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China, Russia to send probes to Mars next year (Reuters)

Fri, 12/05/2008 - 04:43
Reuters - China will team up with Russia to launch two satellite probes to take pictures of Mars and one of its small moons in October next year as it seeks to cement its place in the select ranks of global space powers.

Groups protest drilling-lease auction in Utah (AP)

Fri, 12/05/2008 - 04:25
AP - Conservation groups filed formal protests Thursday against what they call a "fire sale" of oil-and-gas drilling leases in Utah being conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Countries looking to US leadership on climate (AP)

Fri, 12/05/2008 - 02:33
AP - Countries around the world are looking to Barack Obama for leadership in reaching a global climate treaty next year, but no nation will be able to singlehandedly deliver a final agreement, a senior U.N. official said Thursday.

Happiness: Contagious as the Flu (LiveScience.com)

Fri, 12/05/2008 - 01:11
LiveScience.com - In a good mood? Your neighbor, her friends and even her friends' friends should thank you - you're likely infecting them with your cheer. Happiness spreads through social networks about as easily as the flu, according to a new study.

NASA delays Mars mission to 2011 (AP)

Fri, 12/05/2008 - 00:50

This NASA artist's concept shows the Mars Science Laboratory, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Technical glitches have forced US space agency NASA to delay the launch of a landmark mission to Mars, which was due to lift off in the autumn of next year, officials said Thursday.(AFP/NASA)AP - NASA is delaying a mission to Mars that already had been over budget and will get even more costly.


NASA sets May date for Hubble telescope repairs (AP)

Fri, 12/05/2008 - 00:30

This image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and released Thursday Nov. 20, 2008 showcases the brilliant core of NGC 1569 one of the most active star making galaxies in our local neighborhood. The entire core is 5,000 light-years wide. According to scientists a new analysis of NGC 1569 shows that it is one and a half times farther from Earth than astronomers previously thought. The extra distance places the galaxy in the middle of a group of about 10 galaxies centered on the spiral galaxy IC 342. Gravitational interactions among the group's galaxies may be compressing gas in NGC 1569 and igniting the star-birthing frenzy. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - NASA has set a May date for its space shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope for a final time.


Ancient Flying Reptile Bigger Than a Car (LiveScience.com)

Thu, 12/04/2008 - 18:24

A visitor looks at a reconstructed biological model of a 'Quetzalcoatlus northropi' at the 'Pterosaurs; Rulers of the Skies in the Age of Dinosaurs' exhibition at The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, in this June 28, 2008 file photo.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)LiveScience.com - A fossil of a toothless flying pterosaur, with a body bigger than some family cars, represents the largest of these extinct reptiles ever to be found and has forced the creation of a new genus, scientists announced today.


Iran's Ahmadinejad worried over oil price fall (AFP)

Thu, 12/04/2008 - 17:33

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran on December 1, 2008. Ahmadinejad has for the first time admitted that the fall in world oil prices will affect the economic projects of his government, local media reported.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)AFP - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has for the first time admitted that the fall in world oil prices will affect the economic projects of his government, local media reported on Thursday.


Weather around the U.S.A. (AP)

Thu, 12/04/2008 - 17:00
AP - Weather around the U.S.A.

"Rogue" stem cell clinics exploit hope: report (Reuters)

Thu, 12/04/2008 - 15:28

A laboratory researcher in a file photo. (File/Reuters)Reuters - Rogue clinics around the world may be exploiting hope and ignorance by offering unproven stem cell therapies, a group of stem cell experts said in a report released on Wednesday.


Conservation group sues for walrus protection (AP)

Thu, 12/04/2008 - 12:13

This image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a Pacific walrus tagged with a satellite radio transmitter, shot onto the animal by USGS scientists using a crossbow in this March, 2006 file photo taken on the Bering Sea spring sea ice. The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on Wednesday Dec. 3, 2008 for failing to act on a petition seeking protection for walrus under the Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Wildlife Service has nearly completed a comprehensive population count of walrus coordinated with Russian counterparts. The numbers are anticipated no later than January and possibly by the end of the year, he said.  (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Steven Kazlowski, FILE)AP - A conservation group is going to court to force the federal government to consider adding the Pacific walrus to the list of threatened species.


Study illuminates star explosion from 16th century (AP)

Thu, 12/04/2008 - 06:05

This X-ray image provided by NASA, and captured by the German ROSAT satellite in the 1990s, shows the remnant of a supernova that was observed in 1572 by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. A new study explores the nature of that star explosion. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - More than 400 years after Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe challenged established wisdom about the heavens by analyzing a strange new light in the sky, scientists say they've finally nailed down just what he saw.


Bogus Stem Cell Therapies Sold on Internet (HealthDay)

Thu, 12/04/2008 - 05:47

A cell cluster cultured from embryonic stem cells is seen in this undated handout photo. (National Science Foundation/Handout/Reuters)HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Expensive, sham stem cell therapies are being hawked directly to desperate patients over the Internet, experts say.


How Fishy Technology Could Power the Future (LiveScience.com)

Thu, 12/04/2008 - 00:33
LiveScience.com - Editor's Note: Each Wednesday LiveScience examines the viability of emerging energy technologies - the power of the future.

Greenhouse gas emissions increase in US (AP)

Thu, 12/04/2008 - 00:00

This Tuesday, July 15, 2003 file photo shows the Los Angeles skyline being obscured by a heavy layer of smog and fog .  Decreasing air pollution in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley would save more lives annually than ending all motor vehicle fatalities in the two regions, according to a study. (AP Photo/Jerome T. Nakagawa, file)AP - The amount of U.S. greenhouse gases flowing into the atmosphere, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, increased last year by 1.4 percent after a decline in 2006, the Energy Department reported Wednesday.


Scientists ask: Is technology rewiring our brains? (AP)

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 23:07

University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of Psychiatry  Dr. Gary Small plays with a digital memory electronic device at his office at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior in Westwood, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people? These sound like concerns from worried parents. But they're coming from brain scientists.


LA delays decision on scrapping elephant exhibit (AP)

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 21:21

Billy, a 21-year-old Asian elephant, drinks water in his enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008, in Los Angeles. The future of the elephant habitat at the Los Angeles Zoo could be determined Wednesday, Dec. 3. 2008, when the City Council meets.  (AP Photo/Paula Frier)AP - Kids can keep visiting Billy the elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo — for now.


Study raps Web sites touting stem cell therapies (AP)

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 21:10

A cell cluster cultured from embryonic stem cells is seen in this undated handout photo. (National Science Foundation/Handout/Reuters)AP - Consumers should be wary of Web sites from clinics that offer stem cell treatments, says a study that found a lack of firm medical evidence to back up their claims. The Web sites in the study generally portrayed their therapies as safe, effective and ready for routine use, but published research doesn't support that "overoptimistic" picture, the study authors said.


Iran's president concedes economy hurting over oil (AP)

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 19:33

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, gestures as he delivers a speech during the International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)AP - Iran's hard-line president has acknowledged publicly for the first time that his country's economy is taking a severe beating from tumbling oil prices, a damaging admission by a leader whose popularity is eroding ahead of a tough re-election battle next year.


New Light Shed on Ancient Exploding Star (SPACE.com)

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 19:10

This X-ray image provided by NASA, and captured by the German ROSAT satellite in the 1990s, shows the remnant of a supernova that was observed in 1572 by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. A new study explores the nature of that star explosion. (AP Photo/NASA)SPACE.com - On Nov. 11, 1572, astronomer Tycho Brahe observed a bright "new star" — now known as a supernova — in the constellation Cassiopeia.


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