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Susy Ward, center, and other office workers gather on the sidewalk in downtown Washington moments after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake, which was felt all across the East Coast, shook the nation’s capitol. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

Earth home to 8.7 million species

Humans share the planet with as many as 8.7 million different forms of life, according to what is being billed as the most accurate estimate yet of life on Earth.

Guardian

Some newly discovered species

Globeandmail.com

Pluto holds big surprises for NASA probe

With NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft speeding toward Pluto, our understanding of the dwarf planet should transform even further. Pluto may be small, but it is proving to be big on surprises.

SPACE.com

Meet the solar system’s dwarf planets

SPACE.com

East Coast quake prompts confusion

For a few minutes from Georgia to Maine, the question rang out: What was that? The answer — a magnitude 5.8 earthquake — was far down on the list for most not used to the earth shaking beneath them.

CBS News

Virginia quake: What the numbers say, and what you feel

Christian Science Monitor

Virginia quake felt by millions

CNN

Nation’s weather extremes may become the new normal

A record-setting winter in much of the country has been followed by more records: tornadoes, flooding, drought and heat. Climate change is largely to blame, scientists say.

Los Angeles Times

Evacuations begin in NC as Hurricane Irene strengthens

Msnbc.om

‘Shrimp on a treadmill’: the politics of ‘silly’ government studies

Lawmakers and political groups like to point to government spending that seems wasteful — especially in tough economic times. And one popular target has been silly sounding scientific studies.

NPR

NATION

Social Security disability faces insolvency

Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security’s disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.

Houston Chronicle

Fed-up San Francisco commuters battle BART protesters

San Francisco commuters appeared to have had their fill of BART protesters, fighting back against those demonstrating against the transit agency.

San Francisco Examiner

Conditions at Calif. prison to be reviewed

Faced with overcrowding, budget cuts and a weeks-long hunger strike by inmates, California is considering making changes to how it handles its toughest prisoners.

NPR

POLITICS

Rahm Emanuel‘s 1st 100 days as mayor: ‘I love this’

Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will mark his 100th day as mayor of Chicago. He promised to put his own mark on Chicago as he took on the city’s challenges. Some think he’s succeeding.

NPR

Special section:

Rahm Emanuel

PolitiFact

Republican might run for Giffords’s seat in Congress, but not against her

Republican Arizona state senator Frank Antenori is thinking of running for the seat now held by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, but said he is unlikely to challenge her if she decides to seek reelection.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Stocks in rally mode

U.S. stocks posted major advances, following a report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation that showed the number of failing banks shrank for the first time in nearly five years.

CNNMoney

Young entrepreneur has a better effective idea. Now what?

There’s plenty of bad economic news these days, but Meredith Perry, 22, and her company, called UBeam, are trying to defy it — she’s hiring and entertaining funding offers from investors.

NPR

Top 5 richest Internet entrepreneurs

HowStuffWorks.com

HEALTH

Time for a power walk

Forget to charge your phone? Your MP3 player? Soon, a quick stroll in a special pair of shoes could provide enough power to keep both going for hours.

New Scientist

Parkinson’s research breakthrough thanks to stem cells from patient

A breakthrough in Parkinson’s disease research came to light when researchers reported successfully growing stem cells from the skin of a patient with a rapidly progressing form of the disease.

Medical News Today

Can FoodCorps get US eating healthy?

Programs that help improve access to healthy food — a key part of the FoodCorps mission — remain one of the best tools we have to reduce the toll from obesity.

TIME

SPORTS

Pat Summitt diagnosed with dementia, plans to coach this year

Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt has no plans to stop coaching, despite her being diagnosed with early onset dementia.

Sports Illustrated

‘Forgotten 4’ college teams try to climb back to prominence

No one expects the Gators, Buckeyes, Longhorns or Trojans to be a factor in this season. When a marquee name momentarily falls out of sight, it generally doesn’t last long. This is different.

NBCSports

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Clergy sues over Alabama immigration law

Alabama‘s new immigration law is being challenged by Bible Belt institutions. The state’s United Methodist, Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches have sued, arguing it violates their religious freedom.

NPR

Stones fall off National Cathedral

The East Coast earthquake damaged three of the four pinnacles atop the main tower of the landmark Washington National Cathedral, and there are visible cracks in the church’s structure.

San Francisco Chronicle

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Richard Ben-Veniste):

Best 9/11 lesson is to keep calm, carry on

USA TODAY

Column (Lawrence Wright):

A different kind of Texan

The New Yorker

Column (James Fallows):

Mainly good news on the tech front

The Atlantic

Column (Ramin Jahanbegloo):

Regime change in Syria and Iran will come if people unite as in Libya

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Gregg Easterbrook):

How to win big by losing cheaply

ESPN

Blog (Anne Applebaum):

In praise of leading from behind

(Slate)

Foreigners

Column (L.Z. Granderson):

Parents, time to panic about our kids’ education

CNN

Editorial:

The final days of Moammar Gadhafi

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Ashley Nawn, Rachel Barrus, Sanaz Ariya and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

New drug proven to cure multiple viruses in human cells

A new drug can scout out and kill numerous types of viruses infecting human and animal cells. It’s the first time a single drug has been shown to work against a range of viruses.

National Geographic

Taiwan will soon honor California man for WWII heroism

The Taiwanese government will give the widow of Capt. William Chow King, a Chinese American who rescued his flight commander in China from eight Japanese fighter planes 67 years ago, two medals.

McClatchy Newspapers

Extreme couponing, for a cause

Heather Bonner is the founder and visionary of Clipping for a Cause, a nonprofit organization that expertly coupons to buy an array of items for pennies on the dollar to feed the hungry.

Msnbc.com

WORLD

UN orders investigation into Syria human rights violations

The U.N. Human Rights Council has launched a new commission of inquiry into Syria’s crackdown on anti-government protesters, including possible crimes against humanity.

Al Jazeera

Gadhafi’s compound falls

Triumphant rebel fighters and thousands of ordinary Libyans stormed Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s fortress compound after a daylong battle, but the elusive strongman was nowhere to be found.

Wall Street Journal

A look inside Gadhafi’s bunker

TIME

Journalists still trapped in Tripoli hotel

CNN

Kim Jong Il visits Russia for talks with Dmitry Medvedev

North Korean leader Kim Jong II traveled to eastern Siberia for a summit with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to discuss a natural gas pipeline deal.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ancient daddy longlegs are coming to life in 3-D images

Daddy longlegs have been skittering around the Earth for more than 300 million years, which is since even before the time of the dinosaurs.

LiveScience

Humanoid robot is able to power up in space station

Move over Commander Data, there’s a real robot in space now. The International Space Station got a new crewmember, one made not of flesh and blood, but of gears and clockwork instead.

SPACE.com

Space entrepreneurs may hold fate of ISS

New Scientist

Digital music locker providers do not infringe copyright, US court rules

Ambitious music streaming services launched by Google and Amazon in the U.S. have been boosted by a district court ruling that digital music lockers do not directly infringe copyright.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

South American wildfires are expected to increase soon

A new University of Colorado, Boulder study indicates that a major climate oscillation in the Southern Hemisphere is expected to intensify wildfire activity in the southern half of South America.

ScienceDaily

Thirst for gold threatens historic mining center in Romania

Rosia Montana Gold Corp., a mining company that plans to open the biggest open-pit gold mine in Europe, has been trying to take advantage of gold’s skyrocketing price in Romania.

McClatchy Newspapers

EDUCATION

Back-to-school can mean vaccines for tweens, teens

If you haven’t worried about back-to-school shots since your tween or teen was entering kindergarten, better put vaccines on the to-do list.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Special section:

Children’s vaccines health center

WebMD

Breaking bread

A study found that students who regularly share a meal with those of different backgrounds are more likely to view the campus as having a good environment on race relations than those who don’t.

Inside Higher Ed

Study measures bullying’s academic toll

While bullying is known to leave physical and emotional scars, a new study finds that high-achieving black and Latino students are especially vulnerable.

Education Week

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The 1st home-cooked meals are 1.9 million years old

Scientists have determined that early humans first used fire to cook meals around 1.9 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought.

iTWire

Send in the clowns

Volunteer clown clubs, a staple of civic festivals for decades, are seeking more members as longtime merrymakers age.

Star Tribune

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