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Today's Science News: Antimatter detector to catch last shuttle to space Experts: Exoplanet could be smallest ever found New microbe discovered eating oil spill in Gulf What's Wildcat Mining? BP scraps plans to drill in Arctic due to Gulf spill: report U.S. spill panel question drilling policy NASA to Reveal Big News From Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Today Obama to Appeal Stem Cell Ruling Researchers monitoring Hawaii coral for bleaching Russia's Putin shoots darts at gray whale Fossilized Creek Beds Offer Up Ancient Climate Change Clues Micro-frog found in search for world's lost amphibians The nation's weather You Can Catch a Crescent Venus In Telescopes Stem-Cell Ruling Causes Gloom, Anxiety Among Scientists Quotebox: U.S. spill panel probes offshore drilling Tropical Storm Earl forms in eastern Atlantic Antimatter detector to catch last shuttle to space Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:14 am PDT AP - The U.S. Air Force took charge Wednesday of a $2 billion antimatter detector destined to catch the last scheduled space shuttle flight in February 2011. Full Story Top Experts: Exoplanet could be smallest ever found Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:47 pm PDT AP - Scientists say they've identified a sun-like star with as many as seven different planets — including one that might be the smallest ever found outside the solar system. Full Story Top New microbe discovered eating oil spill in Gulf Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:32 am PDT AP - The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has revealed a previously unknown type of oil-eating bacteria, which is suddenly flourishing. Full Story Top What's Wildcat Mining? Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:49 pm PDT LiveScience.com - The recent accident in Chile that trapped 33 miners underground for almost three weeks and counting has drawn attention to the dangers of wildcat mining, or the operation of illegal mines. Full Story Top BP scraps plans to drill in Arctic due to Gulf spill: report Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:38 pm PDT AFP - BP has scrapped plans to drill in the Arctic, where a new oil rush is expected, amid fears such a move would be "political madness" after the Gulf oil spill, Britain's Guardian daily said Thursday. Full Story Top U.S. spill panel question drilling policy Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:09 pm PDT Reuters - The BP oil spill was a massive "failure" in government oversight and administrations should be forced to consult with experts in the field before making expansive drilling policy, top officials of the White House's oil spill commission said on Wednesday. Full Story Top NASA to Reveal Big News From Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Today Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:01 pm PDT SPACE.com - NASA is expected to make a major announcement today on the progress of its Kepler spacecraft, which has been staring at one patch of space for evidence of other worlds. Full Story Top Obama to Appeal Stem Cell Ruling Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:48 pm PDT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. scientists reacted with dismay to Monday's decision by a U.S. judge to halt any expansion of stem cell research using federal funds. Full Story Top Researchers monitoring Hawaii coral for bleaching Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:32 pm PDT AP - Scientists plan to monitor corals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands next month for signs of bleaching that could harm the reefs. Full Story Top Russia's Putin shoots darts at gray whale Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:22 am PDT AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has added gray whales to the list of endangered species he has personally helped Russian scientists track. Full Story Top Fossilized Creek Beds Offer Up Ancient Climate Change Clues Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:42 am PDT LiveScience.com - An ancient, fossilized landscape is slowly rising up from the fields of sugar beets and barley in England's Fens, an agricultural hub near the country's central eastern coast. Full Story Top Micro-frog found in search for world's lost amphibians Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:32 pm PDT Y! Green - Pea-sized frog is the old world's smallest Full Story Top The nation's weather Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:01 am PDT AP - The cold front that pounded through the Central U.S. Tuesday was forecast to continue advancing eastward and slowly weaken Wednesday. Full Story Top You Can Catch a Crescent Venus In Telescopes Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:32 pm PDT SPACE.com - If you look low in the western sky just after sunset, you will see three planets in an irregular row: from left to right, Venus, Mars and Saturn. Venus is the brightest of the three and, with the use of a telescope or binoculars, appears as a narrowing crescent. Full Story Top Stem-Cell Ruling Causes Gloom, Anxiety Among Scientists Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:00 pm PDT Time.com - Stem-cell scientists still reeling from a judge's ruling that their life's work violates federal law received little reassurance about their job security from the nation's largest funder of these studies Full Story Top Quotebox: U.S. spill panel probes offshore drilling Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:36 pm PDT Reuters - The White House oil spill commission on Wednesday examined offshore drilling policies and reviewed regulatory practices. Full Story Top Tropical Storm Earl forms in eastern Atlantic Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:03 pm PDT Reuters - Tropical Depression Seven in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean strengthened into Tropical Storm Earl late Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. Full Story Top

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