Today's Interesting Science News

New Undersea Cable will link the Ocean to the Internet. The first step of NEPTUNE, a joint U.S.-Canadian effort to create the world's first regional cabled ocean observatory, was made last week when the French ship Ile de Sein laid down submarine fiber-optic cables in the Pacific Ocean. This will enable scientists to gather information never before gatherable!

Some young spotted salamanders risk their lives by foraging most actively where the risk of predation is highest, a new study says. By living dangerously during their first weeks of life, the spotted salamanders can grow more quickly and thus become too big for predators to eat, the study concludes. Photo and article courtesy of National Geographic.

Australian jellyfish have been found as far north as South Carolina this year. There was a previous invasion in 2000 that was mostly centered in the Gulf of Mexico, but now there are fewer in number, but the population is more spread out. Scientist have several speculations...the babies come over attached to ships, they are drifting this way on ocean currents, they are taking advantage of the food supply. Of course there is concern how this will impact native ocean life.

Jupiter has been theorized as a protector of the planet Earth. It's gravity has been thought to be responsible for throwing invading comets out of the system so they don't hit Earth. Well, Jupiter does that, but most of the asteroids that are a danger to Earth lie in the asteroid belt . If Jupiter wasn't in existence or was smaller, those asteroids probably would have formed into a planet and then we wouldn't be bothered with them. \