Science News
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New study links current events to climate change
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:51PM August 04, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The relentless, weather-gone-crazy type of heat that has blistered the United States and other parts of the world in recent years is so rare that it can't be anything but man-made global warming, says a new statistical analysis from a top government scientist.
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NASA spacecraft speeding toward a landing on Mars
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:40PM August 04, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — After an 8 1/2-month voyage through space, NASA's souped-up Mars spacecraft zoomed toward the red planet for what the agency hopes will be an epic touchdown.
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New Mars rover to land in intriguing giant crater
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:46PM August 04, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The latest Mars destination is a giant crater near the equator with an odd feature: a mountain rising from the crater floor.
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A peek at what NASA's new rover packed for Mars
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:09AM August 04, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — If you were packing for Mars, what would you bring?
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Delay in scientific ghost town stirs skepticism
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:14PM August 03, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Pegasus Global Holdings' surprise announcement that it was pulling out of plans to build a $1 billion scientific ghost town in eastern New Mexico is stirring skepticism of the private firm's grandiose plans for transforming 15 square miles of this largely rural state into a next-generation research center.
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Anxiety over rover's Hollywood-style Mars landing
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:30PM August 03, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Seven minutes of terror.
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NASA picks 3 private firms to develop space taxis
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:24PM August 03, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — NASA picked three aerospace companies Friday to build small rocketships to take astronauts to the International Space Station.
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MSL, EDL, huh? Guide to NASA's Mars mission lingo
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:10PM August 03, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Fascinated by NASA's latest Mars mission and planning to tune in?
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5 things you may not know about the planet Mars
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:29AM August 03, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Mars is set to get its latest visitor Sunday night when NASA's new robotic rover, named Curiosity, attempts to land there. Mars has been a prime target for space exploration for decades, in part because its climate 3.5 billion years ago is believed to have been warm and wet, like early Earth. Here are five other key points:
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Gas drilling research suffers from lack of funding
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:37PM August 01, 2012 CommentPITTSBURGH (AP) — Is gas drilling ruining the air, polluting water and making people sick? The evidence is sketchy and inconclusive, but a lack of serious funding is delaying efforts to resolve those pressing questions and creating a vacuum that could lead to a crush of lawsuits, some experts say.
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Mental side of sports: It's not just for Olympians
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:48PM August 01, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Now that you've been watching the world's top athletes compete in London, you may be inspired to go out and pursue your own sport at, um, less than an Olympic level. But even without their talent or practice regimens, you can take a lesson from what Olympians know: The mental game matters, too.
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Sally Ride Biography Scheduled for 2013
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:44AM July 31, 2012 Comment
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died Monday, July 23, 2012 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61.
NEW YORK (AP) — An authorized biography of astronaut Sally Ride, written by longtime ABC correspondent Lynn Sherr, is scheduled for publication next year.
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NASA to athletic Mars rover: 'Stick the landing'
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:03PM July 30, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — It's NASA's most ambitious and expensive Mars mission yet — and it begins with the red planet arrival late Sunday of the smartest interplanetary rover ever built. Also the most athletic.
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Researchers: Modern culture may have earlier start
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:25PM July 30, 2012 CommentJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Poisoned-tipped arrows and jewelry made of ostrich egg beads found in South Africa show modern culture may have emerged about 30,000 years earlier in the area than previously thought, according to two articles published on Monday.
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Why Mars again? A look at NASA's latest venture
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:33PM July 30, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NASA's new robot rover named Curiosity has spent 8½ months hurtling through space toward its destination Sunday on Mars. It is set to land near the foot of a mountain rising from a giant crater. This marks NASA's 19th mission and eighth landing attempt.
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Vietnam's tiger farms are called trafficking hubs
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:09AM July 27, 2012 CommentAN BINH, Vietnam (AP) — Nineteen tigers prowl outdoor cages the size of dormitory rooms, nibbling frayed wire fences and roaring at a caretaker who taunts them with his sandal.
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7 nations face sanctions over endangered species
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:59PM July 26, 2012 CommentGENEVA (AP) — Seven nations may lose their ability to legally trade tens of thousands of wildlife species after U.N. conservation delegates agreed Thursday to penalize them for lacking tough regulations or failing to report on their wildlife trade.
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A list of valuable endangered species
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:55PM July 26, 2012 CommentU.N. conservation delegates at a weeklong CITES meeting in Geneva approved sanctions against seven nations — Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Paraguay, Nepal, Rwanda, Solomon Islands and Syria — if they do not either strengthen their laws or provide national reports that are required of them before October 1. Here are some of the more valuable species found in those countries that conservationists worry about:
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Skydiver Fearless Felix jumps from 18 miles up
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:07PM July 25, 2012 CommentSkydiver "Fearless Felix" Baumgartner has done it again.
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Sally Ride sparks posthumous debate on coming out
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:47PM July 25, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Pioneering astronaut Sally Ride, who relished privacy as much as she did adventure, chose an appropriately discreet manner of coming out.
