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SPACE.com - The space shuttle Endeavour moved to a new launch pad Thursday to gear up for a supply run to the International Space Station next month.
SPACE.com - The space shuttle Endeavour moved to a new launch pad Thursday to gear up for a supply run to the International Space Station next month.
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AP - The Mexican Senate has passed a controversial energy reform meant to revitalize the nation's flagging oil industry.
AP - NASA is trying again to wake up the sleeping science computer on the Hubble Space...
LiveScience.com - A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds. The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventually makes its way, well, out. The new research found that cells lining mice's blood vessels naturally make the gas and this...
AP - A television ad created by opponents of a ballot measure that would allow embryonic stem-cell research in Michigan likens such work to the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study.
AFP - French astronomers on Thursday said they had measured vibrations from distant stars for the first time, a technical feat that could also help answer questions about naturally-caused climate change on...
LiveScience.com - That morning cup of coffee could give you a rosier outlook on the world. New research reveals that individuals who held the warm beverage viewed a stranger as having warmer personality traits than when holding an iced coffee.
AP - Time to update that old saying "cold hands, warm heart." New research shows touching something warm can make you feel and act more warmly toward others.
LiveScience.com - A potent greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than was previously estimated, a new study reports.
AFP - Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi refused to be drawn on Thursday on the possibility that OPEC will announce a cut to its crude production at an emergency policy meeting due...
AP - Federal regulators told Congress Thursday they're working on a plan that could help many distressed homeowners escape foreclosure in a global financial crisis that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned will get worse before it gets...
AFP - Leaders of 40 of the world's major cities pledged action Thursday to fight climate change, taking measures ranging from promoting solar energy to tracking genetically modified...
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AP - Weather around the U.S.A.
SPACE.com - Two Russian cosmonauts and American space tourist Richard Garriott are set to cast off from the International Space Station tonight for the return to Earth, and they're hoping for a smooth ride home.
LiveScience.com - Making money in 2008 looks like a grim proposition, but not because U.S. government printing presses can't create enough dollar bills.
AP - Heavy snow was to blast Nebraska and Kansas on Thursday, while clear skies dawned over the East and sunshine drenched the...
AFP - Kuwait's Oil Minister Mohammad al-Olaim said on Thursday that OPEC should act over crude prices but that any measure must take into account the global financial...
AFP - A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Papua New Guineau on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or...
AP - Want to lose weight? Try eating. That's one of the strategies being developed by scientists experimenting with foods that trick the body into feeling...
AFP - Government forces captured several bunkers from Tamil Tiger rebels as heavy fighting raged despite torrential monsoon rains in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said...
AFP - OPEC ministers began arriving here Thursday on the eve of a key meeting at which the cartel is set to cut its oil output, to help lift crude prices hit by a drop in demand caused by an economic...
AFP - Iran's oil minister on Thursday said that a drop in demand meant OPEC should decide to cut production by two million barrels per day when it meets for a meeting here on...
AFP - India's first moon mission not only makes it a serious player in space exploration but also holds the prospect of a bigger slice of the lucrative satellite launch market, analysts...