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Ironworkers James Brady, left, and Billy Geoghan release cables from a steel beam after connecting it on the 104th floor of 1 World Trade Center, in New York. U.S. employers added 163,000 jobs in July, a hopeful sign after three months of sluggish hiring. (Photo by Mark Lennihan / AP)

Why women live longer than men

The answer to the biological puzzle of why women live longer than men may lie in the tiny “power packs” of the body’s cells, which harbor mutations that are more harmful to men than to women.

ZeeNews

DNA clue to women’s longevity found in fruit flies

Medical News Today

US-backed study exploited China prisoners

A medical study partially funded by the U.S. government was conducted at detention centers in China that engage in severe violations of human rights.

Reuters

Jobs report beats forecasts of 163,000 jobs

The nation’s unemployment rate ticked up from 8.2 percent to 8.3 percent as the economy added a surprising 163,000 jobs in July. U.S. stock index futures rose after the report.

USA TODAY

What do jobless do when unemployment checks run out?

Detroit Free Press

Keeping the biggest secret in the US economy

NPR

Congress, with much left to do, takes 5 weeks off

After a final day of partisan battles over drought relief and cybersecurity, members of Congress streamed out of the Capitol, looking forward to five weeks of vacation and a fall fraught with decisions.

Boston.com

Congress on break until September

NBCNews.com

What the octopus can teach us about national security

How can governments ensure their armed forces are protected in the field? By behaving like the tentacled marine animal, says a marine scientist.

BBC

NATION

Kansas City-bound Megabus crashes into Illinois bridge, killing 1

A Megabus en route from Chicago to Kansas City slammed into a concrete bridge pillar, killing one passenger and injuring dozens. The cause of the crash appears to have been a blown out tire.

McClatchy Newspapers

Many Americans die with ‘virtually no financial assets’

Innovative research shows a large divergence in retirement saving outcomes, with the single elderly faring worse than married couples.

MIT News

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Early retirement will impact your social security benefit

U.S. News & World Report

Study projects growing demand for commercial space flights

Commercial suborbital space flights should bring in between $600 million and $1.6 billion in revenue in their first decade of operations, according to a new study.

Daily Pheonix

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NASA boosts funding for commercial space shuttle replacements

(Wired)

Autopia

POLITICS

Stimulus watch for Bernanke and Fed

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke looks set to spend the rest of the summer waiting for signs that could tip the scales toward providing another round of stimulus for the economy.

Reuters

‘No vacancy’ on Internet for political ads

The Internet seems endless, but for one key commodity — political advertising — it is about to run out of room, at least on the popular video sites that the campaigns care about most.

Politico

Deciding the undecideds is a tough task for Obama, Romney

Houston Chronicle

The 2012 campaign spending spree

Time

BUSINESS

Bull market in crops extends with drought

Corn and soybean traders are bullish for a 15th consecutive week on speculation that the drought spreading across fields in the U.S. will spur the government to make more cuts to its production forecasts.

Bloomberg

Is Apple losing its shine after Jobs?

As the one-year anniversary approaches of the death of Steve Jobs, tough questions could bubble up about Apple’s future, especially if we see a few more quarters of disappointing earnings results.

Time

HEALTH

Tobacco companies profit from loophole, market small cigars

After decades of progress toward preventing smoking-related illness and death, public health officials warn about a new trend: smokers who switch to cheaper — but equally dangerous — small cigars.

USA TODAY

Exercise may reduce depression in heart failure patients

The benefits of exercise in people with heart problems may go beyond the physical, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

CBS News

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Depression: the world’s silent epidemic

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

At last, scientists have figured out how elephants trumpet

Elephants’ deepest calls can thunder up to six miles away. Now, researchers have learned how the massive animals produce these sounds.

Christian Science Monitor

Why does North Dakota have faster Internet than the rest of us?

The gap between the most connected and least connected communities is getting worse, and local communities are taking matters into their own hands, possibly improving Internet service nationwide.

Slate

Mars landing draws near

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory and its Curiosity rover are set to land on the red planet. It is the most advanced, most ambitious and most adventurous mission ever sent to Mars.

USA TODAY

Special section:

Search for life: Mars rover’s target crater a ‘geologist‘s paradise’

Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Who is fracking in your backyard?

New analysis shows that in most states where fracking occurs, there are no disclosure laws at all, and that those that do are insufficient when it comes to revealing details of their operations.

Slate

Bites from vampire bats might protect people against rabies

Several native individuals in the Peruvian Amazon appear to have developed natural antibodies to the rabies virus.

Scientific American

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GOOD NEWS

Farmers, Campbell Soup give food bank peachy help

The Food Bank of New Jersey and Campbell Soup are pairing up to feed the hungry. Blemished peaches collected by the food bank will be made into “Just Peachy Salsa” in a Campbell plant.

Salon

Number of US farmers’ markets surges

As demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables has increased, so too has the number of urban farmers’ markets sprouting up across the nation.

San Francisco Chronicle

US to give more Syrian humanitarian aid

President Obama approved $12 million in new humanitarian aid for beleaguered Syrian civilians as the civil war rages between rebels and the Assad regime in Aleppo and elsewhere.

Associated Press

WORLD

Kofi Annan quits as Syria peace envoy