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Monster crabs are invading again! Huge crabs have invaded the Antarctic, wiping out local wildlife and ruining ecosystems that have evolved over 14 million years. Three years ago, researchers predicted that as the deep waters of the Southern Ocean warmed, king crabs would invade Antarctica within 100 years, and now they’ve arrived. They have a voracious appetite and eat everything in their path.
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The Mexican government is releasing state-held secrets that it’s held for 80 years about the end of the Mayan calendar to filmmakers who are making a documentary about it.

In Reuters, Steve Pond quotes Mexican tourism minister Luis Augusto Garcia Rosado as saying, "The Mayans used to construct one pyramid over another. In the site at Calakmul, workers for the National Institute of Anthropology and History have discovered rooms inside the pyramid that have never been seen or explored before. And we’re letting this documentary film there, to see what has been discovered inside the pyramid."
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Knowing the right way to handle stress in the classroom and on the sports field can make the difference between success and failure for the millions of students who are back in school this fall. The culprit? The stress hormone cortisol.

Psychologist Sian Beilock says, "We found that cortisol, a hormone released in response to stress, can either be tied to a student’s poor performance on a math test or contribute to success, depending on the frame of mind of the student going into the test."
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