• Op-Ed Gamma Rays and the Grand Canyon

  denied their motion to overturn the Salazar decision on constitutional grounds. A tactical, piecemeal circumvention of the ban has had better luck in the bureaucracy of the U.S. Forest Service. The USFS, despite the anti-mining intent of their boss President Obama, authorized a Canadian company to dig uranium six miles from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. ...

• Volcanic Activity Increases On Alaskas Mount Pavlof

  Alaska's Pavlof Volcano, which roared back to life on May 13, continues to send ash and steam nearly 20,000 feet into the air, just below the threshold that experts deem becomes a threat to air traffic in the region. Over the weekend, Pavlof also began spewing lava hundreds of feet into the air. The 8,262-foot-high Pavlof, which is located about 625 miles southeast of Anchorage along ...

• Big Story Weather – May 20 2013

  Severe weather was the big news this past weekend. There were many tornadoes reported from Texas to Iowa and back into the Northern Plains. The tornadoes did plenty of damage and there were even some fatalities reported. These storms fired up each and every day over the weekend. The Plains also dealt with strong winds and large ...

• Costa Rican paper alleges Canadian was victim of a hit

  Brad Deering (Facebook photo) A Costa Rican newspaper says a Canadian man who was killed in that country last week was the victim of a targeted attack. The Costa Rican Times says Brad Deering, a 42-year-old native of Vancouver, B.C. and a Costa Rican resident, was killed Thursday by three gunmen who police believe were attempting to rob his home in a gated community in San Jose. The paper says ...

• Space trilogy episode 3 Star Wars Weekends slideshow

  The history of crowd control reached a milestone as Boba Fett stood guard at the Sorcerer's Hat Stage. After my recent adventures in space history and space history-in-the-making, it's only fitting that I spend the third and final episode in this shameless series of work-related outings immersed in space fantasy. And seeing as how it's billed as a "trilogy," why don't I ...

• Are mental illnesses such as PMS and depression culturally determined | Corrinne Burns

  DSM 5 - was published over the weekend. Produced by the American Psychiatric Association, it describes the symptoms of a vast range of mental illnesses and is intended as a guide to diagnosis.Why should we in the UK care? Simple: the political dominance of the US means that as soon as a mental disorder is named in the DSM, that disorder becomes valid in the eyes of many.But not everyone is a ...

• Major Tim Peake stole my space age daydream | Suzanne Moore

  David Willetts, the science minister, said he hoped Tim Peake, pictured above at the Science Museum, would inspire children to become the next generation of scientists and engineers Photograph: Suzanne ...

• Google and NASA team up to use quantum computer

  Are quantum computers about to revolutionise our lives? You might think so now that Google has bought one from the only organisation that sells them, D-Wave of Burnaby, Canada. However, questions remain over just how D-Wave's quantum computers work and whether they would beat ordinary computers in like-on-like ...

• UKs first official astronaut Tim Peake absolutely delighted to get ISS mission

  Former helicopter pilot Tim Peake, who will carry out experiments and be eligible for spacewalks during his ISS mission. Photograph: Suzanne ...

• Mental disorders affect 1 in 5 US children each year

  As many as one in five children aged 3 to 17 years old experiences a mental health disorder each year, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

• Kepler or not well find life in space

  >Editor's note: Meg Urry is the Israel Munson professor of physics and astronomy and chairwoman of the department of physics at Yale University, where she is the director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.(CNN) -- On Wednesday, NASA officials announced a serious problem with the Kepler satellite, the world's most successful planet-finding machine. Since its launch four years ...

• Alien Big Apple Artist Envisions NYC on Other Planets

  New York City seems alien enough to many of its visitors, but imagine how strange it would look if whisked away to another planet. A new art project does just that, transplanting the Big Apple to ...

• How NYC Would Look on Other Planets

  Saturn's atmosphere is similar to that of Jupiter. Again, NYC is shown at about 62 miles above a layer of liquid hydrogen and helium, amid clouds of ammonia ice with occasional thunderstorms. As with Jupiter, atmospheric gases are highly reducing and would slowly dissolve any metal oxide surface, like the green patina that covers the Statue of ...

• Researchers Discover Evidence For How Life May Have Begun

  One of the key elements to understanding the proliferation of life on Earth is modeling how electron transfer - the passage of an electron from one element to another - can be catalyzed. But the environmental conditions on Earth some 3 billion years ago were much different than they are today. For one, there was a distinct lack of molecular oxygen in the atmosphere, because it is readily ...

• Ice Age Evidence Sheds Light On Modern-Day Tropical Climate Change Simulations

  redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are looking to events of the past to better understand how rainfall patterns across the Indo-Pacific warm pool - the massive pool of warm water stretching along the equator from Africa to the western Pacific Ocean - will change due ...

• Briton undaunted by space mission

  20 May 2013 A former Army test pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS) - and says it will be less dangerous than his old ...

• Over the rainbow Patchwork view of Kansas from space

  (Image: USGS/ESA) "I'VE a feeling we're not in Kansas any more." Indeed not, we are 700 kilometres above Kansas, looking down from the venerable Landsat 5 satellite. What you can see is how huge swathes of the state have been given over to agriculture. It ain't known as the nation's breadbasket for ...

• Ihsanoglu analyses the current trends in Science Technology and Innovation in the Muslim World.

  WAM ABU DHABI, 20th May, 2013 (WAM) -- The Secretary General of the OIC, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has cautioned that the future of science in the OIC Member States would depend on their ability to address the practical challenges of scientific development and take the right policy decisions to fully exploit technology's development potential. In a public lecture organized by the New York ...

• Dan Dare Dreams Big British Astronaut Tim Peake To Visit Space Station in 2015

  UK Space Agency . (Yes, apparently we have one - who knew?). If the mission goes ahead as planned, Peake will be the first Briton to fly in space without a private contract or American Citizenship. So, for the only country to have given up ...

• Scientific Research and the European Union | Jon Butterworth | Life Physics

  CERN Council European Strategy Group (our draft strategy will hopefully be adopted in Brussels next week). So we both had things to say about each others topic.I know from experience that applying for, and spending, EU research funds used to be very bureaucratic and arguably not worth the effort. Most initiatives were not primarily targetted at research excellence, but at training, or at ...

• Taiwans space programme offers tsunami satellite images to aid relief

  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 ...

• Russia wants US to pay for astronaut flights to Space Station

  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 ...

• Look inside space by Rob Lloyd Jones | Book Review | GrrlScientist

  This well-constructed and engaging "flap book" is interesting, accurate and highly interactive -- a wonderful introduction to space for young ...

• Consciousness Watching your mind in action

  Consciousness: The what, why and how " THE first time I saw my father in hospital after his stroke, I was disturbed to find that my strong and confident dad had been replaced by someone confused and childlike. Besides being concerned about whether or not he would recover, I was struck by the profound metaphysical implications of what had just happened. At the time I was a few weeks away ...

• Pan-African parliamentary science forum launched

  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 ...

• Rod Stewart over the moon at chart success off new album Time

  .Speaking at a rehearsal studio in west London today, Stewart said the secret of the record's success was that it drew on his long experience of life."I'm over the moon, absolutely over the moon. It's a long time in between but it's always worth waiting for," he said"I've lived a wonderful life and when I was putting the book together it inspired many of ...

• Russian retrieves space capsule most creatures die

  Russian space officials announced that a capsule containing mice and lizards has returned to Earth, but most of them died during their time in space, according to media reports Monday. The Bion-M capsule, carrying 45 mice, 15 newts, snails, lizards, plants, microflora, and eight gerbils, landed softly in the Orenburg Region, about 1,200 km southeast of Moscow, but majority of the mice and newts ...

• Briton given space station mission

  20 May 2013 A former helicopter pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), it has been ...

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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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 ...

• SpaceXs Dragon capsule docks with space station

  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 ...

• FBI agents die in training exercise

  Quantico, Va. (Photo courtesy FBI) Two FBI special agents were killed during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va., on Friday, the agency said in a statement released Sunday. Special agents Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, 40, were part of the elite Hostage Rescue Team, which is part of the Critical Incident Response Group, and is based in Quantico, Va. Details of ...

• Separating the recent from the ancient past

  dinosaurs , it's only when the latter became extinct that they really expanded and dominated. So we would not expect to find for example, the skull of an ungulate alongside bits of non-avian dinosaur bones. So when these claims are made, do they challenge accepted theory of the temporal distributions of life on earth or is something else at work? While certainly we would not expect such ...

• Einstein letter on God to be auctioned on Internet

  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 ...

• India to launch 58 space missions in next 5 years

  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 ...

• Space debris delays Japans satellite experiment

  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 ...

• Einsteins brain is now interactive iPad app

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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). ...

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