Daily News Alert | Wednesday, March 2, 2011 12:03 AM PST |
Space station gets much-needed storage room
Tue, 1 Mar 2011 03:53 pm PST
 AP - The International Space Station got a sorely needed storage room Tuesday, a 21-foot-long supply closet packed with goods and a humanoid robot that will remain boxed up for another two months. Full Story | Top |
Primitive Scavenger Fish Eats Using Its Skin
Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:15 pm PST
LiveScience.com - Hagfish are simple, tubelike scavengers with gruesome feeding habits: When the ugly predator encounters a carcass on the seafloor, it burrows into the body cavity of the dead or dying animal. There it eats, not only with its mouth, but also with its skin and gills. Full Story | Top |
Despite overhaul, gas wastewater still a problem
Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:41 pm PST
 AP - Pennsylvania's natural gas drillers are still flushing vast quantities of contaminated wastewater into rivers that supply drinking water, despite major progress by the industry over the past year in curtailing the practice. Full Story | Top |
Libya Accused of Jamming Satellite Signals
Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:45 pm PST
SPACE.com - PARIS — Mobile satellite services operator Thuraya Telecommunications says it has "conclusive evidence" that Libya, one of its shareholders, is the source of "unlawful and intentional jamming" of Thuraya signals in Libya and surrounding areas over the past week. Full Story | Top |
Gene Therapy Against HIV Not a Proven Cure, Experts Say
Tue, 1 Mar 2011 08:48 pm PST
HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- Experts are reacting with cautious optimism to the announcement Monday that researchers reconfigured immune cells so that they became resistant to HIV in six patients infected with the virus. Full Story | Top |
Schwarzenegger: It's Time to Terminate Skepticism on Climate Change
Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:15 pm PST
 LiveScience.com - WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a room full of scientists, and with a slate of Nobel Prize winners and bureaucrats scheduled to speak, it took a movie star to demand that everyone stop playing make-believe. Giving the keynote address at the APRA-E Energy Innovation Summit here today (March 1), Arnold Schwarzenegger issued forth a call to end the false debate over climate science, to stop assuming China will provide new green tech cheaper and faster than the United States, and to stop pretending that global warming won't affect people for decades. Full Story | Top |
U.S. Government Medical Experiments of the Recent Past Revealed
Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:35 pm PST
ContributorNetwork - Revelations of medical experiments dating from the 1920s to the 1960s conducted by the U.S. government medical community and scientific researchers came to light Sunday in an article by Associated Press reporter Mike Stobbe. The history of these experiments is the topic of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, convened by President Barack Obama. Full Story | Top |
Rain and snowmelt trigger Midwest flooding
Tue, 1 Mar 2011 10:49 am PST
Reuters - Rivers and streams swollen by rain and melting snow spilled flood waters into communities across Illinois, Indiana and Ohio on Tuesday, killing one woman whose vehicle was swept into a river. Full Story | Top |
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