06 Feb 2012

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Wanted: Mock Astronauts for Mission to Mars ... in Hawaii (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - If you've ever dreamed of becoming an astronaut and have four months to spare, you might have the "right stuff" to fly to Mars … well, sort of.

06 Feb 2012 1:01pm GMT

Google Earth Update Erases Underwater 'Atlantis' Error (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A Google Earth map that raised rumors of the lost city of Atlantis has gotten a much-needed update, ridding the seafloor of a gridlike pattern that some vigilant users suspected were sunken streets from the mythological underwater city.

06 Feb 2012 1:01pm GMT

Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Ramping Up Toward Passenger Flights (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - LOS ANGELES, Calif. - This year is key for Virgin Galactic's bid to become the first commercial spaceliner service, as rocket-powered flights of its SpaceShipTwo are on the books for summer.

06 Feb 2012 1:00pm GMT

Rescuers dig to reach trapped in Philippines quake (AP)

CORRECTS MAGNITUDE - Bartolome Bautista, deputy director of Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), points to the epicenter of the magnitude 6.8 earthquake which hit central Philippines on Monday Feb. 6, 2012 during a news conference at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Officials said the quake in central Philippines killed at least five people as it destroyed buildings, triggered landslides that buried dozens of houses, trapping residents and listed 29 more as missing. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake Monday that shook a central Philippine island and set off landslides.


06 Feb 2012 11:13am GMT

The nations weather (AP)

AP - Weather Underground Forecast for Monday, February 06, 2012.

06 Feb 2012 9:57am GMT

China bars its airlines from paying EU carbon tax (AP)

AP - China announced Monday it will prohibit its airlines from paying European Union charges on carbon emissions, ratcheting up a global dispute over the cost of combatting climate change.

06 Feb 2012 5:07am GMT

Sierra Club Received Millions from Natural Gas Industry (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork - According to a blog post from Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, the environmentalist organization accepted millions of donated dollars from the natural gas industry to fight against coal-fired plants nationwide. Here are the details.

06 Feb 2012 4:31am GMT

05 Feb 2012

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Fire at Moscow nuclear institute, Russia says no risk (Reuters)

Reuters - There was no risk of a radiation leak after a fire broke out at a Moscow nuclear research center housing a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor Sunday, said officials, but Greenpeace Russia expressed serious concern about the incident.

05 Feb 2012 6:15pm GMT

Clinton urges Bulgaria to be energy independent (AP)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a press conference at the 48th Munich Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany, on Saturday Feb. 4, 2012. The Security Conference is a three-day event bringing together top defence and diplomacy officials from around the world discussing the winding down of the NATO engagement in Afghanistan and other looming challenges. (AP Photo/Jim Watson,Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Bulgaria, urging the country to break its energy dependence on Russia by diversifying its oil and gas supplies.


05 Feb 2012 10:48am GMT

03 Feb 2012

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New map pinpoints Lyme disease risk areas (AP)

This map released by the Yale School of Public Health on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 shows a map which indicates areas of the eastern United States where people have the highest risk of contracting Lyme disease based on data from 2004-2007. Researchers dragged sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks for the survey. The map shows a clear risk across much of the Northeast, from Maine to northern Virginia. Researchers at Yale University also identified a high-risk region across most of Wisconsin, northern Minnesota and a sliver of northern Illinois. Areas highlighted as 'emerging risk' regions include the Illinois-Indiana border, the New York-Vermont border, southwestern Michigan and eastern North Dakota. (AP Graphic/Yale School of Public Health, Maria Diuk-Wasser)AP - Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.


03 Feb 2012 6:22pm GMT

Same Genes Key to Early & Late-Onset Alzheimer's: Study (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- People who develop Alzheimer's disease late in life may have the same gene mutations linked to the inherited, early onset form of the condition, according to a new study.

03 Feb 2012 4:46am GMT

02 Feb 2012

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NASA says Russian space woes no worry (AP)

AP - NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program.

02 Feb 2012 11:36pm GMT

Sex & Parenting Genes Discovered in Mice (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but how did they get there? Our gender differences might be a function of how our brains react to hormones, a new study on mice suggests.

02 Feb 2012 6:25pm GMT

Where's the snow? Not in Lower 48, but elsewhere (AP)

In this photo combination, hundreds of cars are stranded on Lake Shore Drive on Feb. 2, 2011, in Chicago, left, while traffic moves along smoothly on the same stretch of Lake Shore Drive on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, right. A winter blizzard of historic proportions wobbled an otherwise snow-tough Chicago on Feb. 1, 2011, stranding hundreds of drivers for up to 12 hours overnight on the city's showcase thoroughfare and giving many city schoolchildren their first ever snow day. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)AP - Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL.


02 Feb 2012 2:19am GMT

Sandia Labs engineers create 'self-guided' bullet (AP)

In this undated photo provided by Sandia National Laboratories, a time exposure, a light-emitting diode, or LED, attached to a self-guided bullet at Sandia National Laboratories shows a bright path during a nighttime field test. The New Mexico-based Sandia National Laboratories announced Tuesday Jan. 31, 2012 that its engineers have invented a bullet that directs itself to a target like a tiny guided missile and can hit a target more than a mile away. According to Sandia Labs engineers, the bullet twists and turns to guide itself toward a laser-directed point. Officials say it can make up to thirty corrections per second while in the air. (AP Photo/Sandia National Laboratories)AP - A bullet that directs itself like a tiny guided missile and can hit a target more than a mile away has the potential to change the battlefield for soldiers without costing too much, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories said Wednesday.


02 Feb 2012 12:19am GMT

30 Jan 2012

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AP Enterprise: Monkey owners flee La. crackdown (AP)

In this Jan. 24, 2012 photo, Jim and Donita Clark play with two of their four Capuchin monkeys in the bedroom inside their RV at an undisclosed location near the Louisiana Border in Texas. Even in their Texas hideout, the Clarks are terrified that wildlife agents from their home state of Louisiana will descend on their motorhome and seize the four Capuchin monkeys they've reared for 10 years. Exotic animal owners like them say wildlife agents have been cracking down in Louisiana and around the country after high-profile cases of exotic animals getting loose or attacking people. At least six states have also banned the ownership of wild animals since 2005, and Congress is also mulling tighter restrictions. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Even in their Texas hideout, Jim and Donita Clark are terrified that wildlife agents from their home state of Louisiana will descend on their motorhome and seize the four Capuchin monkeys they've reared for 10 years.


30 Jan 2012 1:44pm GMT