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Italy dig unearths female 'vampire' in Venice
(AP)
AP - An archaeological dig near Venice has unearthed the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws evidence, experts say, that she was believed to be a vampire. The unusual burial is thought to be the result of an ancient vampire-slaying ritual. It suggests the legend of the mythical bloodsucking creatures was tied to medieval ignorance of how diseases spread and what...
Bad Biology: Girls Should Not Get Pregnant
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Many women in the United State delay marriage to jump-start their careers, but women in numerous other countries tend to follow ancient traditions and marry young, sometimes too young.
A recent report by Boston University School of Public Health researcher Anita Raj and colleagues claims that half of Indian women aged 20 to 24 had been brides when they were under 18, the...
Debris near space station was bigger than reported
(Reuters)
Reuters - The piece of orbital space junk that forced three astronauts to briefly evacuate the International Space Station on Thursday was bigger than originally reported, NASA officials said on Friday.
Kuwait says all options open ahead of OPEC meet
(AFP)
AFP - Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah al-Sabah said on Friday that all options were open ahead of a weekend OPEC meeting that will discuss possible oil output cuts amid falling crude...
Brain Scans Can Read Memories
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Humans create
memories of locations in physical or virtual space as they move around - and it
all shows up on brain scans.
Space Shuttle On Track for Sunday Launch
(SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - The space shuttle Discovery is on track for a planned
Sunday evening launch, pending the successful repair of a hydrogen gas leak
that prevented an attempted liftoff earlier this week, NASA officials said
today.
NASA: Good shot at Sunday shuttle launch
(AP)
AP - NASA feels it has a good shot at sending shuttle Discovery to the international space station on Sunday following repairs out at the launch...
Dog sniffs for tiger droppings in Cambodia
(AFP)
AFP - A dog trained in Russia to sniff for tiger droppings has begun searching for the big cats in a protected area in Cambodia, conservationists said...
Repairs start to fix US shuttle gas leak
(AFP)
AFP - NASA engineers Friday began work to replace several parts on the space shuttle Discovery after a gas leak delayed its launch just hours before lift-off, the US space agency...
Great White Sharks Once Grew Slower, Fossil Shows
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Editor's Note: The story has been revised to clarify that ancient great white sharks likely grew more slowly but could have ultimately been longer, not smaller, than great whites today.
Some fear Navy sonar may harm Fla.'s right whales
(AP)
AP - In the blue-green surf, 11 endangered North Atlantic right whales surface, jump and shoot mist high into the air through their blow...
Swiss zoo says celebrity hippo won't be killed
(AP)
AP - A Swiss zoo on Friday rejected suggestions that a baby hippopotamus could be killed and fed to the big cats because of lack of...
The Nation's Weather
(AP)
AP - Turbulent weather was to continue in the Southeast on Friday, while the East and West were to be warm and...
Iran dismisses sanctions, launches gas project
(Reuters)
Reuters - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed international sanctions against Iran as a "childish idea" on Friday as he officially launched a natural gas project in the Gulf, Iranian media reported.
Animal-rights activists get personal in wave of California attacks
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - The recent fire-bombing of a university professor's car here appears to be part of a trend of animal-rights activists targeting the personal lives of researchers, rather than just the labs or companies where they work. The idea is to scare the scientists into reconsidering using animals in their research work.
SKorea, Obama seek halt to NKorea rocket launch
(AFP)
File/Jung Yeon-Je)" border="0" />AFP - South Korea warned of United Nations "countermeasures" after North Korea set dates for a satellite launch seen by Seoul and Washington as a disguised test of a missile which could reach...
UN agencies: NKorea plans April satellite launch
(AP)
AP - North Korea told two U.N. agencies it plans to launch a communications satellite between April 4-8 an unprecedented disclosure seen as trying to fend off international worries that it is really a test of long-range missile...
Great White Sharks Were Once Shorter, Fossil Shows
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - The most complete fossil of an ancient great white shark has been found in the dry deserts of Peru, including parts of the spinal column and a mouthful of 222 teeth.
Great whites are the undisputed king of sharks today, with bodies that can reach more than 20 feet (6 meters) in length. But not much is known about their evolutionary history. Seems they were a bit shorter 4...
Shuttle Astronauts Await Sunday Launch Attempt
(SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - The seven
astronauts set to launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on Sunday are filling
some free time caused by their latest flight delay with some last-minute
training and visits with family.
Finger Length Predicts Speed, Aggression, Smarts, Motivation
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Boys with ring fingers longer than their index fingers run faster, a new study finds.
Shuttle Astronauts Await Sunday Launch Attempt
(SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - The seven
astronauts set to launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on Sunday are filling
some free time caused by their latest flight delay with some last-minute
training and visits with family.
THURSDAY 12. MARCH 2009
Female Bird Jams Mate's Flirtatious Signals
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Like a jealous woman intercepting her flirtatious husband's
overtures to another woman, a female bird of one species jams her male
partner's love messages to keep the signals from reaching another
female, a new study suggests.
Mars orbiter succesfully rebooted: NASA
(AFP)
AFP - NASA engineers successfully rebooted the Mars Odyssey orbiter Thursday in an operation to clear its systems of memory flaws and restore a faulty backup system, the space agency...
Judge approves criticized plea deal in BP blast
(AP)
AP - A federal judge has approved a highly criticized plea deal that fines BP PLC $50 million for its role in a deadly 2005 blast at its refinery near...