Science News
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NASA rover flexes arm for first time on Mars
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:35PM August 20, 2012 CommentLA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — NASA's Mars rover has taken another small step for robot-kind.
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NASA picks another Mars flight to explore its core
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:11PM August 20, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — After driving all around Mars with four rovers, NASA wants to look deep into the guts of the red planet.
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Astronauts go spacewalking to hang station shields
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:44PM August 20, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacewalking astronauts improved the safety of their orbiting home Monday by installing shields to protect against zooming pieces of junk.
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NASA rover Curiosity shoots a Mars rock with laser
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:06PM August 19, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NASA's Curiosity rover has zapped its first Martian rock, aiming its laser for the sake of science.
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Like NASA rover, family switches over to Mars time
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:06PM August 19, 2012 CommentLA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — For one family, an exotic summer getaway means living on Mars.
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NASA rover prepares to use laser on a Martian rock
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:22PM August 17, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Ready, set, fire.
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New family of spiders found in Oregon cave
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:59PM August 17, 2012 CommentGRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Amateur cave explorers have found a new family of spiders in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon, and scientists have dubbed it Trogloraptor — Latin for cave robber — for their fearsome front claws.
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AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:30AM August 17, 2012 CommentPITTSBURGH (AP) — In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.
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Japan's nuclear leaks sparked butterfly mutations
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:44PM August 16, 2012 CommentTOKYO (AP) — Radiation that leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant following last year's tsunami caused mutations in some butterflies — including dented eyes and stunted wings — though humans seem relatively unaffected, researchers say.
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Skydiver's supersonic plunge stalled by rough fall
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:06AM August 16, 2012 CommentSkydiver Felix Baumgartner will have wait until fall before attempting a supersonic jump from 23 miles up.
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Study off Mass. coast finds noise harming whales
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:41PM August 15, 2012 CommentBOSTON (AP) — Researchers say increasing amounts of underwater noise, largely from shipping traffic, are enveloping rare right whales in "acoustic smog" that makes it harder for them to communicate.
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Star births seen on cosmic scale in distant galaxy
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:11PM August 15, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It's a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year.
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Mexico's monarch butterfly reserve stops logging
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:56PM August 15, 2012 CommentMEXICO CITY (AP) — Illegal logging has practically been eliminated in the western Mexico wintering grounds of the monarch butterfly, according to a research report released Wednesday, and Mexican officials now hope to use the successful program of anti-logging patrols and payments to rural residents to solve other forestry conflicts throughout the country.
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Unmanned U.S. Military Hypersonic Craft Failed
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:49PM August 15, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — An unmanned experimental aircraft failed during an attempt to fly at six times the speed of sound in the latest setback for hypersonic flight.
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Cayman's imperiled blue iguanas on the rebound
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:33PM August 15, 2012 CommentQUEEN ELIZABETH II BOTANIC PARK, Cayman Islands (AP) — The blue iguana has lived on the rocky shores of Grand Cayman for at least a couple of million years, preening like a miniature turquoise dragon as it soaked in the sun or sheltered inside crevices. Yet having survived everything from tropical hurricanes to ice ages, it was driven to near-extinction by dogs, cats and cars.
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From Bill Gates, a toilet challenge spills forth
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:16AM August 15, 2012 CommentSEATTLE (AP) — These aren't your typical loos. One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns excrement into charcoal.
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Biggest Asian wildlife traffickers are untouchable
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:12AM August 15, 2012 CommentBANGKOK (AP) — Squealing tiger cubs stuffed into carry-on bags. Luggage packed with hundreds of squirming tortoises, elephant tusks, even water dragons and American paddlefish. Officials at Thailand's gateway airport proudly tick off the illegally trafficked wildlife they have seized over the past two years.
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17th century shipwreck to be freeze-dried, rebuilt
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:20AM August 15, 2012 CommentBRYAN, Texas (AP) — More than three centuries ago, a French explorer's ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico, taking with it France's hopes of colonizing a vast piece of the New World — modern-day Texas.
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New toilet technology after 150 years of waste
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:46PM August 14, 2012 CommentSEATTLE (AP) — These aren't your typical loos. One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns excrement into charcoal.
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Aircraft shoots to reach 3,600 mph for 5 minutes
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:15PM August 14, 2012 CommentEDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — The Air Force planned a key test Tuesday of an experimental aircraft designed to fly at six times the speed of sound, or about 3,600 mph.
