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Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games (AP)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:53:06 GMT

This handout photo from NASA shows David Bashford, right, lead of the LaserMotive team, preparing their robotic climber entry in the $2 million Space Elevator Games at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. In a the test of the concept, robotic machines powered by laser beams will try to climb a cable suspended from a helicopter, on a course 900 meters (2,953 feet) high. (AP Photo/NASA, Tom Tschida)AP - A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space — an idea spurred by science fiction novels.



(AP)

Prized mushroom collection returns to China (AP)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:26:30 GMT
AP - A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later.


Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises (AP)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:50:21 GMT

FILE- In this April 24, 2008 file photo, a sea lion eats a salmon in the Columbia River near Bonneville Dam in North Bonneville, Wash. A report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers show no decrease in the numbers of salmon eaten by sea lions at the dam since 25 California sea lions have been removed or killed the past two years. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)AP - Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.



(AP)

The Many Mysteries of Neanderthals (LiveScience.com)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:51:50 GMT
LiveScience.com - Editor's Note: This is Part 6 in a 10-part LiveScience series on the origin, evolution and future of the humanspecies and the mysteries that remain to be solved.


G20 wants 'ambitious' Copenhagen talks (AFP)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:30:48 GMT

General view of the Fairmont Hotel, in St Andrews, Scotland, where the G20 Finance Ministers and Bank Governors Meeting is being hosted. The G20 is committed to an AFP - G20 countries committed to work towards an "ambitious outcome" at next month's vital UN climate change conference after meeting on Saturday, but fell short of agreeing a figure on climate funding.



(AFP)

Yemen joins gas exporters' club (AFP)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:44:28 GMT

Yemeni soldiers guard the Balhaf plant on the Gulf of Aden. Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries, has joined the international club of gas exporters as pumping started at the newly-built liquefied natural gas plant in the Gulf of Aden.(AFP/Marwan Naamani)AFP - Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries, joined the international club of gas exporters Saturday with pumping starting at a newly built liquefied natural gas plant in the Gulf of Aden.



(AFP)

Space Junk Buzzes Station as Astronauts Sleep (SPACE.com)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:02:08 GMT

In this image provided by NASA, the Russian segment of the international space station is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 18 crewmember during a spacewalk Tuesday March 10, 2009.SPACE.com - A smallchunk of space trash made an uncomfortably close pass by theInternational Space Station late Friday, but not close enough to force theastronauts aboard to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats.



(SPACE.com)

Gene Therapy for Fatal Brain Disorder 'Just the Beginning' (HealthDay)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:48:51 GMT
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- The reported success of gene therapy in treating two children with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) brings hope to patients with the potentially crippling and fatal brain disorder and their families, says a nonprofit group that supports ALD research.


Genetic tests for UK asylum seekers draw criticism (AP)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:13:55 GMT

Graphic shows asylum applications received by the British governmentAP - Britain is using genetic tests on some African asylum seekers in an effort to catch those who are lying about their nationality, drawing criticism from scientists and provoking outrage from rights groups.



(AP)

Alaska island village hit by suspected swine flu (AP)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:05:19 GMT

This October 2002 picture provided by Dr. David Head of the Norton Sound Health Corporation shows the village of Diomede on Little Diomede Island in extreme western Alaska. So many of the 130 residents of the isolated community have been stricken with flu-like symptoms that the Alaska Army National Guard stepped in with a Black Hawk helicopter to transport a medical team there from Nome 135 miles away. The medics arrived Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 to administer doses of swine flu vaccine and deliver enough medicine to treat every resident if necessary. (AP Photo/Norton Sound Health Corporation, David Head)AP - Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island — prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.



(AP)

Dinosaur prints found on NZealand's South Island (AFP)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:58:16 GMT

Scientist Greg Browne sits next to one of six 70 million-year-old footprints found in various locations in the Nelson region. They are the first dinosaur footprints found in New Zealand although bones, mostly vertebrae, have been found in two North Island locations. Browne, a sedimentologist, believes the footprints belonged to sauropods -- plant-eating dinosaurs.(AFP/HO)AFP - Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations.



(AFP)

G20 wants 'ambitious outcome' at climate talks (AFP)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:22:06 GMT

General view of the Fairmont Hotel, in St Andrews, Scotland, where the G20 Finance Ministers and Bank Governors Meeting is being hosted. The G20 is committed to an AFP - The G20 is committed to an "ambitious outcome" at December's UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, it said in a communique after talks Saturday, but did not agree a figure for climate finance.



(AFP)

The nation's weather (AP)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:29:16 GMT
AP - Mild weather was expected over the Central U.S. as light showers continued over the Great Lakes on Wednesday.


Seattle Team Wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Contest (SPACE.com)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:02:07 GMT
SPACE.com - ASeattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsoredcontest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in thesky.


Genes Linked to 'Pot' Belly (HealthDay)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:48:46 GMT
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- New research sheds light on the possible link between the genes you inherit and the size of your belly.


Obama Urged to Find Climate Money (OneWorld.net)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:52:06 GMT
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (OneWorld.net) - Climate analysts are calling on the Obama administration to use an international finance meeting this week to press for a swift end to subsidies for coal, oil, and natural gas companies around the world.


Tens of thousands of homes flooded in Mexico (AP)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:06:25 GMT

A man moves a boat in front of a flooded home near Huimanguillo, Mexico, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. According to local reports, nearly 200,000 people in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco have been affected by this week's flooding, as more rain fell on the region today. (AP Photo/America Rocio)AP - A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast, officials said Friday. Residents in some towns complained that no help had arrived.



(AP)
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