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Today's Science News: Psychiatric experts assess parental alienation Giant penguins with no tux? Fossil feathers say so Could 'Goldilocks' planet be just right for life? Stress Brings Out the Difference in Male, Female Brains S.Korea, S.Africa to sign nuclear power deal: report Mexico has no plans to sue over oil spill, for now: official Newest Mars Rover Gets Its Arm and Wheels in Shape Hundreds of Genes May Influence Your Height Study shows progress with stem cell alternative Bill would exempt wolves from federal protection Ancient penguins not so well dressed: scientists CA-CANADA Summary The nation's weather Comet and Earth to Have Rare Close Encounter Genetic Glitch Tied to Disrupted Sperm Production BP pledges Gulf of Mexico oil fields to spill fund NOAA opens more Gulf waters to fishing after spill Psychiatric experts assess parental alienation Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:38 pm PDT AP - The American Psychiatric Association has a hot potato on its hands as it updates its catalog of mental disorders — whether to include parental alienation, a disputed term conveying how a child's relationship with one estranged parent can be poisoned by the other. Full Story Top Giant penguins with no tux? Fossil feathers say so Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:12 pm PDT AP - Some ancient penguins may have been twice as big as today's Emperor penguin but they lacked the dashing tuxedo. Researchers unearthed remains of a nearly 5-foot-tall penguin that roamed what is now Peru about 36 million years ago, and they also discovered fossilized feathers that show back then, the flightless bird was a more motley mix of reddish-brown and gray. Full Story Top Could 'Goldilocks' planet be just right for life? Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:17 am PDT AP - Astronomers say they have for the first time spotted a planet beyond our own in what is sometimes called the Goldilocks zone for life: Not too hot, not too cold. Juuuust right. Full Story Top Stress Brings Out the Difference in Male, Female Brains Fri, 1 Oct 2010 05:38 pm PDT LiveScience.com - Think your anger is as plain as the scowl on your face? If you're talking to a stressed-out man, that may not be the case. Full Story Top S.Korea, S.Africa to sign nuclear power deal: report Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:13 pm PDT AFP - South Korea will sign an agreement with South Africa in the coming week to design and build nuclear power plants in the African country, it was reported Saturday. Full Story Top Mexico has no plans to sue over oil spill, for now: official Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:09 pm PDT AFP - Mexico's federal government said Friday it does not plan, for now, to join legal complaints by two of its states to obtain payments over the catastrophic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that began over five months ago. Full Story Top Newest Mars Rover Gets Its Arm and Wheels in Shape Fri, 1 Oct 2010 04:00 pm PDT SPACE.com - NASA's next-generation Mars rover is limbering up before its 2011 launch, flexing its new robotic arm and driving up and down ramps. Full Story Top Hundreds of Genes May Influence Your Height Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:47 pm PDT HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Height is determined not by a single "short" or "tall" gene but by many genes working in concert, says an international team of scientists that has identified hundreds of height-influencing genes. Full Story Top Study shows progress with stem cell alternative Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:06 am PDT AP - Scientists reported more progress Thursday with a method of creating stem cells without using embryos. Full Story Top Bill would exempt wolves from federal protection Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:48 pm PDT AP - U.S. senators from Wyoming, Idaho and Utah proposed legislation Thursday that would strip federal endangered species protections from wolves in the northern Rockies. Full Story Top Ancient penguins not so well dressed: scientists Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:26 am PDT AFP - A 36-million-year-old fossil of a penguin from Peru shows the bird had feathers that were reddish brown and gray, unlike the black-and-white tuxedo appearance of today's penguins, researchers reported. Full Story Top CA-CANADA Summary Fri, 1 Oct 2010 06:55 pm PDT Reuters - Canada's environment minster has formed a scientific panel to examine whether Alberta's oil sands projects are polluting the Athabasca River as charged by an influential water ecologist. Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Thursday the panel, led by a former United Nations Environment Program director, will advise him on the state of water research and monitoring being done in the oil sands region. Full Story Top The nation's weather Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:08 am PDT AP - The intense storm that brought historic rain to the Eastern Seaboard over the past several days was forecast to continue moving northeastward Friday. Full Story Top Comet and Earth to Have Rare Close Encounter Fri, 1 Oct 2010 01:45 pm PDT SPACE.com - Typically during the course of a year about a dozen comets will come within the range of amateur telescopes. Most quietly come and go with little fanfare, but during the upcoming weeks one rather small comet will be making an unusually close approach to the Earth. Full Story Top Genetic Glitch Tied to Disrupted Sperm Production Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:48 pm PDT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 30 (HealthDay News) -- The cause of male infertility often escapes experts, but scientists have found a genetic mutation that appears to disrupt sperm production. Full Story Top BP pledges Gulf of Mexico oil fields to spill fund Fri, 1 Oct 2010 01:52 pm PDT Reuters - BP, which faces U.S. opposition to drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, named fields there that it will use to help finance its $20 billion fund for victims of the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Full Story Top NOAA opens more Gulf waters to fishing after spill Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:59 am PDT Reuters - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Friday that it had reopened 5,628 square miles of Gulf waters off eastern Louisiana to recreational and commercial fishing. Full Story Top

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