Indonesian volcano erupts again
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 4 hours agoAP - An Indonesian volcano has shot black ash three miles (5,000 meters) into the air early — its most powerful eruption since springing back to life after four centuries of dormancy.
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US won't say if blowout preventer on way to shore
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 4 hours agoAP - The Justice Department won't say if the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BP's undersea well into the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to shore.
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Report: Money can buy you happiness, to a point
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 4 hours agoAP - They say money can't buy happiness. They're wrong.
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Money Buys Happiness Only Up to a Point
(LiveScience.com)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 5 hours agoLiveScience.com - Money might give you
a sense of overall satisfaction with life, but the extra dough won't ensure
days full of laughter and joy, a new survey analysis of income and happiness suggests.
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EU summons BASF over 'illegal' potatoes in Swedish field
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 6 hours agoAFP - Europe slapped a summons on German chemical giant BASF on Monday after a "blunder" allowed seed from a new genetically modified potato to remain in a field in Sweden.
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Galactic 'Supervolcano' Seen Erupting With X-Rays
(SPACE.com)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 10 hours agoSPACE.com - A galactic
"supervolcano" in the massive galaxy M87 is erupting, blasting gas
outwards. The cosmic volcano — driven by a giant
black hole in M87's center — is preventing hundreds of millions of new
stars from forming.
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American Made: Five Companies Bucking the Outsourcing Trend
(LiveScience.com)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 12 hours agoLiveScience.com - Labor Day, that traditional American holiday dating back to 1882,
invokes a different kind of patriotism this year as Americans struggle
to find jobs and a new "American Made" movement takes hold in Congress.
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Greenpeace two get jail terms in Japan whale meat case
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 14 hours agoAFP - A Japanese court Monday sentenced two Greenpeace activists to suspended one-year jail terms for stealing a box of whale meat that the group said was proof of embezzlement in state-run "research whaling".
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Focus of Gulf oil disaster shifts to finding the culprit
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 22 hours agoAFP - With a key piece of evidence raised from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico and BP's Macondo well ruled a threat no longer, the focus shifts to what went wrong and who is to blame.
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How Are Hurricanes Named?
(LiveScience.com)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 05:07:29 PMLiveScience.com - While the monikers of current hurricanes - including Earl and Fiona -
may seem simple, the system of naming hurricanes has a long and
complicated history.
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After 20 years of protection, owl declining but forests remain
(McClatchy Newspapers)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 03:01:00 PMMcClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Twenty years after northern spotted owls were protected under the Endangered Species Act, their numbers continue to decline, and scientists aren't certain whether the birds will survive even though logging was banned on much of the old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest where they live in order to save them.
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Wanted For Long Space Missions: Flexible Astronaut, Works Well With Others
(SPACE.com)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 02:15:56 PMSPACE.com - When it
comes to flying in space, the makeup of an astronaut crew can be just as
important as the mission itself, and the same goes for a team of six volunteers
going through the motions of a 520-day trek to Mars without ever leaving Earth.
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Guts of Exploded Star Revealed
(SPACE.com)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 02:15:55 PMSPACE.com - A wave of "star
guts" ejected into space from the supernova explosion of a massive dying
star has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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More Parents 'Redshirting' Kindergartners
(LiveScience.com)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 01:40:52 PMLiveScience.com - As schools start back into session around the country, some parents of young children face a difficult question: Send their little ones to kindergarten as soon as they become age-eligible, or hold them back in hopes that an additional year of maturity will give them an academic boost?
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French science vessel sails again on climate voyageÂ
(AFP)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 10:44:42 AMAFP - The French yacht Tara left on Sunday on the second leg of a three-year expedition across the world's oceans to chart the effects of climate change on micro-organisms that produce half our oxygen.
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Water meet focuses on pollution and quality
(AFP)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 09:22:02 AMAFP - Increasing water pollution and dwindling water quality around the globe will be the main focus as around 2,500 experts begin gathering in Stockholm Sunday for the 20th edition of the World Water Week.
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As a Hurricane, Earl Looked Like 'Magnificent Chaos' From Space
(SPACE.com)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 05:34:00 AMSPACE.com - The former
Hurricane Earl put on a striking weather display for astronauts on the
International Space Station, impressing the crew with its strength even as it
weakened to a tropical storm.
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On Months-Long Missions, How Durable Is An Astronaut's Mind?
(SPACE.com)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 05:33:59 AMSPACE.com - As an international team of volunteers in Russia approaches the three-month mark in its ambitious simulation of a 520-day flight to Mars, researchers are keeping a
close watch on how the six men are physically and psychologically coping.
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Top 10 Summer Sky Objects to See Before Fall
(SPACE.com)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 05:33:58 AMSPACE.com - As the summer night sky draws near
its close, there are still some cosmic objects that may beckon skywatchers
equipped with a small telescope, binoculars or their own two eyes.
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Thousands of Japanese schools serving whale meat
(AFP)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 05:20:26 AMAFP - Whale meat is on the menu at around a sixth of Japan's state-run elementary and junior high schools, a survey released Sunday showed.
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