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Today's Science News: Colorado county copes with methane mystery Father of China's space tech program dies at 98 2 parachutes malfunctioned in NASA test flight Rest Easy: Retirement (and Money) Can Improve Sleep China rushes to clean up oil spill on Yangtze INTERVIEW - Suzlon sees delays hitting orders Probe to track impact of warming on Earth's water Human Genome lupus drug succeeds in late-stage trial US rubber company disputes Liberia pollution study Australian oil spill 'putting animals at risk' New Dinosaur Built Like a Sherman Tank Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions The nation's weather Mars Rover Spirit Has Amnesia Again Amgen, Amerisource sued over drug kickback scheme BP hit with record US fine for safety violations Typhoon cuts power, uproots trees in Philippines Colorado county copes with methane mystery Sun, 1 Nov 2009 04:19 pm PST AP - Bernice and Jerry Angely like to show visitors the singed T-shirt a friend was wearing when their water well exploded and shot flames 30 feet high. Full Story Top Father of China's space tech program dies at 98 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:33 am PDT AP - Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China's space technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98. Full Story Top 2 parachutes malfunctioned in NASA test flight Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:21 am PDT AP - Two of three parachutes malfunctioned in the test flight of a prototype moon rocket earlier this week, causing major damage to the booster, NASA said Friday. Full Story Top Rest Easy: Retirement (and Money) Can Improve Sleep Sun, 1 Nov 2009 06:32 am PST LiveScience.com - It's no secret the stress of work can keep you up at nights. Now research shows that retirement can spur less fitful sleep, at least for people who are financially stable. Full Story Top China rushes to clean up oil spill on Yangtze Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:38 pm PST AFP - Authorities in China rushed to clean up an oil spill at the mouth of the Yangtze River after an Iranian-registered ship ran aground in bad weather, state media said Monday. Full Story Top INTERVIEW - Suzlon sees delays hitting orders Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:27 pm PDT Reuters - Delays in sealing new orders forced Indian wind power company Suzlon Energy Ltd to cut its sales forecast, but the company will still see full-year profits near last year's level, an executive said on Saturday. Full Story Top Probe to track impact of warming on Earth's water Sun, 1 Nov 2009 07:14 pm PST AFP - A 315-million-euro satellite that will gauge the impact of climate change on the movement of water across land, air and sea was hoisted into space early Monday, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. Full Story Top Human Genome lupus drug succeeds in late-stage trial Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:11 pm PST Reuters - Human Genome Sciences Inc said on Monday that its experimental lupus drug Benlysta was successful in a late-stage clinical trial, paving the way for approval of the first treatment for the disease in 50 years. Full Story Top US rubber company disputes Liberia pollution study Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:31 am PDT AP - An American-owned rubber company is disputing claims by the Liberian government that the company's waste products are polluting creeks. Full Story Top Australian oil spill 'putting animals at risk' Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:22 am PDT AFP - A massive oil leak off Australia's northwest coast poses an "immediate risk" to dozens of marine species, with untold numbers possibly dying and sinking to the Timor Sea floor, a report has said. Full Story Top New Dinosaur Built Like a Sherman Tank Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:35 am PDT LiveScience.com - A husband and wife team of paleontologists has discovered a newfound species of armored dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago in what is now Montana. Full Story Top Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions Sun, 1 Nov 2009 02:42 pm PST AFP - Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth. Full Story Top The nation's weather Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:57 am PDT AP - Rain and flooding were forecast to continue over the Mississippi River on Friday as a strong front lingered over the region. Full Story Top Mars Rover Spirit Has Amnesia Again Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:42 pm PDT SPACE.com - NASA's Mars rover Spirit is suffering a new bout of amnesia, one that comes after months of being stuck in deep Martian sand. Full Story Top Amgen, Amerisource sued over drug kickback scheme Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:19 pm PDT Reuters - Biotechnology giant Amgen Inc and drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen Corp were sued on Friday by 14 U.S. states and the District of Columbia over an alleged kickback scheme designed to boost sales of Amgen's popular anemia drug, Aranesp. Full Story Top BP hit with record US fine for safety violations Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:41 pm PDT AFP - British oil giant BP has been hit with a record US fine of 87.4 million dollars for safety violations at a Texas refinery where 15 people were killed in a 2005 explosion, officials said Friday. Full Story Top Typhoon cuts power, uproots trees in Philippines Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:39 pm PDT Reuters - The third typhoon to hit the Philippines in five weeks slammed into the main island of Luzon on Saturday, uprooting trees and toppling power lines, but there were no immediate reports of widespread damage. Full Story Top

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