth Scientist Emerges as Possible Replacement for NASA Chief (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - Despite a last-ditch campaign by some supporters to keep NASA Administrator Mike Griffin on the job, the transition team of President-elect Barack Obama is now vetting a handful of replacement candidates, among them scientist Charles Kennel, who previously ran the agency's Earth science division, according to sources familiar with the situation.
1/8/2009	Panda bites third tourist in 2 years at China zoo (AP)
AP - A panda at the Beijing zoo bit his third tourist in two years and this time, his jaws had to be forced open to free the man, who had jumped in to retrieve his son's toy.
12/30/2008	Ancient Fossil Suggests Origin of Cheetahs (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - A nearly complete skull of a primitive cheetah that sprinted about in China more than 2 million years ago suggests the agile cats originated in the Old World rather than in the Americas.
1/8/2009	Analysis: Money at root of Russia's gas war (AP)
AP - Five months after Russia crushed the Georgian army in the foothills of the Caucasus, Moscow is once again embroiled in a conflict with a former Soviet neighbor: waging an economic war with Ukraine that has disrupted natural gas delivery across Europe.