AP Top Science News at 3:15 p.m. EDT

A pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyageScientists studying cockroach milk and nose-blowing win Ig Nobel prizes for quirky scienceFrance records its hottest summer since measurements began over a century agoScientists find a huge 10-sided wave pattern swirling in the clouds over Saturn's south poleGlobal warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zoneJapanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90Nepal floods expose risks to hydropower in a warming HimalayasResearchers catch sharks off NY's Hamptons, attach trackers to toothy predatorsKeeping cool saves thousands of lives yearly, but at a cost of worsening global warming, experts sayBreathable air and clean water are crucial