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Today's Science News: King salmon vanishing in Alaska, smokehouses empty Hawaii protecting coral reefs with big fines Nissan rolls out electric car at new headquarters Humans 2.0: Replacing the Mind and Body Sage grouse unlikely focus of Wyoming wind wars IEA official warns of shrinking oil supplies: report Astronauts return from space to sushi overload 'Suicide' Genes Help Slow Ovarian Tumor Growth in Mice RU-486 abortion drug to be allowed in Italy Bolivia bans use of animals in circuses Oldest Animal Fossils Found in Lakes, Not Oceans China suspends 2 environment bosses for pollution The Nation's weather Astronaut Saves Shea Stadium Home Plate NY taxpayers to pay donors for stem cell studies Coal fires up India farmers against power plants Mild season in Tornado Alley frustrates scientists King salmon vanishing in Alaska, smokehouses empty Sun, 2 Aug 2009 01:34 pm PDT AP - Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon — long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters. But they're mostly empty. Full Story Top Hawaii protecting coral reefs with big fines Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:43 am PDT AP - Wrecking coral will cost you in Hawaii. Full Story Top Nissan rolls out electric car at new headquarters Sun, 2 Aug 2009 12:42 am PDT AP - Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn drove quietly out of the Japanese automaker's soon-to-open headquarters Sunday in the first public viewing of its new zero-emission vehicle. Full Story Top Humans 2.0: Replacing the Mind and Body Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:03 am PDT LiveScience.com - When President Barack Obama said in his weekly radio address Saturday that innovation would be a key to the future of the nation, he probably was not thinking specifically of artificial brains or replacement eyeballs. Full Story Top Sage grouse unlikely focus of Wyoming wind wars Sun, 2 Aug 2009 08:46 pm PDT Reuters - They used to mine coal in the abandoned town of Carbon. Now this patch of southern Wyoming is a battleground in the debate over what many hope will be the clean energy source of the future: wind power. Full Story Top IEA official warns of shrinking oil supplies: report Sun, 2 Aug 2009 06:04 pm PDT AFP - A disastrous energy crunch is looming because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production, a leading economist warned Monday. Full Story Top Astronauts return from space to sushi overload Sat, 1 Aug 2009 01:21 am PDT AP - Koichi Wakata was still getting used to gravity, though it wasn't going to stop him from diving into a deluge of sushi. Full Story Top 'Suicide' Genes Help Slow Ovarian Tumor Growth in Mice Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:48 pm PDT HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with "suicide" genes slowed ovarian tumor growth in mice and may one day offer a way to treat late-stage ovarian cancer in women, U.S. scientists say. Full Story Top RU-486 abortion drug to be allowed in Italy Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:58 am PDT AP - Italy has approved the use of the abortion drug RU-486, capping years of debate and defying opposition from the Vatican, which warned of immediate excommunication for doctors prescribing the pill and for women who use it. Full Story Top Bolivia bans use of animals in circuses Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:38 pm PDT AP - Bolivia has enacted what animal rights defenders are calling the world's first law that prohibits the use of animals in circuses. Full Story Top Oldest Animal Fossils Found in Lakes, Not Oceans Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:12 pm PDT LiveScience.com - Conventional wisdom has it that the first animals evolved in the ocean. Now researchers studying ancient rock samples in South China have found that the first animal fossils are preserved in ancient lake deposits, not in marine sediments as commonly assumed. These new findings not only raise questions as to where the earliest animals were living, but what factors drove animals to evolve in the first place. For some 3 billion years, single-celled life forms such as bacteria dominated the planet. ... Full Story Top China suspends 2 environment bosses for pollution Sat, 1 Aug 2009 11:13 pm PDT AP - Authorities in central China suspended two environment officials and detained a chemical plant boss after hundreds of residents protested, claiming the factory polluted a river and caused at least two deaths in the area, an official said Sunday. Full Story Top The Nation's weather Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:31 am PDT AP - The East was expected to be wet and stormy on Friday, while the Northwest was forecast to remain hot. Full Story Top Astronaut Saves Shea Stadium Home Plate Sat, 1 Aug 2009 06:01 am PDT SPACE.com - NEW YORK - The longtime home of the New York Mets baseball team, Shea Stadium, may be history, but a crucial part has been immortalized by a trip to space. Full Story Top NY taxpayers to pay donors for stem cell studies Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:23 pm PDT AP - Hanqi Miao said she wanted to donate her eggs to help infertile couples reproduce, but she acknowledged the money is good, too: She said she'll be paid about $5,000. Full Story Top Coal fires up India farmers against power plants Sat, 1 Aug 2009 11:19 pm PDT AFP - Rajni Ramakan Patil has a message for the energy companies that want to build coal-based power stations on the land that she and two generations of her family have farmed for more than 50 years. Full Story Top Mild season in Tornado Alley frustrates scientists Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:35 pm PDT AP - This has been an unusually mild year in Tornado Alley, which is good news, of course, for the people who live here, but a little frustrating to scientists who planned to chase twisters as part of a $10 million research project. Full Story Top

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