May 16, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Dept. of Homeland Security seizes funds from the largest Bitcoin exchange.
- Aaron Swartz was not yet a legend when, almost two years ago, I asked him to build an open-source, anonymous in-box.
- Pneumatic tubes, and other reasons libraries will fail—from 1864.
- The Kepler space telescope's greatest hits.
- By cloning human skin cells into stem cells, the controversy over cloning whole people is once again brought into view.
- African clawed frogs, used in pregnancy tests pre-1950, now spread deadly fungus that could eradicate hundreds of amphibian species.
- Pollan: We've spent most of the past century trying to kill our best friends—bacteria.
- World Press Photo finds no evidence of "significant photo manipulation" in award-winning image of mourners in Gaza.
- Numbers of stranded sea lion pups are declining—and again, no one knows why.
- Walkway in Poland is named after Irena Sendler, who saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust.
- Tales of heroic teens.
- Sudden explosions of blocks and ash are possible with little or no warning.
