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Israel stunned by Hawking snub

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:03:00 -0400

It is an event "of cosmic proportions", said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated by the Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor, on May 8. Hawking is a world-renowned cosmologist and physicist. His scientific work had ...

Missiles not meteorites on US-Russia agenda

Sat, 25 May 2013 23:20:01 -0400

The US plans to collaborate with Russia on missile issues and Afghanistan, but not planetary defence from space threats, a US diplomat said. Building a joint asteroid defence system was not a "real proposal" until the project has funding, which is not on the cards with either country, said US Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Rose Gottemoeller. The meteorite ...

Theres space sex in Gravity jokes Sandra Bullock

Sat, 25 May 2013 18:50:02 -0400

Actress Sandra Bullock has joked how her upcoming thriller film "Gravity" has a lot of "space sex", which is slower than real life. "Oh my gosh, there's so much space sex in this film," accesshollywood.com quoted her as saying. "It's a lot slower than in real life because of the whole zero gravity thing. But it takes us a good 45 minutes to actually get from beginning to end, so (the audience) ...

Wireless signals can stunt plant growth

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:40:01 -0400

A Danish science experiment by a group of 9th-graders has gained worldwide interest, after they showed that wireless signals can stunt plant growth. Five girls from Hjallerup Skole, a primary education school in Denmark, began the experiment after noticing that when they slept with their cellphones near their heads overnight, they had trouble focusing the next day, according to Danish News site ...

Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:50:01 -0400

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or thematically. ...

Russia plans four spacecraft launches in 2014

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400

Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will make four launches next year from the Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform under the Sea Launch programme, an official said. Corporation president Vitaly Lopota said that after 2014, Energia will be able to make five or more launches a year. Next year's launches will be the first since one of Sea Launch's Zenit vehicles carrying an Intelsat-27 ...

Chinese VP stresses scientific technological innovation

Sat, 25 May 2013 23:16:02 -0400

Li said the country's innovation drive will require the wisdom of all its S&T workers, encouraging them to ensure that their own professional pursuits are in line with the requirements of the country's strategic ...

You dont have to be Einstein to figure out this formula

Sat, 25 May 2013 21:22:48 -0400

Indianapolis Motor Speedway? It's a crash course in competitive racing. "For somebody that spent all of his life driving on road courses where if you make a mistake you go through 30 feet of sand, then you hit a tire barrier and then a guardrail, it's a lot different," said ex-driver Eddie Cheever, now an ABC analyst. "You absorb the energy over a space of time. ... ...

Doug Ford denies drug-dealing allegations demands apology

Sat, 25 May 2013 21:16:02 -0400

Public opinion of Mayor Rob Ford all that counts TORONTO - Councillor Doug Ford wants an apology. The embattled Etobicoke councillor says media reports that he sold drugs as young man are an "absolute lie" motivated by a desire to politically attack both him and his brother Mayor Rob Ford. ...

Snow falls on Quebecs Eastern Townships

Sat, 25 May 2013 21:16:01 -0400

Residents of Quebec's Eastern Townships got a surprise when they saw snow in May. (MATHIEU DUGAS/QMI Agency) It certainly doesn't feel like mid-spring in Quebec's Eastern Townships. Snow fell in the region east of Montreal on Saturday and Environment Canada warned that the area could receive up to 15 cm of snow by Sunday morning. The average temperature for this time of year in ...

Opinion KbiOC Science and technology not panacea to all our problems

Sat, 25 May 2013 20:20:49 -0400

NAIROBI, KENYA: We, the members of the Kenya Biodiversity Coalition (KBiOC), representing over 60 member CSOs who work with over a million small scale farmers, wish to express our deep appreciation for your incisive and critically important article, Blind Faith in Science and Technology has eventually become our bane that was published in The Sunday Standard of May 11, ...

Mars hit by space rocks 200 times a year

Sat, 25 May 2013 20:16:24 -0400

One of many fresh impact craters spotted by the UA-led HiRISE camera, orbiting the Red Planet on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter since ...

New light cast on dark matter

Sat, 25 May 2013 19:29:08 -0400

Mountain secrets: deep beneath the Gran Sasso massif in Italy, the Xenon experiments may soon reveal the truth about the existence of dark matter. Photograph: ...

Two freight trains collide in Missouri bringing down overpass

Sat, 25 May 2013 17:06:49 -0400

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in rural Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when at least a dozen rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities ...

Leading scientist attacks university over outrageous IVF treatment patent

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:39:33 -0400

Fertility experts say the patent, which covers the duration of the first three cell cycles in a human embryo, encroaches on a naturally occurring phenomenon. Photograph: ...

Brampton Ont. familys bitter money dispute

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:31:17 -0400

Shanti Devi's son, Admon Devi-Biller, is left to comfort his mother and maintains that his cousin Boodhoo is a crook (STAN BEHAL/Toronto Sun). Shanti Devi’s health is a wreck and her personal life is hardly better. The single Brampton woman may lose her home after being financially ripped off for years by a nephew who also stole her identity. The 69-year-old retiree has lent her ...

Why penguins dumped flight for flippers

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:16:38 -0400

Robert Ricklefs at the University of Missouri at St Louis and his colleagues studied 41 murres in flight, they found the birds consumed 146 watts per kilogram of body weight. That is almost three times as much energy as the bar-headed goose, previously considered the least efficient flying ...

B vitamins may slow the advance of Alzheimers

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:16:37 -0400

We already know that a high level of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood is a risk factor for Alzheimer's, and that B vitamin supplements help reduce homocysteine levels. But it was unclear whether or not these supplements would slow the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to ...

Gliding robot mimics flying fish

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:16:34 -0400

IT MIMICS the leaping glides of flying fish and needs no external power. The Jump Glider could be the first in a new generation of robots, harnessing aerodynamic lift to travel further than it would if it simply hopped, and without using additional ...

Syrian opposition struggles to find unity as battle rages on

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:48:23 -0400

Demonstrators shout Islamic slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul May 24, 2013. (REUTERS/Murad ...

Roaches evolving to evade traps scientists say

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:19:30 -0400

(Fotolia) A strain of cockroaches in Europe has evolved to outsmart the sugar traps used to kill them, researchers have discovered. According to the BBC, American scientists found that the mutant cockroaches had a "reorganized" sense of taste, making them perceive the glucose used to coat poisoned bait not as sweet but rather as bitter. A North Carolina State University team tested ...

Rescue operation for Canadian in Australian Alps continues

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:19:26 -0400

Rescue Crew Officer Luke Ashford uses a thermal imaging camera to search for a missing Canadian man in the Snowy Mountains in Australia's Kosciuszko National Park (Westpac Life Saver Helicopter/QMI ...

French soldier stabbed while on patrol near Paris

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:12:12 -0400

PARIS (Reuters) - A French soldier patrolling a business neighborhood west of Paris was stabbed in the neck on Saturday by a man who quickly fled the scene and is being sought by police, President Francois Hollande ...

Self-aiming rifle turns novices into expert snipers

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:04:48 -0400

First time firing a gun? There's help at hand - a new "self-aiming" rifle can help even a novice hit the target at long range on the first go. But the technology has its critics, who see it as a serious threat to public ...

NDPs support of Wynnes budget is just a one-off Horwath

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:57:47 -0400

PETERBOROUGH -- The NDP’s support for the Liberals’ provincial budget is a one-off and not the start of an alliance designed to last through to the next scheduled election in October 2015, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Friday. In an interview with QMI Agency, Horwath said her party’s support for the budget "absolutely" does not equate to a coalition government. ...

New frontiers new risks How safe is space tourism

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:34:10 -0400

When choosing between two evils, Mae West quipped that she always picked the one she’d never tried before. Had the actress been ovulating at the time, however, a new study suggests she’d ...

Austrian overcomes fear of heights to aim for slackline record

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:29:43 -0400

FRANKFURT, May 25 - An Austrian man tip-toed along a line strung 185 meters (607 feet) off the ground in Frankfurt on Saturday, attempting to set a new world record for "highlining" despite his fear of ...

Stem-cell treatment restores sight to blind man

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:18:39 -0400

An experimental stem-cell treatment has restored the sight of a man blinded by the degeneration of his retinal cells. The man, who is taking part in a trial examining the safety of using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to reverse two common causes of blindness, can now see well enough to be allowed to ...

Thousands finish final mile of Boston Marathon

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:12:56 -0400

View Photo Associated Press/Winslow Townson - Rachel, left, and Pam Vingsness of Newton, Mass., hug each other after crossing the finish line as runners who were unable to finish the Boston Marathon on April 15 ...

Watch 3 planets form triangle in sky

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:45:46 -0400

If skies are clear, you'll be able to see Venus, Jupiter and Mercury appear to group together just above the western horizon shortly after sunset on Sunday, May 26th. It is an optical illusion; the planets won't be close. But the grouping -- which will resemble a triangle -- will be distinct, and there won't be anything quite like it again until January 2021. The best time to look ...

Group discusses safety of space tourism

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:21:34 -0400

The spacecraft SpaceShipTwo, center, carried by cargo aircraft WhiteKnightTwo, circles over Spaceport America Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 in Upham, N.M. Space-industry watchers expressed concern this week that the emerging space tourism sector is not being candid enough about the safety risks for travellers. (AP Photo/Matt ...

RBC Code of Conduct a welcome step Steelworkers

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:31:14 -0400

RBC denies it's replacing staff with foreign workers The United Steelworkers, Canada's largest union, congratulated the Royal Bank of Canada for promising not to hire foreign workers to replace Canadians and not to outsource jobs. RBC announced a Supplier Code of Conduct Friday, saying that "this principles-based Code sets out RBC's expectations of suppliers to ensure their ...

Pictures Ethiopia’s Extreme Salt Mines

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:29:14 -0400

The colorful and extreme Afar is also home to a valuable commodity: salt. For centuries the Afar people have mined rich salt deposits left behind from Red Sea floods in the ...

Travel Writer Paul Theroux’s Last Trip to Africa

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:29:13 -0400

Paul Theroux has been traversing continents--often crammed into an overcrowded bus or wedged into a packed train car. His international wanderings began as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi in 1963, and in 1975 he published his first travel ...

Syrian opposition resumes tough talks on unity key to peace push

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:23:50 -0400

George Sabra (L), a veteran Christian opposition figure and acting President of the Syrian National Coalition, speaks during the opening session of a meeting by members of the Syrian opposition in Istanbul May 23, ...

Russian pays $1.5M to go to space with DiCaprio at Cannes auction

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:15:46 -0400

Leonardo DiCaprio arrives at a photocall for the film "The Great Gatsby" during the 66th annual Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 15, 2013. UPI/David ...

The Anatomy of Violence by Adrian Raine – review

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:39:56 -0400

Is rape an act of hate? Why are you 100 times more likely to be killed on your birthday? Might a casual Mars Bar prompt you to commit murder? And why should you steer clear of men with long ring-fingers? These and other equally intriguing questions are posed here by Adrian ...

Creation Science Hall Of Fame Granted 501 Status

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:39:27 -0400

The Creation of Adam (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The adventures of Kent Hovind, a/k/a Doctor Dino, in Tax Court and other parts of the legal system have gotten me involved in following developments in Creation Science. Tax bloggers have all been breathlessly following the saga of the IRS Cincinnati gang that couldn't sort straight and the topic of who else the IRS might be picking on has ...

This week in science Perspective

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:21:43 -0400

A schematic of an iconic celestial object. To see it and a couple of its more exquisite cousin in full visible wavelength glory, click the image. My skeptical peers and I were buoyed to see the hundreds of millions of people on earth who do not profess belief in religion given some positive attention in the media this week thanks to the Pope's ...

Going inside the machinery and machinations of working in science

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:19:17 -0400

One of the great untold stories in science is the process of science itself. I don't mean stories about what scientists have discovered and what those discoveries tell us; we (and many others) cover those every day. I also don't mean stories about the pure joy of discovery and the excitement of finding out that everything you thought you understood was total nonsense. We cover that here ...

Suicide car bombing in Russias Dagestan injures 11

Sat, 25 May 2013 08:20:25 -0400

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew herself up in car near a police building in Russia's Dagestan region on Saturday, injuring 11 policemen and passers-by, Russian media ...

Tunisia Tunis Hosts Third Joint Commission Meeting On Science and Technology Co-Operation

Sat, 25 May 2013 08:15:08 -0400

Tunis - The third Tunisia-India Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Co-operation was held on Friday in Tunis. Partnership activities as part of the India-Africa Initiative, particularly the project of support to the Tunis-based Institut de Pasteur and the post-doctoral scholarships programme topped the agenda of the meeting, a Higher Education Ministry press release ...

British police arrest man after spy claim in soldier case

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:42:13 -0400

Reuters © A woman sits close to the scene of the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, in Woolwich, southeast London May 24, 2013. REUTERS/ Paul ...

Amphibian Populations Declining More Rapidly Than Previously Reported

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:38:16 -0400

The number of frogs, toads and salamanders in the US could be falling at an even more severe and widespread rate than previously believed, and ...

New Books Party books received this week | GrrlScientist

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:32:23 -0400

This week, I tell you about these books: The World's Rarest Birds by Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swash and Robert Still; The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett; The Uses of Pessimism & the Danger of False Hope by Roger Scruton; A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards; and The Water-Babies by Charles ...

Wired Space Photo of the Day Supermassive Black Hole Jets

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:18:35 -0400

In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...

Russia wants US to pay for astronaut flights to Space Station

Sat, 25 May 2013 06:39:37 -0400

Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Thursday.Roskomos spokesman Vyacheslav Davydenko told AFP that since the US space shuttles stopped supplying the jointly manned station in the wake of the February 2003 Columbia disaster Russia had been shouldering ...

Taiwans space programme offers tsunami satellite images to aid relief

Sat, 25 May 2013 06:39:36 -0400

Taiwan's national space programme offered Wednesday its satellite images of the damage caused by powerful tsunamis that ravaged Asia at the weekend to affected countries and aid groups for free.The National Space Programme Office (NSPO) normally charges 3,000 euros (4,080 dollars) for each photograph covering an area of 600 square kilometres (240 square miles), the office said.The images ...

Pan-African parliamentary science forum launched

Sat, 25 May 2013 06:10:39 -0400

An Africa-wide forum for parliamentarians which aims to give science, technology and innovation a more central role in the policy-making process was launched this ...

Canada revokes passport of doc accused in US medicare fraud

Sat, 25 May 2013 05:44:34 -0400

Dr. Jacques Roy is seen in a court room sketch in Dallas Texas Monday March 5, 2012. (CBSDFW.COM photo) MONTREAL - The Canadian government has quietly revoked the passport of a Quebec doctor accused of defrauding the U.S. Medicare system of $375 million - before he's even had a trial. QMI Agency has learned that Passport Canada rescinded the passport of Dr. Jacques Roy, the Quebec City-area ...

Weinsteins theory of everything is probably nothing

Sat, 25 May 2013 05:28:17 -0400

A discussion? Even if we'd been invited, that would have been hard without prior disclosure of the nitty-gritty mathematical details. Grand claims like Weinstein's would - in the normal course of science - be accompanied by a technical paper explaining their foundations. We could then take a deep breath and puzzle over whether they're consistent with the vast knowledge of nature ...

We can let fission fizzle out in a renewable world

Sat, 25 May 2013 05:28:14 -0400

Why would anyone choose to reinvest in a form of power that seems not to have been harnessed properly? At Chernobyl and Fukushima the world had two very close shaves. Not a very impressive safety record for a technology that has been pampered with billions of dollars of investment over 60 ...

Union of Concerned Scientists Northwest Airlines Asks Clear Channel to Pull Science Groups Anti-Nuclear-Weapons Ad in Minneapolis Airport

Sat, 25 May 2013 04:33:51 -0400

Billboard Calls for Sen. McCain to 'Get Serious' About Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons WASHINGTON - August 19 - Northwest, the official airline of the Republican National Convention, has taken on a new role of censor. Yesterday it asked Clear Channel Communications to remove a Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) anti-nuclear-weapons billboard in the Minneapolis airport ...

Center for Science in the Public Interest Obesity on the Kids Menus at Top Chains

Sat, 25 May 2013 04:33:31 -0400

CSPI Investigation Reveals Kids' Meals at Restaurants Usually Too High in Calories, and Good Options Hard to Find WASHINGTON - August 4 - Nearly every single possible combination of the children's meals at KFC, Taco Bell, Sonic, Jack in the Box, and Chick-fil-A is too high in calories, according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, which today released the ...

Brazil eyes closer space cooperation with Ukraine

Sat, 25 May 2013 04:29:58 -0400

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday expressed the wish to speed up her country's space cooperation with Ukraine. Speaking by phone earlier in the day, Rousseff and her Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych discussed bilateral cooperation, especially on the space sector. Brazil and Ukraine are partners in Alcantara Cyclon Space (ACS), a company which is preparing for the launch ...

China is gearing at full pelt for Space

Sat, 25 May 2013 04:29:50 -0400

The era of a space dominated by the U.S. and Russia is gone. Even when they have preserved their leadership in space exploration, they face a growing competition from other states, primarily from China. That conclusion is stated in a report prepared by Futron research company (USA). For five years Futron has been composing an index of competitive position of various participants of space ...

Sarah Brightman to become next space tourist

Sat, 25 May 2013 04:29:48 -0400

British crossover style performer Sarah Brightman announced here Wednesday her intention to become the next paying passenger to the International Space Station (ISS). "I am planning to become a space flight participant," Brightman told a press conference, after receiving the approval from a medical commission for training at Russia's Cosmonaut Training Center in July. Ahead of the ...

SpaceXs Dragon capsule docks with space station

Sat, 25 May 2013 04:29:47 -0400

SpaceX's unmanned Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday morning to make the first-ever commercial cargo delivery to the orbiting lab. According to U.S. space agency NASA, Dragon was captured by station crew using Canadarm2 robotic arm and installed to the station's docking port on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony node at 9:03 a.m. EDT (1303 ...

Tim Peake Next stop Mars | Aida Edemariam

Sat, 25 May 2013 04:21:10 -0400

European Astronaut Centre , where Peake is being trained, and where we meet, is in the far corner of a huge lot on the outskirts of Cologne, Germany, which is also home to the German Space Agency, where that future-past tension persists. The long, low prefab buildings, set among birch trees and wild flowers, feel like a throwback to the 60s. It has, however, been a valued part of the German ...

India to launch 58 space missions in next 5 years

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:11 -0400

India is planning to launch 58 space missions, including sending spacecraft to Moon and Mars, an exclusive satellite to keep a round-the-clock watch on the country and deploy hundreds of transponders in the next five years, reported Press Trust of India on Sunday. The India Space Research Organization also aims to deploy its own version of the Global Positioning System by putting into orbit a ...

Einstein letter on God to be auctioned on Internet

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:11 -0400

A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as a product of human weakness is being sold on eBay for a starting price of $3 million. The letter, handwritten in 1954, a year before Einstein's death, was addressed to philosopher Eric Gutkind. In it, Einstein discussed his views on religion, including calling "the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends ...

Space debris delays Japans satellite experiment

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:08 -0400

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday it has decided to postpone an experiment to release satellites from the International Space Station (ISS) due to approaching space debris. The experiment planned for the early hours of Friday is scheduled to launch five small satellites provided by the Fukuoka Institute of Technology and Tohoku University. The looming space debris may require ...

Einsteins brain is now interactive iPad app

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:06 -0400

In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 photo, Dr. Phillip Epstein, left, and Steve Landers of the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago talk about the new iPad app being released Tuesday, Sept. 25 that allows users to see Albert Einstein's brain as if they were looking through a microscope. ...

Japans Fukuoka to rent out roof space for solar panels

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:05 -0400

Japan's southwestern Fukuoka Prefecture is planning to lease roof space at schools for solar panels with an aim to widely develop solar power generation, local press reported Tuesday. The new plan came after a new feed-in-tariff scheme for renewable energy started in the country this summer and was the first of its kind pushed by a local government in southwestern Japan. According to the ...

China ASEAN launch science technology partner plan

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:04 -0400

China and the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have launched a plan that will see them cooperate in fields of science and technology. More than 300 entrepreneurs and scholars from China and ASEAN countries attended a launch ceremony on Saturday in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on the sidelines of the ninth China-ASEAN ...

Private capsule to launch cargo to space station on Oct. 7

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:01 -0400

A private capsule is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on a cargo mission on Oct. 7, U.S. space agency NASA announced Thursday. The SpaceX's robotic Dragon spacecraft is set to blast off atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:34 p.m. EDT on Oct. 7 (0034 Oct. 8 GMT). This will be the first of 12 contracted flights ...

Retired space shuttle Endeavor makes stopover in Houston

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:59 -0400

HOUSTON, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of space fans in the U.S. city of Houston cheered space shuttle Endeavor Wednesday as the United States' last retired shuttle circled overhead and landed in the city. Riding piggyback on a modified Boeing 747, Endeavor landed Wednesday morning in Houston's Ellington Field, after a five-hour flight from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. An ...

Russian Soyuz space capsule returns to earth

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:55 -0400

A Russian Soyuz capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe on Monday, delivering a trio of astronauts from a four-month stint on the International Space Station. The capsule, carrying US astronaut Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, parachuted through a blue sky and touched down in a cloud of dust as its soft landing engines ignited at 8.53 local time (2.53 GMT). ...

Space shuttle Endeavour stuck in Florida

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:55 -0400

This photo provided by NASA shows space shuttle Endeavour atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. ...

Appliance of science needs innovation

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:54 -0400

They say great minds think alike -- but that's the last thing Bai Chunli wants. As president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he says what the country's scientific community needs most is diversity, not uniformity. "When we say someone is trying to do things in an unorthodox way, it's usually derogatory," the 58-year-old chemist said. "But in terms of scientific ...

New Zealand seeks greater science collaboration with U.S.

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:51 -0400

WELLINGTON, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- A New Zealand government-led science delegation will head to the United States on Sunday to promote scientific collaboration between the two countries. Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce will lead the delegation to attend the New Zealand-United States Joint Commission on Science and Technology Cooperation which aims to promote collaboration in policy ...

Japans robotic cargo ship leaves space station

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:50 -0400

Astronauts on the International Space Station bade farewell to a Japanese cargo ship today (Sept. 12), ending Japan's latest delivery flight to the orbiting lab. Japan's unmanned H-2 Transfer Vehicle 3 (HTV-3) left the space station at 11:50 a.m. EDT (1350 GMT) after station astronauts used a robotic arm to detach the spacecraft from its docking port and set it free. The orbiting ...

Russian voices determination on mending problems in space industry

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:48 -0400

MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Russia must develop clear goals for its space program in order to pull its space industry out of the currently unhealthy state, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday. "Russia must formulate what it wants from space," Rogozin told the state-run Moscow radio, stressing a string of recent accidents with rocket launches were due to lack of clear ...

Pakistan school bus explosion kills 17 children

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:37:11 -0400

SLAMABAD – Seventeen Pakistani children burnt to death on Saturday when a gas cylinder on the bus taking them to school exploded, media said. Ten children were injured in the blaze on the outskirts of Gujrat, 100 miles (170 km) southeast of Islamabad, DawnNews said. Many vehicles in energy-starved Pakistan are powered by relatively cheap compressed natural gas and cylinder blasts are ...

Discovery Science Place CEO to be on Broadcast this week

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:22:45 -0400

Phil Lindsey, Discover Science Place CEO, will be interviewed this week on the Tyler Chamber Radio show.Discover Science Place is offering Summer Camps, where children can explore, design and create using cutting-edge technology and innovation. There is a different camp each week from June 24 through Aug. 16 and children in kindergarten through eighth grade can attend. Age of the Dinosaur, an ...

Air Force Telecoms Satellite Launches in US

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:33:32 -0400

MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - A Delta IV rocket successfully launched a Wideband Global SATCOM 5 satellite from Cape Canaveral on 20:27 EDT (4:27 Moscow time) Thursday, media reported.The US Air Force's satellite is headed for a geostationary orbit off the east coast of the United States and will take several months to reach it, Spaceflightnow.com said.The launch, conducted by Lockheed ...

Riots spread outside Swedish capital

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:22:49 -0400

A bystander checks the debris around a row of burnt cars in the suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm May 23, 2013. (REUTERS/Fredrik Sandberg/Scanpix) STOCKHOLM – A nearly week-long spate of rioting spread outside Stockholm on Friday but authorities said police reinforcements sent to the Swedish capital had reduced the violence there, even ...

Dog found hanging from vicious homemade trap on B.C. trail

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:22:45 -0400

A dog was caught in a vicious animal trap that consisted of a hunk of meat threaded through a series of five barbed hooks on the Baden Powell Trail in Vancouver on Thursday morning. (Facebook photo) Police in Vancouver have issued a public warning after a dog was hooked in a vicious animal trap on a hiking trail. A dog owner was walking her Labradoodle on the Baden Powell Trail around 10:30 ...

Conclusion of FTA talks creates vast space for deepening Sino-Swissties Premier Li

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:25:05 -0400

The conclusion of talks over a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Switzerland will create a vast space for further development of bilateral ties and is also conducive to the development of China-Europe relations, visiting Chinese Premier Li keqiang said here Friday.At a joint press conference with Swiss President Ueli Maurer, Li said he and the Swiss leader reached many important ...

Vicious dog severs Oshawa mans nose

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:15:49 -0400

Play video TORONTO - It hasn’t been a great start to the summer for a young Oshawa man, having had his nose chewed off by a vicious dog while protecting his girlfriend, and then thrown out of his apartment. It was last Saturday night, while kicking back on the front porch of the rooming house he lives in at 140 Brock St., that Jimmy Rogers, a 23-year-old unemployed construction worker, ...

Fillmore science educator is Ventura County Teacher of the Year

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:29:04 -0400

JOSEPH A. GARCIA/THE STAR Sierra High School science teacher Laura Todis (center) joins her students after being named the 2013 Ventura County Teacher of the ...

Vice Premier calls for scientific quake reconstruction

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:18:31 -0400

Reconstruction in the earthquake-affected zone in southwest China's Sichuan Province should be conducted in a scientific, orderly and efficient manner, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli has stressed.Zhang made the comments during a conference in Beijing on Friday afternoon, after he had accompanied President Xi Jinping earlier this week to visit the province's Lushan County, which was hit by a ...

Alberta trucker involved in Washington state bridge collapse

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:08:54 -0400

Local residents line the river banks to look at a span of highway bridge sitting in the Skagit River May 24, 2013 after collapsing near the town of Mt Vernon, Washington late Thursday. REUTERS/Cliff ...

Dead tots parents storm out of court after alleged drunk driver gets bail

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:08:50 -0400

Sage Morin is comforted by a supporter as she holds a picture of her son Geo Mounsef outside the Law Courts, in Edmonton, Alta. on Friday May 24, 2013. Geo, 2, was killed after an SUV plowed into the patio at Ric's Grill, 14229 - 23 Ave., where he was sitting with his family May 19, 2013. Richard Suter was granted bail in the incident Friday. David Bloom/Edmonton Sun/QMI ...

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Racially Profiled Latinos Federal Judge Rules

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:00:53 -0400

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks with a reporter outside city jail in this May 3, 2010, file photo. (PAUL J. ...

NDP excited to grill Harper next week

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:44:18 -0400

Senator Mike Duffy arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa May 23, 2013. Duffy resigned from the Conservative caucus last week amid an expenses scandal. REUTERS/Chris ...

Rocket lifts off with U.S. military communications satellite

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:29:28 -0400

Fri May 24, 2013 9:29pm EDT * Spacecraft to be used for broadband communications * 2nd flight for United Launch Alliance in nine days * Five more satellites in network to follow By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. May 24 (Reuters) - An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday to put a multi-use, broadband communications satellite into orbit for the U.S. ...

Communications satellite launched into space

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:13:30 -0400

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening. The satellite was the fifth Wideband Global satcom spacecraft to be launched.The satellite, which is being sent into an orbit that follows the earth's rotation 22,000 miles above the equator, will serve ...

Hands-free devices not necessarily safer Study

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:22 -0400

Mayank Rehani demonstrates the driving simulator used to study the impact of hands-free distraction on drivers at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Centre in Edmonton on May 24, 2013. Dave Lazzarino/Edmonton Sun/QMI Agency EDMONTON -- Distracted driving laws enacted in most of Canada means drivers have had to keep their cell phones out of their hands and their eyes on the road. But a recent study by ...

Man beat ex with toilet lid torched suite

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:22 -0400

Zachary Holland. (File) EDMONTON - An Edmonton man who used a toilet tank lid to attack a transsexual before torching her suite and dragged his girlfriend from a car was sentenced to 15 years Thursday. Zachary Holland, 26, pleaded guilty to several charges including arson causing bodily harm, two counts of aggravated assault, kidnapping and uttering death threats. Provincial Court Judge James ...

Space date with Leo DiCaprio auctions for $1.5 million

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:50:05 -0400

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio attends the "The Great Gatsby" world premiere at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on May 1, 2013, in New ...

3-D printer going to space station in 2014

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:59:33 -0400

News from the biggest beat in the cosmos, going out 13.7 billion light-years and taking in everything from astronomy to zoology. Join the adventure ...

Tempura-battered tarantula on menu at California bug fest

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:40:55 -0400

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hungry? How about tempura-battered fried Tarantula for an appetizer? They're frozen then defrosted before bug chef David George Gordon cuts off the abdomen, singes off hairs with a lighter and dunks the remaining spider body into ...

DiCaprio Space Trip Nets $1.5M

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:33:25 -0400

(Image Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) At a Cannes Film Festival charity auction as star-studded as one of the Great Gatsby’s parties, a pitch rang out that sounded like a sci-fi sequel to ';Catch Me If You Can.'; ';How would you like to go to space with Leonardo DiCaprio?'; said an auctioneer, the actress Nicole Kidman. ';I can’t believe he ...

Space station astronauts snap amazing photos of Alaskan volcanic eruption

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:25:32 -0400

Pavlof Volcano has been erupting for over a week, releasing a humongous plume of ash, steam, and smoke visible from the International Space Station. The eruption has quieted down, but seismic data suggests that it's not ...

How 3D Printers Could Reinvent NASA Space Food

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:53:31 -0400

NASA officials confirmed this week that the space agency awarded $125,000 to the Austin, Texas-based company Systems and Materials Research Consultancy (SMRC) to study how to make nutritious and ...

How One Russian Got A Trip To Outer Space With Leo DiCaprio

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:45:27 -0400

Leonardo DiCaprio. Off to space next year. A wealthy Russian oligarch living in Monaco spent over a million dollars to sit -- and then float -- alongside him while they orbit the planet in a Virgin Galactic space ship. This is one easy how-to article. How do you get to go into outerspace with an A-lister, in this case Leonardo DiCaprio? Well, first you have to be go to the Cannes Film Festival ...

3D Printer Headed to Space Station in 2014

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:32:25 -0400

A 3D printer is slated to arrive at the International Space Station next year, where it will crank out the first parts ever manufactured off Earth. The company Made in Space is partnering with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on ...

Planetary alignment peaks with celestial show this weekend

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:31:51 -0400

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in the sky this month, will be joined by tiny Mercury for a rare celestial show this ...

Lunar Eclipse 2013 Tonights Sky Show To Be Webcast By SLOOH Space Camera

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:28:55 -0400

By: Tariq Malik Published: 05/24/2013 12:46 PM EDT on SPACE.com The moon will take the smallest of dips through the Earth's shadow in a minor eclipse tonight (May 24) and you can watch the lunar event live online via a webcast. ...

Arizona jury foreman says believed Jodi Arias was abused

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:27:57 -0400

Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, May 23, ...