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Today's Science News: Obama promotes clean energy; GOP hits Dem spending Psychiatric experts assess parental alienation Giant penguins with no tux? Fossil feathers say so Veterans with PTSD Suffer More Medical Illnesses China, Greece, to set up centre to cut ship CO2 emissions Australia set for 'rare earths' boom Did UFOs Disarm Nuclear Weapons? And If So, Why? Hundreds of Genes May Influence Your Height Could 'Goldilocks' planet be just right for life? China experts say panda suffocated to death in Japan: report Ancient penguins not so well dressed: scientists Osama bin Laden softens tone, but to what end? The nation's weather Spacesuit Gloves Can Make Astronauts' Fingernails Fall Off Genetic Glitch Tied to Disrupted Sperm Production Official known for criticizing BP, feds re-elected Tropical Storm Nicole kills nine in Jamaica Obama promotes clean energy; GOP hits Dem spending Sat, 2 Oct 2010 08:04 pm PDT AP - Wind, solar and other clean energy technologies produce jobs and are essential for the country's environment and economy, President Barack Obama said in promoting his administration's efforts. Full Story Top 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 Veterans with PTSD Suffer More Medical Illnesses Sat, 2 Oct 2010 05:01 pm PDT LiveScience.com - Military veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with troubled mental health may also suffer the burden of more medical illnesses, according to a sweeping study. Full Story Top China, Greece, to set up centre to cut ship CO2 emissions Sat, 2 Oct 2010 02:45 pm PDT AFP - China and Greece will set up a centre to look at ways of saving energy and cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the merchant navy, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Saturday. Full Story Top Australia set for 'rare earths' boom Sat, 2 Oct 2010 09:58 pm PDT AFP - Rare earths, the little-known elements behind everything from iPods to hybrid cars and eco-friendly light bulbs, are set to boom in Australia thanks to an export clampdown by China, experts say. Full Story Top Did UFOs Disarm Nuclear Weapons? And If So, Why? Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:50 am PDT LiveScience.com - At an unusual press conference recently held in Washington, D.C., a UFO author and a half-dozen or so former U.S. military airmen asserted that "The U.S. Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it." They claim that since 1948, extraterrestrials in spaceships have not only been visiting Earth but hovering over British and American nuclear missile sites and temporarily deactivating the weapons. 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 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 China experts say panda suffocated to death in Japan: report Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:47 am PDT AFP - Chinese experts sent to Japan to investigate the death of a giant panda on loan to a zoo have determined that the animal died of asphyxiation, state media reported Saturday. 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 Osama bin Laden softens tone, but to what end? Sat, 2 Oct 2010 01:01 pm PDT AP - Softening his tone, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden issued a humanitarian appeal on Saturday urging Muslim governments to do more to help Pakistan's flood victims and expressing worry about climate change. It was his second purported audiotape in as many days. Full Story Top The nation's weather Sat, 2 Oct 2010 02:30 am PDT AP - A strengthening trough of low pressure was expected to move through the eastern part of the United States Saturday, although little moisture was anticipated with it. Full Story Top Spacesuit Gloves Can Make Astronauts' Fingernails Fall Off Sat, 2 Oct 2010 05:45 am PDT SPACE.com - Life as an astronaut involves risks. But who knew those risks come even from wearing spacesuit gloves? 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 Official known for criticizing BP, feds re-elected Sat, 2 Oct 2010 08:24 pm PDT AP - A local official who emerged as a leading critic of efforts to clean up the oil spilled from BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico has easily won re-election as president of his coastal Louisiana parish. Full Story Top Tropical Storm Nicole kills nine in Jamaica Sat, 2 Oct 2010 03:43 am PDT Reuters - Short-lived Tropical Storm Nicole triggered flash flooding that killed at least nine people in Jamaica and dumped heavy rain on Florida, Cuba, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas on Wednesday. Full Story Top

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