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HOUSTON - With power now flowing to the international space station's new robot, the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex started preparing Saturday for a spacewalk to assemble the giant machine.
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Activists vow to stop kangaroo cull AP - Sat Mar 15, 3:34 AM ET
Pre-Inca temple discovered in Peru AP - Fri Mar 14, 7:09 PM ET
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Weather News
More Southern severe storms
weather.com - 22 minutes ago
Storm, "possible tornado" blasts downtown Atlanta
AFP - 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A violent storm, possibly a tornado, wreaked havoc through downtown Atlanta, Georgia, toppling trees onto homes, blowing windows out of high-rises and injuring at least 20 people, city officials and the National Weather Service said Saturday.
The Nation's Weather
AP - Sat Mar 15, 7:15 AM ET
A storm that lashed the Southeast was moving northeastward toward the Mid-Atlantic coast, and was expected to bring heavy rain, strong winds and thunderstorms to both regions. Forecasters said severe weather was possible from Missouri into the Southeast.
Severe weather rocks the South
weather.com - Sat Mar 15, 6:35 AM ET
Tornado hits downtown Atlanta, 9 hurt
Reuters - Sat Mar 15, 5:29 AM ET
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A tornado struck the heart of downtown Atlanta on Friday night, injuring several people and damaging numerous buildings, including the roof of the Georgia Dome as thousands watched a college basketball game, the city's mayor and witnesses said.
Space & Astronomy News
Astronauts enter Japanese module, power to robot restored
AFP - Sat Mar 15, 8:24 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US and Japanese astronauts have entered for the first time a newly-installed Japanese module as engineers restored power to a Canadian-made robot that is key to future work in building the International Space Station.
Russian rocket fails to take US satellite into planned orbit
AFP - Sat Mar 15, 7:46 AM ET
MOSCOW (AFP) - A Russian rocket launched a communications satellite produced by US defence company Lockheed Martin into space on Saturday but failed to take it into the planned orbit, Russian space officials said.
Astronauts Fix Space Robot's Power Woes
SPACE.com - Sat Mar 15, 5:02 AM ET
HOUSTON — Astronauts remedied a power glitch with a giant robot outside the International Space Station (ISS) Friday evening, poising spacewalkers to attach its two arms tonight.
Rocket lifts off with GPS satellite
AP - Sat Mar 15, 4:23 AM ET
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Delta 2 rocket carrying a GPS satellite for the Air Force is on its way into orbit.
Astronauts prepare for spacewalk
AP - Sat Mar 15, 4:22 AM ET
HOUSTON - With power now flowing to the international space station's new robot, the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex started preparing Saturday for a spacewalk to assemble the giant machine.
Animals/Pets News
Japan kill half of their intended whale target: reports
AFP - Fri Mar 14, 10:19 AM ET
TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese authorities believe their whaling mission in the Antarctic will kill little more than half the intended goal due to harassment by environmentalists, reports said Friday.
Girl falls over fence at St. Louis Zoo
AP - Thu Mar 13, 7:22 PM ET
ST. LOUIS - A young girl fell over a wooden fence that borders a sun bear exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo, suffering a cut on her head but not coming near the animals.
McCartney hooked vegetarianism on fishing trip
AFP - Wed Mar 12, 10:35 AM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Pop legend Paul McCartney turned vegetarian after going on a fishing trip, he reveals in a new celebrity campaign for an animal rights group launched on Wednesday.
World tiger population shrinking fast, WWF warns
AFP - Wed Mar 12, 8:47 AM ET
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - The number of tigers in the world has diminished at an alarming speed in recent years, global conservation group WWF cautioned on Wednesday, blaming poaching for much of the decline.
Activists vow to block kangaroo cull in Australia
AFP - Wed Mar 12, 3:30 AM ET
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian animal rights activists vowed Wednesday to prevent the planned killing of more than 400 kangaroos on defence department land after the government refused to intervene.
Dinosaurs & Fossils News
S.African, US scientists find more 'hobbits' in Pacific
AFP - Wed Mar 12, 12:19 PM ET
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A team of scientists have discovered fossils of an extinct hobbit-like people on a Pacific Ocean island where they lived up to 3,000 years ago, a South African university has reported.
Geologist spots oreodont fossil in N.M.
AP - Tue Mar 11, 6:45 PM ET
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A geologic mapping project led to the finding of a 10 million-year-old fossil that's now being studied at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
Fossil Hunt Finds Warning for Warming Earth
LiveScience.com - Sun Mar 9, 1:55 PM ET
This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
'Hobbit' hominids were dwarf cretins, say scientists
AFP - Wed Mar 5, 11:14 AM ET
PARIS (AFP) - Anthropologists have fired another salvo in a feud about diminutive "hobbit" people whose fossilised remains were found in a cave on a remote Indonesian island four years ago.
Indonesian fossils belonged to diet-poor dwarfs
Reuters - Wed Mar 5, 3:29 AM ET
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Small human-like skeletons found in a cave on a remote Indonesian island were actually human and their miniature features probably due to nutritional deficiency, some researchers in Australia say.
Biotechnology News
Scientists find 'master' breast cancer gene
AFP - Thu Mar 13, 4:47 AM ET
PARIS (AFP) - Geneticists have identified a super gene which causes breast cancer to metastasise, the deadly process by which the disease spreads to other organs.
U.S. organic food industry fears GMO contamination
Reuters - Wed Mar 12, 8:54 AM ET
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Widespread contamination of U.S. corn, soybeans and other crops by genetically engineered varieties is threatening the purity of organic and natural food products and driving purveyors of such specialty products to new efforts to protect their markets, industry leaders said this week.
South Korea clips astronaut's wings after rule-break
Reuters - Sun Mar 9, 11:54 PM ET
SEOUL (Reuters) - The man intended to be the first South Korean in space has been grounded for violating security protocol and will be replaced by a female biotechnology engineer, the science ministry said on Monday.
Brazilian protesters destroy GM crops: group
AFP - Fri Mar 7, 2:48 PM ET
SAO PAULO (AFP) - Around 300 women rural residents in Brazil burst into a property owned by the US company Monsanto and destroyed a plant nursery and crops containing genetically modified corn, their organization said.
Mexico farmers quietly plant banned GM corn
Reuters - Fri Mar 7, 1:19 PM ET
EJIDO BENITO JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - In the dry state of Chihuahua, south of the Texas border, 68-year-old Amado Trevizo became an accidental outlaw last year when his son planted 10 sacks of seeds of GM corn, banned in Mexico.
Energy News
Fuel-cell cars still far from showroom: Toyota
AFP - Thu Mar 13, 12:18 PM ET
TOKYO (AFP) - Work is moving ahead to build a next-generation eco-friendly car running on fuel cells but it will take years to make it commercially viable, the head of auto giant Toyota said Thursday.
Ukraine, Russia resolve gas disagreement
AP - Thu Mar 13, 5:12 AM ET
MOSCOW - Russia's natural gas monopoly OAO Gazprom says an agreement has been reached with Ukraine on gas deliveries for the remainder of the year.
Gulf gas explosion injures six, one missing
Reuters - Wed Mar 12, 5:51 PM ET
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A natural gas explosion injured six crew members of a pipeline maintenance vessel off the coast of Louisiana and left one person missing, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday.
Oil prices burst record 110 dollars
AFP - Wed Mar 12, 3:34 PM ET
NEW YORK (AFP) - Rocketing oil prices broke through 110 dollars per barrel for the first time in New York on Wednesday continuing a record run amid supply concerns and fevered market speculation.
Philippines to spend 142 mln dlrs on environment in 2008
AFP - Wed Mar 12, 12:03 PM ET
MANILA (AFP) - The Philippines is to spend 141.5 million dollars on nature conservation and alternative energy in 2008, President Gloria Arroyo said Wednesday.
Most Popular Science News
Creatures Clone Selves in Face of Danger
LiveScience.com - Fri Mar 14, 9:11 AM ET
If there's something strange in the neighborhood ... clone yourself. That's the philosophy of sand dollar larvae, which copy themselves when they sense predators are near.
Indian DNA links to 6 'founding mothers'
AP - Thu Mar 13, 6:14 PM ET
NEW YORK - Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests.
Pre-Inca temple discovered in Peru
AP - Fri Mar 14, 7:09 PM ET
LIMA, Peru - Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, roadway and irrigation systems at a famed fortress overlooking the Inca capital of Cuzco, according to officials involved with the dig.
Alligators move lungs to dive, roll in water
Reuters - Thu Mar 13, 1:26 PM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Alligators can stealthily maneuver through the water leaving nary a ripple, despite having neither fins nor flippers like other adept swimmers. Instead, they use special muscles to shift the position of their lungs, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
Scientists discover gene that controls fruit shape
AFP - Thu Mar 13, 4:49 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US scientists have discovered and cloned a gene that controls the shape of tomatoes, a find which could help unravel the morphological mysteries of the plant world, a study released Thursday said.
