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AFP - Stunned astronomers have discovered that a small, distant moon of Saturn has the largest ring in the Solar...
AFP - Stunned astronomers have discovered that a small, distant moon of Saturn has the largest ring in the Solar...
AFP - Tropical storm Parma brought more heavy rains and misery to already flooded areas of the northern Philippines on Wednesday, as it hovered just off the coast for the third consecutive...
AP - If Nobel judges are looking to improve the balance of women winning the chemistry prize, Israeli scientist Ada Yonath could be a strong candidate when the award is announced Wednesday.
AP - The U.S. military is ramping up aid to victims of a deadly earthquake that made hundreds of thousands homeless on Sumatra island — its largest relief operation in Muslim-majority Indonesia since the 2004...
AP - A jury expert testified Tuesday that publicity ahead of the trial of a former San Francisco Bay Area transit officer accused in a fatal train platform shooting has resulted in an "astronomical" level of knowledge in the case.
Reuters - A powerful typhoon approached Japan's main islands on Wednesday, threatening the heavily populated country's industrial centers with torrential rain and strong...
AP - The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced late Tuesday.
AP - A government study found that a group of endangered beluga whales in Alaska is declining, raising concern that bolstered protection for the animals is not coming quickly...
AFP - Computing giant Apple defected from the US Chamber of Commerce, as a growing rift emerges over the group's opposition to tough climate change rules, according to a...
AP - An electric power co-op that wants to build a coal-fired plant in northern Michigan has received a $2.7 million federal grant for a project designed to prevent industrial carbon dioxide from contributing to climate change, officials said Tuesday.
TUESDAY 6. OCTOBER 2009
AP - A former executive of Biopure Corp. has been sentenced to three years in prison for pretending he had terminal colon cancer to dodge a federal lawsuit filed by securities regulators.
AP - The United Nations appealed Tuesday for $74 million to help 1 million flood victims in the Philippines, which has been lashed by two major...
McClatchy Newspapers - CHAHARQULBA, Afghanistan -- As the sky hinted at dawn, U.S. soldiers went hunting for Taliban in the Arghandab Valley. They had satellite-linked monocles to display the locations of platoons. They could summon an aerial drone to buzz overhead with a surveillance camera. They could call on Kiowa helicopters for search-and-destroy missions.
AFP - Computing giant Apple has decided to leave the US Chamber of Commerce in protest over the organization's opposition to tough climate change rules, according to a letter published on...
SPACE.com - Get ready for a unique cosmic collision! Early this coming Friday morning (Oct. 9), NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will end its mission with a bang — literally.
LiveScience.com - In football, kicking a field goal can be a nail-biter for players and sports fans alike. Turns out, if a kicker is having a bad day, with several failed attempts, the target could seem even more elusive on his next chance to score, according to a new study.
SPACE.com - United States President Barack Obama will welcome skywatchers to the White House Wednesday for an evening of stargazing with the First Family.
AFP - AES Geo Energy, a Bulgarian unit of US energy giant AES Corporation, launched on Tuesday the largest 156-megawatt wind farm in Bulgaria, the company...
AFP - French researchers on Tuesday said they had uncovered the biggest dinosaur footprints in the world, left by giant sauropods that may have weighed 40 tonnes or...
AP - The company that makes booster rockets for the space shuttle is laying off 550 engineers, factory workers and others at three Utah locations.
SPACE.com - Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte, an acrobat-turned-space tourist, is getting used to floating in weightlessness on the International Space Station and said Tuesday that the trip was more than worth the multimillion-dollar price tag.
AFP - British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on Tuesday said it had agreed a long-term joint venture with Chinese peer Jiangsu Walvax Biotech Company to make paediatric vaccines for use in...
AP - A Colorado-based company could be in the market for abandoned ethanol plants in Nebraska.
AFP - The aviation industry on Tuesday urged governments against using taxes and levies on airlines as a quick-fix solution to cutting harmful gas...
LiveScience.com - Scientists now find that the world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon, most likely evolved in Australia and dispersed westward to its current home in Indonesia.