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AFP - The US space shuttle Discovery's crew awoke Tuesday to begin unloading tons of equipment to the International Space Station, with two astronauts preparing to set out on the mission's first...
AFP - The US space shuttle Discovery's crew awoke Tuesday to begin unloading tons of equipment to the International Space Station, with two astronauts preparing to set out on the mission's first...
AFP - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moom visited Tuesday a research community in Ny-Aalesund in the Arctic's Svalbard archipelago to see the effects of climate change first-hand, officials...
AP - An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending them alive into a grinder, and other chicks falling through a sorting machine to die on the factory floor.
AP - Legislation to confront climate change could be an economic godsend to farmers and ranchers. Or it could be an enormous financial burden.
Reuters - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on world leaders on Monday to take urgent action to combat climate change for the sake of "the future of humanity."
Reuters - A U.S. ethanol industry group is pushing lawmakers to craft legislation requiring gasoline filling stations to inform customers what country their fuel came from in hopes of increasing awareness about money spent on oil imported from overseas.
AFP - Angola will begin planting sugar cane for the first time in more than 30 years this month as the oil-rich country takes its first step toward...
Reuters - An Indonesian communications satellite launched from China failed to enter a preset orbit, state media reported, in another setback in China's efforts to market its space launch capability.
AP - An Army chemical weapons disposal plant that handled nerve gas and other deadly agents has been properly cleaned and closed, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday.
AP - Astronauts hitched a giant chest of drawers to the international space station on Monday that contained a brand new freezer, sleeping compartment and treadmill bearing a TV comedian's...
SPACE.com - A NASA spacecraft has snapped new views of the of the Earth together with its moon, which the spacecraft is scheduled to slam into in October.
SPACE.com - It's moving day at the International Space Station, where astronauts installed a cargo module packed full of fresh supplies, science gear and a treadmill named after Stephen Colbert.
MONDAY 31. AUGUST 2009
SPACE.com - A NASA spacecraft has snapped new views of the of the Earth together with its moon, which the spacecraft is scheduled to slam into in October.
SPACE.com - It's moving day at the International Space Station, where astronauts are installing a cargo module packed full of fresh supplies, science gear and a treadmill named after Stephen Colbert.
LiveScience.com - The bittersweet reunion of abducted girl Jaycee Lee Dugard with her family touches on the worst fears of a parent and leaves us all shaking our heads as to how someone could commit such an act. Social psychologists have some answers.
LiveScience.com - The search for the best observatory site in the world has lead to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth - a place where no human is thought to have ever set foot.
AP - Gray wolf hunting will begin in the Northern Rockies as a federal judge considers an injunction request by environmental and animal welfare groups to stop the predators from being killed.
SPACE.com - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory seems to be in the clear from the threat of a nearby wildfire, but the historic observatory atop Mt. Wilson is potentially facing a closer call.
Reuters - Getting humans to Mars will require medical research on the International Space Station through at least 2020, said the program's lead scientist, presenting a time frame five years beyond NASA's current budget forecast.
File/Fabrice Coffrini)" border="0" />AFP - Meteorologists opened the World Climate Conference on Monday in what a US official called a "critical" attempt to share information globally and help communities worldwide adapt to climate...
AP - Folks living along the East Coast were in higher water early this summer thanks to a change in the wind and current flow.
AFP - Air pollution has over the past 50 years led to a reduction of the light rainfall in China essential for the country's agriculture and water resources, a Chinese researcher said...
AFP - Greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union fell for the fourth year running in 2008, thanks to the economic recession, the European Environment Agency (EAA) said...
LiveScience.com - As exaggerated as many popular depictions of psychopaths often are, many nevertheless do pose a genuine danger to others. So what makes psychopaths the way they are?
SPACE.com - A team of six intrepid mice are going where no rodents have gone before: The International Space Station.