Science News
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NASA Selects Eight New Astronaut Candidates
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:10AM June 18, 2013 CommentThe eight astronaut candidates will begin training in August.
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'Dead zones' predicted for Gulf, Chesapeake Bay
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:36PM June 18, 2013 CommentNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Scientists are predicting a big summer "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, while it will be smaller than average in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Scientists discuss new photo-taking satellite
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:04PM June 18, 2013 CommentSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Nearly 120 scientists and engineers from around the world are meeting in South Dakota this week to discuss operational and technical issues with collecting images from the Landsat 8 satellite.
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Kenneth Wilson, Nobel winner for physics, dies
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:36PM June 18, 2013 CommentSACO, Maine (AP) — A physics professor who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions has died in Maine at age 77.
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Extensive ancient city unearthed by airborne laser
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:23PM June 17, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — New airborne laser scanning data has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating an entire bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples complex.
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Official: Solar plane to help energy use on ground
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:26PM June 17, 2013 CommentCHANTILLY, Va. (AP) — The nation's energy secretary says a solar-powered plane that landed outside Washington early Sunday will one day offer a payoff for people on the ground.
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Solar-powered plane lands near Washington
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:17PM June 17, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A solar-powered plane nearing the close of a cross-continental journey landed at Dulles International Airport outside the nation's capital early Sunday, only one short leg to New York remaining on a voyage that opened in May.
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NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:10AM June 17, 2013 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years.
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To ease shortage of organs, grow them in a lab?
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:32AM June 17, 2013 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery.
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AP IMPACT: Bites derided as unreliable in court
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:57AM June 16, 2013 CommentAt least 24 men convicted or charged with murder or rape based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after spending more than a decade in prison. Now a judge's ruling later this month in New York could help end the practice for good.
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Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:50AM June 16, 2013 CommentBONN, Germany (AP) — From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming.
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Tereshkova marks 50 years of her historic flight
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:58PM June 14, 2013 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — It was another Soviet first in space 50 years ago — putting a woman in orbit. And 26-year old Valentina Tereshkova carried her part with grace, shouting "Take off your hat, sky, I'm coming!" as she blasted off.
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Smithsonian Opens Genetics Exhibit
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:53AM June 14, 2013 CommentThe exhibit opens today at the National History Museum following two major Supreme Court decisions.
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Court ruling may open up breast cancer gene tests
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:59PM June 13, 2013 CommentA ruling by the Supreme Court that human genes can't be patented is expected to increase access and drop the cost for tests for gene mutations that greatly raise the risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer.
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Supreme Court: Human Genes Can't Be Patented
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:52PM June 13, 2013 CommentNIH official says the decision makes the field of diagnostics 'much more open.'
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Cuba girds for climate change by reclaiming coasts
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:49PM June 12, 2013 CommentCAYO COCO, Cuba (AP) — After Cuban scientists studied the effects of climate change on this island's 3,500 miles (5,630 kilometers) of coastline, their discoveries were so alarming that officials didn't share the results with the public to avoid causing panic.
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Speedy cheetahs impress even more with agility
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:33PM June 12, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have long known that cheetahs are blazingly fast. Now new research shows it's their acceleration and nimble zigzagging that really leaves the rest of the animal world in the dust.
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James Cameron's Next Deepsea Mission: Get Congress to Pay Attention to the Ocean
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:22PM June 11, 2013 CommentThe film director showed off his Challenger Deep submarine in Washington, D.C. Tuesday.
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Mayor to discuss prepping NYC for warming world
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:34AM June 11, 2013 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — The projections paint an unsettling picture of New York's future: A city where by the 2050s, 800,000 people could be living in a flood zone that would cover a quarter of the land, and there are as many 90-degree days as is now normal for Birmingham, Ala.
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China marks decade of human spaceflight
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:47AM June 10, 2013 CommentBEIJING (AP) — China's astronauts have braved the tension of docking with a space station and performed delicate tasks outside their orbiting capsule, but now face a more down-to-Earth job that is perhaps equally challenging: Talking to young people about science.
