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Yahoo! News: Science News Science News Organization Warns of EPA 'Regulatory Avalanche' (ContributorNetwork) ContributorNetwork - The Texas Public Policy Foundation is warning of an "approaching regulatory avalanche" in a report. The foundation says new rules in the works by the Environmental Protection Agency could cost billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs. Here are the details of the report. Posted on 6 February 2012 | 9:36 pm Mammogram Readers Could Take a Cue from Film-Making (LiveScience.com) LiveScience.com - The accuracy of a person reading a mammogram is improved when their gaze is subtly shifted toward suspicious areas, and nudged around to ensure that they look at every part of the scan, according to new research. Posted on 6 February 2012 | 5:35 pm Ship that hit Ky. bridge has precious space cargo (AP) AP - The hulking cargo ship that tore through a western Kentucky bridge last month is carrying millions of dollars of rocket components that will be used to blast satellites into space for NASA and Department of Defense missions. Posted on 6 February 2012 | 5:23 pm Brightest Galaxy Ever Seen With Gravity Lens Shines in Hubble Photo (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - A fluke of astrophysics has revealed what scientists are calling the brightest galaxy ever seen through a cosmic "zoom lens," NASA officials say. Posted on 6 February 2012 | 4:45 pm Commercial Composting a Growth Industry in Austin (ContributorNetwork) ContributorNetwork - While Austin, like most Texas cities, has a recycling program, the capital of the state is experimenting with commercial composting, using food and other organic waste to create mulch and potter's soil for commercial use, according to the Austin American Statesman. Posted on 6 February 2012 | 4:38 pm Rescuers dig to reach trapped in Philippines quake (AP) AP - Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake Monday that shook a central Philippine island and set off landslides. Posted on 6 February 2012 | 11:33 am The nations weather (AP) AP - Weather Underground Forecast for Monday, February 06, 2012. Posted on 6 February 2012 | 4:57 am Sierra Club Received Millions from Natural Gas Industry (ContributorNetwork) ContributorNetwork - According to a blog post from Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, the environmentalist organization accepted millions of donated dollars from the natural gas industry to fight against coal-fired plants nationwide. Here are the details. Posted on 5 February 2012 | 11:31 pm Clinton urges Bulgaria to be energy independent (AP) AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Bulgaria, urging the country to break its energy dependence on Russia by diversifying its oil and gas supplies. Posted on 5 February 2012 | 5:48 am New map pinpoints Lyme disease risk areas (AP) AP - Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. Posted on 3 February 2012 | 1:22 pm Same Genes Key to Early & Late-Onset Alzheimer's: Study (HealthDay) HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- People who develop Alzheimer's disease late in life may have the same gene mutations linked to the inherited, early onset form of the condition, according to a new study. Posted on 2 February 2012 | 11:46 pm NASA says Russian space woes no worry (AP) AP - NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program. Posted on 2 February 2012 | 6:36 pm Sex & Parenting Genes Discovered in Mice (LiveScience.com) LiveScience.com - Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but how did they get there? Our gender differences might be a function of how our brains react to hormones, a new study on mice suggests. Posted on 2 February 2012 | 1:25 pm Where's the snow? Not in Lower 48, but elsewhere (AP) AP - Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL. Posted on 1 February 2012 | 9:19 pm Sandia Labs engineers create 'self-guided' bullet (AP) AP - A bullet that directs itself like a tiny guided missile and can hit a target more than a mile away has the potential to change the battlefield for soldiers without costing too much, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories said Wednesday. Posted on 1 February 2012 | 7:19 pm AP Enterprise: Monkey owners flee La. crackdown (AP) AP - Even in their Texas hideout, Jim and Donita Clark are terrified that wildlife agents from their home state of Louisiana will descend on their motorhome and seize the four Capuchin monkeys they've reared for 10 years. Posted on 30 January 2012 | 8:44 am