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Shuttle camera to watch fuel tank. The space shuttle's external fuel tank, implicated in the 2003 Columbia disaster, is to get its own camera. | 3 |
Hubble peers at celestial bubble. The Hubble Space Telescope has looked into a bubble of gas and dust being inflated by a young star's particles. | 3 |
Bacteria gives coral orange glow. Orange coral common to the Caribbean has bacteria to thank for its hue, say US marine scientists. | 3 |
Honey bees close museum . A Worcestershire museum is forced to close for several weeks while a swarm of honey bees is removed. | 3 |
Clouds dash Perseids show. The annual Perseid meteor shower could provide a "spectacular" show, despite a disappointing start. | 3 |
Worms may slow Parkinson's. A protein which helps increase lifespan in worms offers hope for new Parkinson's and Alzheimer's treatments. | 3 |
Nasa help for stem cell study. UK tissue engineering experts are teaming up with NASA to find treatments for diseases back on Earth. | 3 |
TB test to slash infection rates. A rapid and accurate test for TB could cut infection rates around the world, say experts. | 3 |
Vandals damage bird reserve. A disturbance free zone for nesting birds is put at risk by vandals who cut down the boundary fence. | 3 |
Heat waves set to become 'brutal'. Heat waves in the 21st Century will be more intense, more frequent and longer, US experts say. | 3 |
Monkeys test 'hardworking gene'. Scientists in the United States find a way to turn lazy monkeys into workaholics using gene therapy. | 3 |
Hearing clue to whale evolution. The evolution of whales from four-legged land dwellers into streamlined swimmers has been traced in fossilised ears, Nature reports. | 3 |
News: Climate Change Could Doom Alaska's Tundra. In the next 100 years, Alaska will experience a massive loss of its historic tundra, as global warming allows these vast regions of cold, dry, lands to support forests and other vegetation that will dramatically alter native ecosystems. (Oregon State University press release) | 3 |
News: How Strongly Does the Sun Influence the Climate?. Researchers have shown that the Sun can be responsible for, at most, only a small part of the warming over the last 20-30 years. (Max Planck Society press release) | 3 |
News: New England Forests at Greater Risk from Air Pollution. When it comes to forests, air pollution is not an equal opportunity hazard. While dirty air spreads across large areas of the New England region, it's more scattered in the southeastern part of the United States. (University of Wisconsin-Madison press release) | 3 |
News: Warmer Weather, Human Disturbances Interact to Change Forests. While a rapidly changing climate may alter the composition of northern Wisconsin's forests, disturbances such as logging also will play a critical role in how these sylvan ecosystems change over time. (University of Wisconsin-Madison press release) | 3 |
News: Droughts Like 1930s Dust Bowl May Have Been Unexceptional in Prehistoric Times, New Study Suggests. Events like the great Dust Bowl of the 1930s, immortalized in "The Grapes of Wrath" and remembered as a transforming event for millions of Americans, were regular parts of much-earlier cycles of droughts followed by recoveries in the region, according to new studies by a multi-institutional research team led by Duke University. (Duke University press release) | 3 |
News: New Study to Investigate Demise of Coral Reef Ecosystems. Scientists are embarking on a project which will explore how global warming is devastating one of the world's most diverse ecosystems, coral reefs. (University of Newcastle press release) | 3 |
Natural Hazards: Typhoon Rananim. The MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this true-color image of Typhoon Rananim on August 12 at 2:40 UTC. | 3 |
Horseflies and Meteors. Like bugs streaking colorfully down the side window of a moving car, Earthgrazing Perseid meteors could put on a pleasing show after sunset on August 11th. | 3 |
Spinning Brains. One day, astronauts could zip across the solar system in spinning spaceships. How will their brains adapt to life onboard a twirling home where strange quot;Coriolis forces quot; rule? | 3 |
What Neil Buzz Left on the Moon. A cutting-edge Apollo 11 science experiment left behind in the Sea of Tranquility is still running today. | 3 |
Voyager 1, Prepare for Action. At the outer limits of our solar system, a solar shock wave is about to overtake NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. | 3 |
Saturn Hailstorm. When Cassini reached Saturn On June 30th, it dashed through a gap in Saturn's rings, twice. One of onboard science instruments recorded a flurry of ring-dust harmlessly striking the spacecraft.\\ | 3 |
Dino-Size Spurt: T. Rex Teens Gained 5 Pounds a Day. New analysis of fossil bones indicates that adolescent <i>Tyrannosaurus rex</i> dinosaurs grew extremely rapidly, quickly reaching gigantic size. | 3 |
Real "Danny Deckchairs" Soar With Just a Seat and Some Balloons. In the new movie <i>Danny Deckchair,</i> a truck driver ties party balloons to a chair and flies away. It's called cluster ballooning, and believe it or not, it's a real sport. | 3 |
"Unusually Good" Meteor Shower Expected Tonight. Tonight's annual Perseid meteor shower is likely to be a spectacular show of shooting stars zipping across the night sky, according to astronomers. | 3 |
"Monster" Waves Suprisingly Common, Satellites Show. Rogue waves #151;eight or more stories or higher #151;are freaks of the ocean once thought to be tall tales told by sailors. But now scientists have satellite evidence that the massive upwellings are not only real but also fairly common. | 3 |
Ancient Olympians Followed "Atkins" Diet, Scholar Says. What did the first Olympians eat? Food historians are scouring ancient texts to find out. | 3 |
U.S. Warrior Arms Africans to Hunt Sudanese Poachers. Armed poachers from Sudan have been raiding and destroying neighboring Central African Republic's wildlife resources for years. Now, with the help of a militant U.S. conservationist, the CAR populace is arming and training itself to fight back. | 3 |
Ancient Olympics Mixed Naked Sports, Pagan Partying. Nude athletes, performance-enhancing lizard meat, and animal sacrifices are just a few of the things that separate the ancient Olympics from the modern games, says the author of <i>The Naked Olympics.</i> | 3 |
Magma Surge Moves Nevada Mountain, Study Says. Why did a Lake Tahoe-area peak move dramatically late last year? A new report says magma deep below surged upward, forcing the mountain to rise. | 3 |
266 Chimps From Lab Adopted by Florida Refuge. With an influx of chimps previously used as laboratory animals, Florida's Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care is transforming into the largest chimp sanctuary in the world #151;almost overnight. | 3 |
Locusts Inspire Technology That May Prevent Car Crashes. Locusts are commonly associated with plagues, food shortages, and death. But they are also inspiring what may be the next wave in lifesaving collision-avoidance systems. | 3 |
Progress Supply Ship Docks with Space Station. NASA -- An unpiloted Russian cargo ship linked up the International Space Station this morning to deliver almost three tons of food, fuel, oxygen, water and supplies to the residents onboard. The ISS Progress 15 craft automatically docked to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 12:01 a.m... | 3 |
Building Dedicated to Space Shuttle Columbia Astronauts. By BILL KACZOR PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- A former dormitory converted to classrooms at the Pensacola Naval Air Station was dedicated Friday to two Columbia astronauts who were among the seven who died in the shuttle disaster Feb... | 3 |
How Mars Fooled the World. The famous Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" is about to hit the big screen, as film moguls Spielberg and Cruise bring the H.G. Wells' classic back into the popular imagination. Are we so clever today not be duped? | 3 |
Chandra Catches Early Phase of Cosmic Assembly. Chandra X-Ray Observatory -- A NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory image has revealed a complex of several intergalactic hot gas clouds in the process of merging. The superb Chandra spatial resolution made it possible to distinguish individual galaxies from the massive clouds of hot gas... | 3 |
Hubble Peers Inside a Celestial Geode. Hubble Space Telescope -- In this unusual image, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet radiation from a hot young star. Real geodes are baseball-sized, hollow rocks that start out as bubbles in volcanic or sedimentary rock... | 3 |
Saturn's Moon Titan: Prebiotic Laboratory. by Harry Bortman In this second and final part of the interview, Lunine explains how Huygens may help scientists understand the origin of life on Earth, even if it doesn't detect life on Titan. Astrobiology Magazine -- Titan is the only moon in our solar system with an atmosphere, and it is the organic chemistry that has been detected in that atmosphere that has sparked the imagination of planetary scientists like Lunine... | 3 |
Sharpest Image Ever Obtained of a Circumstellar Disk Reveals Signs of Young Planets. MAUNA KEA, Hawaii -- The sharpest image ever taken of a dust disk around another star has revealed structures in the disk which are signs of unseen planets. Dr... | 3 |
Chandra Celebrates Five Years of Scientific Breakthroughs. Marshall Space Flight Center -- On August 12, 1999, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory opened its sunshade doors for the first time, allowing celestial X-ray light to reach the observatory's mirrors. This one small step for the observatory proved to be a giant leap for science as Chandra began its mission to shed new light on a violent, mysterious universe invisible to the human eye... | 3 |
Some Globular Clusters May Be Leftovers From Snacking Galaxies. Globular star clusters are like spherical cathedrals of light -- collections of millions of stars lumped into a space only a few dozen light-years across. If the Earth resided within a globular cluster, our night sky would be alight with thousands of stars more brilliant than Sirius. | 3 |
India Rethinks Plan for Manned Moon Mission. By S. SRINIVASAN BANGALORE, India (AP) -- India is rethinking its plan to send a man to the moon by 2015, as the mission would cost a lot of money and yield very little in return, the national space agency said Thursday... | 3 |
Cluster Finds Giant Gas Vortices at the Edge of Earths Magnetic Bubble. European Space Agency -- ESAs quartet of space-weather watchers, Cluster, has discovered vortices of ejected solar material high above the Earth. The superheated gases trapped in these structures are probably tunnelling their way into the Earths magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere... | 3 |
Saturn's Moon Titan: Planet Wannabe. by Henry Bortman Jonathan Lunine, professor of planetary science and physics at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, has long been fascinated by Saturn's largest moon, Titan. In this first part of the interview, Lunine explains what scientists hope to learn from Huygens... | 3 |
Knocking on Heaven's Door. The Milky Way is a vast, diverse neighborhood. If you're hoping to find Earthlike planets that may harbor life, you'll need to narrow the search. Stars are a good place to start, because the dusty discs around stars spawn young planets. | 3 |
China Begins Countdown for Next Manned Space Flight. By ELAINE KURTENBACH SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- Chinese astronauts are in the final stages of preparing for a manned space mission that will orbit the globe 14 times before returning to Earth, a state-run newspaper reported Thursday. The launch, expected sometime this month, will initially send a manned craft, the Shenzhou 5, into an oval orbit that at its closest will be 125 miles from Earth, the Liberation Daily reported, citing "relevant channels." After circling the earth several times, the ship will enter an orbit at about 220 miles from earth, the report said... | 3 |
Trajectory Maneuver Brings Genesis Spacecraft Closer to Home. Jet Propulsion Lab -- Thirty days before its historic return to Earth with NASA's first samples from space since the Apollo missions, the Genesis spacecraft successfully completed its twentieth trajectory maneuver. At 12:00 Universal Time (5:00 a.m... | 3 |
Japanese Lunar Probe Mission Facing Delays. TOKYO (AP) -- A lunar orbiter that Japan had planned to launch this year could face further delays, possibly until next year or later, because of a funding shortfall and problems developing the probe's information-gathering capabilities, Japan's space agency said Wednesday. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, released a report to a government-run commission explaining expected delays to the launch of the \$135 million Lunar-A probe... | 3 |
Progress Cargo Ship for ISS Launched From Russia. MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian cargo ship loaded with supplies and equipment blasted off from the Baikonour cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday headed for the international space station, a Russian space official said. The Progress M-50 ship took off at 1:03 a.m... | 3 |
The Annual Perseid Meteor Shower. The annual Perseid meteor shower is coming, and forecasters say it could be unusually good. Like bugs streaking down the side window of a moving car, colorful Perseid Earthgrazers could put on a pleasing show after sunset this week. | 3 |
NASA Approves Robotic Hubble Repair Mission. (AP) -- NASA's chief is urging his Hubble Space Telescope team to press ahead with plans for a robotic repair mission to the aging observatory, saying, "Let's go save the Hubble." Administrator Sean O'Keefe says he will ask Congress for money to accomplish the job. He estimates it will take about \$1 billion to \$1.6 billion to develop and launch a robot to make the needed upgrades to keep the popular telescope running and to get it out of orbit once its work is through... | 3 |
Dying Star Goes Out With a Ring. A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the shimmering embers of a dying star, and in their midst a mysterious doughnut-shaped ring. The dying star is part of a "planetary nebula" called NGC 246. When a star like our own Sun begins to run out of fuel, its core shrinks and heats up, boiling off the star's outer layers. | 3 |
Lost Sleep Leads to Health Problems. Advice on how to get a good night's slumber and avoid future heart trouble HealthDayNews -- Lack of sleep can cause more than drowsiness; it can contribute to a number of health problems. Short-term effects of lack of sleep include increases in blood pressure and levels of stress hormones, according to an article in the August issue of the Harvard Heart Letter... | 3 |
Which Diet is Best? The One That Works for You. By Kathleen Doheny, HealthDay Reporter HealthDayNews -- Gather together some diners who are trying to lose weight, then sit back and listen to the debate. Almost anyone who's on a diet -- or at least one that's working -- is convinced his or her plan is the best... | 3 |
Clouds are Cooler than Smoke. Clouds help regulate the Earths climate by reflecting sunlight into space, thus cooling the surface. When cloud patterns change, they modify the Earths energy balance in turn, and temperatures on the Earths surface. | 3 |
Last Year's Flu Shot Imperfect But Effective. By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay Reporter HealthDayNews -- Last year's influenza vaccine was far from a perfect match against the virus that sickened people, but it offered more protection from the illness than experts had previously thought. In very young children, the shot was found to be 25 percent to 49 percent effective in preventing influenza-like illness, which is a suspected case of flu that wasn't confirmed in a laboratory... | 3 |
Olympics Could Call Out the Couch Potatoes. As the 2004 Summer Olympics officially get underway Friday with an international broadcast of the opening ceremonies, health experts expect the Athens games to inspire couch potatoes to become more active. But, experts caution, amateurs, particularly sedentary ones, should not jump into a new sports activity without sufficient preparation. | 3 |
Skateboarding Offers a Tough Workout. By KRISTA LARSON SAYREVILLE, N.J. (AP) -- While the tennis courts at Kennedy Park are bare on a hot afternoon, parents keep dropping off teenagers at the skate park, home to all the day's action... | 3 |
Rats May Help Unravel Human Drug Addiction Mysteries. By LAURAN NEERGAARD WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rats can become drug addicts. That's important to know, scientists say, and has taken a long time to prove... | 3 |
Sting of Bug Bites Can Linger Into Adulthood. By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay Reporter HealthDayNews -- Contrary to popular belief, not all kids who are allergic to insect stings outgrow their sensitivity. Some people whose allergies left them in fear of bees, wasps, and the like as children still react to their stings as adults, but a new study offers relief: Allergy shots given in childhood can protect them for up to 20 years... | 3 |
FDA Warns of Terrorist Prescription Drug Tampering. By DIEDTRA HENDERSON WASHINGTON (AP) -- "Cues from chatter" gathered around the world are raising concerns that terrorists might try to attack the domestic food and drug supply, particularly illegally imported prescription drugs, acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Lester M. Crawford says... | 3 |
Scientists Probe Pacific Ocean for Dead Zones. His hand on a toggle switch and his eyes on a computer screen, Oregon State University graduate student Anthony Kirincich uses an array of scientific instruments to probe the vibrant waters of the Pacific. He is searching for the absence of life. | 3 |
Deaths Raise Fears Over Stomach Stapling Surgery. By LINDA A. JOHNSON (AP) -- An obese Massachusetts woman and her 8-month-old fetus died of complications 18 months after stomach-stapling surgery, an apparent first that is leading to warnings about the risks of pregancy soon after the surgery... | 3 |
Growth and Mortality Details of T. Rex Get Clearer. T. rex was one of the largest meat-eaters ever to walk the land when it died out some 65 million years ago. At an elephant-like 6 tons, it stretched about 40 feet to 45 feet long and measured about 13 feet tall at the hip. The adult skull alone was 5 feet long, with teeth up to a foot long. | 3 |
Britain Approves Human Cloning. By EMMA ROSS LONDON (AP) -- Britain granted its first license for human cloning Wednesday, more than three years after becoming the first nation to authorize the technique to produce stem cells for medical research. A team of researchers at Newcastle University hope eventually to create insulin-producing cells that could be transplanted into diabetic patients... | 3 |
New Clot Preventer Saves Lives and Money. By Ed Edelson, HealthDay Reporter HealthDayNews -- A new anti-clotting drug for people having artery-opening procedures lowers the rate of complications, gets patients out of the hospital faster, and probably saves lives, a study finds. And it saves money to boot, says Dr... | 3 |
The Eyes Are the Window to Hypertension. The tiniest blood vessels of the eye can provide a glimpse that may warn of future high blood pressure, Australian researchers report. That finding comes from a computerized analysis of special camera images of the retina, an experimental technique. | 3 |
Progress Is Made Battling Strep Germ. By LINDSEY TANNER CHICAGO (AP) -- Scientists say they are making headway in developing a vaccine against a common strep germ, the cause of millions of sore throats as well as a deadly but uncommon flesh-eating disease. A test of an experimental vaccine in just 28 people prompted an immune response with no serious side effects, but it's still not known if the shot would keep people from catching the strep germ... | 3 |
Fake Drug Sales Problematic in Mexico. By MARK STEVENSON MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican authorities are investigating the sale of fake or substandard medicine in a border town so popular among Americans seeking cheap medications that it has more pharmacies than streets. U.S... | 3 |
New Allergy Vaccine Shows Promise. In the first trial of its kind, Austrian researchers have achieved success with an allergy vaccine using genetically engineered pollen. The findings are reported in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. | 3 |
First Lady Bashes John Kerry's Pro Stem Cell Stance. By RON FOURNIER LANGHORNE, Pa. (AP) -- First lady Laura Bush defended her husband's policy on embryonic stem cell research Monday, calling Democratic rival John Kerry's criticism "ridiculous" and accusing proponents of overstating the potential for medical breakthroughs... | 3 |
Doctors Place Hope in Baby Pacemaker Devices. By LAURAN NEERGAARD WASHINGTON (AP) -- Four-month-old Damaris Ochoa was near death, born with an enlarged heart that was quickly giving out. Obtaining a transplant in time was a long shot... | 3 |
Vending Machines Making Room for Healthy Products. By IRA DREYFUSS WASHINGTON (AP) -- The typical vending machine fare consists of chocolate bars and potato chips, leaving few options for people seeking low-calorie or low-salt snacks. That is changing now as companies develop markets for products they expect to satisfy both nutritionists and consumers... | 3 |
Getting beyond the next big thing. McKinsey says a post-boom tech industry can profit mightily by taking stock in the operations of many slower-growth industries. | 3 |
If this is a tech rebound, pinch me. KnowledgeWharton goes inside the IT conundrum to examine why capital spending--and corporate confidence--remains low. | 3 |
Briefly: HP partners with 3G gear maker. roundup Plus: AMD starts shipping 90-nanometer chips...ABC.com to air on Real's SuperPass...Lenovo revenue grows, but problems persist. | 3 |
Judge moves to unseal documents in Oracle case. Says certain documents, which Oracle and others want to keep from eyes of rivals, may be necessary to decide case. | 3 |
Study: IT workers more optimistic. IT workers' confidence in the employment market kept growing in July, but techies are less happy with actual jobs than workers overall. | 3 |
California urged to use open source, VoIP. Authors of a performance review tell the beleaguered state government it could save millions of dollars by adopting open-source software and Internet-based phone calling. | 3 |
Gartner: 'Steer away' from cheap Windows XP. That's the research firm's verdict on Microsoft's stripped-down Starter Edition for developing countries. | 3 |
Oracle expands midmarket ambitions. Company looks to juice its application server business with a version tuned for smaller organizations. | 3 |
Earnings alert: BEA revenue rises amid turmoil. Plus: Dell meets expectations...Storage, servers bruise HP earnings...Healthy sales lift Cisco's profit. | 3 |
Lenovo revenue grows, but problems persist. China's largest PC maker sees surge in profits but loses market share to multinational companies. | 3 |
Dell's second-quarter earnings meet expectations. CEO says firm saw no sales slowdown. Could results help calm waters after bad news from HP and Cisco? | 3 |
Tech market indeed soft, but HP woes one of a kind. HP and Cisco spooked investors with recent comments about sales, but analysts say the overall tech market is still inching along. | 3 |
HP replaces three senior executives. Company follows up on promise of "immediate management changes" after disappointing earnings report, CNET News.com has learned. | 3 |
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?. When heir apparent Paul Otellini takes the reins, what will the chipmaker look like? | 3 |
IBM's mainframe momentum continues. Big Blue's "dinosaur" mainframe business gets a boost with a European customer consolidating SAP applications using Linux. | 3 |
Gateway alumnus resurfaces at HP. Former Gateway executive to lead consumer marketing efforts at Hewlett-Packard. | 3 |
Security pro: Windows easier to 'own'. Windows beats Linux in total cost of 'ownership.' Hold on, that's not a good thing. | 3 |
Securing the gold in Athens. Despite age-old Olympic truce known as the ekecheiria, or "holding of hands," security experts aren't taking any chances.\ | 3 |
Hacker takes bite out of Apple's iTunes. The Norwegian hacker famous for cracking DVD encryption reveals the public key for AirPort Express. | 3 |
Microsoft touts 'Sender ID' to fight spam, scams. Proposed tech standard would verify senders' IP addresses to cut malicious phishing and annoying Viagra pitches. | 3 |
Begging for trouble on security. Securify founder Taher Elgamal says a patchwork mentality has effectively turned network security into an IT budget black hole. | 3 |
Microsoft's blast from the past. A year after the MSBlast worm, the software giant releases SP2 for Windows XP. Would it have stopped the fast-spreading virus? | 3 |
MSBlast suspect pleads guilty. The 19-year-old faces up to 37 months in prison after admitting to creating the "MSBlast.B" variant. | 3 |
Microsoft plugs hole in Exchange. The patch fixes a flaw in the e-mail server software that could be used to get access to in-boxes and information. | 3 |
PC security under fire. A vulnerability in AOL's instant messenger could allow attacks. Also: A new Bagle variant rumbles across the Net. | 3 |