• Union of Concerned Scientists Northwest Airlines Asks Clear Channel to Pull Science Groups Anti-Nuclear-Weapons Ad in Minneapolis Airport

  Billboard Calls for Sen. McCain to 'Get Serious' About Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons WASHINGTON - August 19 - Northwest, the official airline of the Republican National Convention, has taken on a new role of censor. Yesterday it asked Clear Channel Communications to remove a Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) anti-nuclear-weapons billboard in the Minneapolis airport ...

• Center for Science in the Public Interest Obesity on the Kids Menus at Top Chains

  CSPI Investigation Reveals Kids' Meals at Restaurants Usually Too High in Calories, and Good Options Hard to Find WASHINGTON - August 4 - Nearly every single possible combination of the children's meals at KFC, Taco Bell, Sonic, Jack in the Box, and Chick-fil-A is too high in calories, according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, which today released the ...

• Brazil eyes closer space cooperation with Ukraine

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday expressed the wish to speed up her country's space cooperation with Ukraine. Speaking by phone earlier in the day, Rousseff and her Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych discussed bilateral cooperation, especially on the space sector. Brazil and Ukraine are partners in Alcantara Cyclon Space (ACS), a company which is preparing for the launch ...

• China is gearing at full pelt for Space

  The era of a space dominated by the U.S. and Russia is gone. Even when they have preserved their leadership in space exploration, they face a growing competition from other states, primarily from China. That conclusion is stated in a report prepared by Futron research company (USA). For five years Futron has been composing an index of competitive position of various participants of space ...

• Sarah Brightman to become next space tourist

  British crossover style performer Sarah Brightman announced here Wednesday her intention to become the next paying passenger to the International Space Station (ISS). "I am planning to become a space flight participant," Brightman told a press conference, after receiving the approval from a medical commission for training at Russia's Cosmonaut Training Center in July. Ahead of ...

• SpaceXs Dragon capsule docks with space station

  SpaceX's unmanned Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday morning to make the first-ever commercial cargo delivery to the orbiting lab. According to U.S. space agency NASA, Dragon was captured by station crew using Canadarm2 robotic arm and installed to the station's docking port on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony node at 9:03 a.m. EDT (1303 ...

• India to launch 58 space missions in next 5 years

  India is planning to launch 58 space missions, including sending spacecraft to Moon and Mars, an exclusive satellite to keep a round-the-clock watch on the country and deploy hundreds of transponders in the next five years, reported Press Trust of India on Sunday. The India Space Research Organization also aims to deploy its own version of the Global Positioning System by putting into orbit a ...

• Einstein letter on God to be auctioned on Internet

  A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as a product of human weakness is being sold on eBay for a starting price of $3 million. The letter, handwritten in 1954, a year before Einstein's death, was addressed to philosopher Eric Gutkind. In it, Einstein discussed his views on religion, including calling "the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive ...

• Space debris delays Japans satellite experiment

  The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday it has decided to postpone an experiment to release satellites from the International Space Station (ISS) due to approaching space debris. The experiment planned for the early hours of Friday is scheduled to launch five small satellites provided by the Fukuoka Institute of Technology and Tohoku University. The looming space debris may ...

• Einsteins brain is now interactive iPad app

  In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 photo, Dr. Phillip Epstein, left, and Steve Landers of the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago talk about the new iPad app being released Tuesday, Sept. 25 that allows users to see Albert Einstein's brain as if they were looking through a microscope. ...

• Japans Fukuoka to rent out roof space for solar panels

  Japan's southwestern Fukuoka Prefecture is planning to lease roof space at schools for solar panels with an aim to widely develop solar power generation, local press reported Tuesday. The new plan came after a new feed-in-tariff scheme for renewable energy started in the country this summer and was the first of its kind pushed by a local government in southwestern Japan. According to the ...

• China ASEAN launch science technology partner plan

  China and the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have launched a plan that will see them cooperate in fields of science and technology. More than 300 entrepreneurs and scholars from China and ASEAN countries attended a launch ceremony on Saturday in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on the sidelines of the ninth China-ASEAN ...

• Private capsule to launch cargo to space station on Oct. 7

  A private capsule is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on a cargo mission on Oct. 7, U.S. space agency NASA announced Thursday. The SpaceX's robotic Dragon spacecraft is set to blast off atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:34 p.m. EDT on Oct. 7 (0034 Oct. 8 GMT). This will be the first of 12 contracted flights ...

• Retired space shuttle Endeavor makes stopover in Houston

  HOUSTON, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of space fans in the U.S. city of Houston cheered space shuttle Endeavor Wednesday as the United States' last retired shuttle circled overhead and landed in the city. Riding piggyback on a modified Boeing 747, Endeavor landed Wednesday morning in Houston's Ellington Field, after a five-hour flight from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. An ...

• Russian Soyuz space capsule returns to earth

  A Russian Soyuz capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe on Monday, delivering a trio of astronauts from a four-month stint on the International Space Station. The capsule, carrying US astronaut Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, parachuted through a blue sky and touched down in a cloud of dust as its soft landing engines ignited at 8.53 local time (2.53 GMT). ...

• Space shuttle Endeavour stuck in Florida

  This photo provided by NASA shows space shuttle Endeavour atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. ...

• Appliance of science needs innovation

  They say great minds think alike -- but that's the last thing Bai Chunli wants. As president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he says what the country's scientific community needs most is diversity, not uniformity. "When we say someone is trying to do things in an unorthodox way, it's usually derogatory," the 58-year-old chemist said. "But in terms of ...

• New Zealand seeks greater science collaboration with U.S.

  WELLINGTON, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- A New Zealand government-led science delegation will head to the United States on Sunday to promote scientific collaboration between the two countries. Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce will lead the delegation to attend the New Zealand-United States Joint Commission on Science and Technology Cooperation which aims to promote collaboration in policy ...

• Japans robotic cargo ship leaves space station

  Astronauts on the International Space Station bade farewell to a Japanese cargo ship today (Sept. 12), ending Japan's latest delivery flight to the orbiting lab. Japan's unmanned H-2 Transfer Vehicle 3 (HTV-3) left the space station at 11:50 a.m. EDT (1350 GMT) after station astronauts used a robotic arm to detach the spacecraft from its docking port and set it free. The orbiting ...

• Russian voices determination on mending problems in space industry

  MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Russia must develop clear goals for its space program in order to pull its space industry out of the currently unhealthy state, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday. "Russia must formulate what it wants from space," Rogozin told the state-run Moscow radio, stressing a string of recent accidents with rocket launches were due to lack of clear ...

• Pakistan school bus explosion kills 17 children

  SLAMABAD – Seventeen Pakistani children burnt to death on Saturday when a gas cylinder on the bus taking them to school exploded, media said. Ten children were injured in the blaze on the outskirts of Gujrat, 100 miles (170 km) southeast of Islamabad, DawnNews said. Many vehicles in energy-starved Pakistan are powered by relatively cheap compressed natural gas and cylinder blasts are ...

• Discovery Science Place CEO to be on Broadcast this week

  Phil Lindsey, Discover Science Place CEO, will be interviewed this week on the Tyler Chamber Radio show.Discover Science Place is offering Summer Camps, where children can explore, design and create using cutting-edge technology and innovation. There is a different camp each week from June 24 through Aug. 16 and children in kindergarten through eighth grade can attend. Age of the Dinosaur, an ...

• Air Force Telecoms Satellite Launches in US

  MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - A Delta IV rocket successfully launched a Wideband Global SATCOM 5 satellite from Cape Canaveral on 20:27 EDT (4:27 Moscow time) Thursday, media reported.The US Air Force's satellite is headed for a geostationary orbit off the east coast of the United States and will take several months to reach it, Spaceflightnow.com said.The launch, conducted by Lockheed ...

• Riots spread outside Swedish capital

  A bystander checks the debris around a row of burnt cars in the suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm May 23, 2013. (REUTERS/Fredrik Sandberg/Scanpix) STOCKHOLM – A nearly week-long spate of rioting spread outside Stockholm on Friday but authorities said police reinforcements sent to the Swedish capital had reduced the violence there, even ...

• Dog found hanging from vicious homemade trap on B.C. trail

  A dog was caught in a vicious animal trap that consisted of a hunk of meat threaded through a series of five barbed hooks on the Baden Powell Trail in Vancouver on Thursday morning. (Facebook photo) Police in Vancouver have issued a public warning after a dog was hooked in a vicious animal trap on a hiking trail. A dog owner was walking her Labradoodle on the Baden Powell Trail around 10:30 ...

• Conclusion of FTA talks creates vast space for deepening Sino-Swissties Premier Li

  The conclusion of talks over a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Switzerland will create a vast space for further development of bilateral ties and is also conducive to the development of China-Europe relations, visiting Chinese Premier Li keqiang said here Friday.At a joint press conference with Swiss President Ueli Maurer, Li said he and the Swiss leader reached many important ...

• Vicious dog severs Oshawa mans nose

  Play video TORONTO - It hasn’t been a great start to the summer for a young Oshawa man, having had his nose chewed off by a vicious dog while protecting his girlfriend, and then thrown out of his apartment. It was last Saturday night, while kicking back on the front porch of the rooming house he lives in at 140 Brock St., that Jimmy Rogers, a 23-year-old unemployed construction worker, ...

• Fillmore science educator is Ventura County Teacher of the Year

  JOSEPH A. GARCIA/THE STAR Sierra High School science teacher Laura Todis (center) joins her students after being named the 2013 Ventura County Teacher of the ...

• Vice Premier calls for scientific quake reconstruction

  Reconstruction in the earthquake-affected zone in southwest China's Sichuan Province should be conducted in a scientific, orderly and efficient manner, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli has stressed.Zhang made the comments during a conference in Beijing on Friday afternoon, after he had accompanied President Xi Jinping earlier this week to visit the province's Lushan County, which was hit by a ...

• Alberta trucker involved in Washington state bridge collapse

  Local residents line the river banks to look at a span of highway bridge sitting in the Skagit River May 24, 2013 after collapsing near the town of Mt Vernon, Washington late Thursday. REUTERS/Cliff ...

• Dead tots parents storm out of court after alleged drunk driver gets bail

  Sage Morin is comforted by a supporter as she holds a picture of her son Geo Mounsef outside the Law Courts, in Edmonton, Alta. on Friday May 24, 2013. Geo, 2, was killed after an SUV plowed into the patio at Ric's Grill, 14229 - 23 Ave., where he was sitting with his family May 19, 2013. Richard Suter was granted bail in the incident Friday. David Bloom/Edmonton Sun/QMI ...

• Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Racially Profiled Latinos Federal Judge Rules

  Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks with a reporter outside city jail in this May 3, 2010, file photo. (PAUL J. ...

• NDP excited to grill Harper next week

  Senator Mike Duffy arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa May 23, 2013. Duffy resigned from the Conservative caucus last week amid an expenses scandal. REUTERS/Chris ...

• Rocket lifts off with U.S. military communications satellite

  Fri May 24, 2013 9:29pm EDT * Spacecraft to be used for broadband communications * 2nd flight for United Launch Alliance in nine days * Five more satellites in network to follow By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. May 24 (Reuters) - An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday to put a multi-use, broadband communications satellite into orbit for the U.S. ...

• Communications satellite launched into space

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening. The satellite was the fifth Wideband Global satcom spacecraft to be launched.The satellite, which is being sent into an orbit that follows the earth's rotation 22,000 miles above the equator, will serve ...

• Hands-free devices not necessarily safer Study

  Mayank Rehani demonstrates the driving simulator used to study the impact of hands-free distraction on drivers at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Centre in Edmonton on May 24, 2013. Dave Lazzarino/Edmonton Sun/QMI Agency EDMONTON -- Distracted driving laws enacted in most of Canada means drivers have had to keep their cell phones out of their hands and their eyes on the road. But a recent study by ...

• Man beat ex with toilet lid torched suite

  Zachary Holland. (File) EDMONTON - An Edmonton man who used a toilet tank lid to attack a transsexual before torching her suite and dragged his girlfriend from a car was sentenced to 15 years Thursday. Zachary Holland, 26, pleaded guilty to several charges including arson causing bodily harm, two counts of aggravated assault, kidnapping and uttering death threats. Provincial Court Judge James ...

• Space date with Leo DiCaprio auctions for $1.5 million

  Actor Leonardo DiCaprio attends the "The Great Gatsby" world premiere at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on May 1, 2013, in New ...

• 3-D printer going to space station in 2014

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• Tempura-battered tarantula on menu at California bug fest

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hungry? How about tempura-battered fried Tarantula for an appetizer? They're frozen then defrosted before bug chef David George Gordon cuts off the abdomen, singes off hairs with a lighter and dunks the remaining spider body into ...

• DiCaprio Space Trip Nets $1.5M

  (Image Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) At a Cannes Film Festival charity auction as star-studded as one of the Great Gatsby’s parties, a pitch rang out that sounded like a sci-fi sequel to ';Catch Me If You Can.'; ';How would you like to go to space with Leonardo DiCaprio?'; said an auctioneer, the actress Nicole Kidman. ';I can’t believe he ...

• Space station astronauts snap amazing photos of Alaskan volcanic eruption

  Pavlof Volcano has been erupting for over a week, releasing a humongous plume of ash, steam, and smoke visible from the International Space Station. The eruption has quieted down, but seismic data suggests that it's not ...

• How 3D Printers Could Reinvent NASA Space Food

  NASA officials confirmed this week that the space agency awarded $125,000 to the Austin, Texas-based company Systems and Materials Research Consultancy (SMRC) to study how to make nutritious and ...

• How One Russian Got A Trip To Outer Space With Leo DiCaprio

  Leonardo DiCaprio. Off to space next year. A wealthy Russian oligarch living in Monaco spent over a million dollars to sit -- and then float -- alongside him while they orbit the planet in a Virgin Galactic space ship. This is one easy how-to article. How do you get to go into outerspace with an A-lister, in this case Leonardo DiCaprio? Well, first you have to be go to the Cannes Film ...

• 3D Printer Headed to Space Station in 2014

  A 3D printer is slated to arrive at the International Space Station next year, where it will crank out the first parts ever manufactured off Earth. The company Made in Space is partnering with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on ...

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