Iflove Science Reviews: from Tropical Storm Fay, National Hurricane Center Phones to NASA Unmanned Experimental Rocket
Here it relates Iflove Science Reviews: from Tropical Storm Fay, National Hurricane Center Phones to NASA Unmanned Experimental Rocket.
Science News
NASA destroys rocket after failed launch
AP - Fri Aug 22, 12:15 PM ET
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. - NASA destroyed an unmanned experimental rocket carrying a pair of research satellites Friday when it veered off course shortly after an early morning liftoff.
Groups: Bush rushing to rewrite species rules
AP - Fri Aug 22, 4:07 PM ET
At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice AP - Fri Aug 22, 1:08 AM ET
Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela AP - Thu Aug 21, 6:08 PM ET
Real-World Recycling Puts U.S. to Shame LiveScience - Sat Aug 23, 4:16 PM ET
View: Headlines Only | Include Summaries | Include Photos
Weather News
Tropical Storm Julio approaches Mexican coast
AP - 22 minutes ago
MEXICO CITY - Tropical Storm Julio formed off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Saturday and was headed toward Baja California Peninsula.
Tropical Storm Fay not done yet, threatens Gulf cities
AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago
APALACHICOLA, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay just won’t quit.
Tropical Storm Fay heads for Alabama after crisscrossing Florida
Reuters - 2 hours, 32 minutes ago
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fay made a record fourth landfall in Florida on Saturday and pummeled the state’s northern panhandle with heavy rainfall as it prepared to cross into southern Alabama.
Tropical storm fay forms off Mexico’s Baja California
Reuters - 2 hours, 58 minutes ago
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Julio formed off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Saturday and headed for the Baja California peninsula, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Tropical Storm Fay leaves 11 dead as it slowly exits Florida
AFP - Sat Aug 23, 4:35 PM ET
MIAMI (AFP) - At least 11 people were killed in Tropical Storm Fay’s six-day march through Florida, as the slow-moving system inched out of the state dumping heavy rain in its path.
Space & Astronomy News
Iran plans to launch telecoms satellite: president
Reuters - Sat Aug 23, 1:03 PM ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran plans to launch a telecommunications satellite, the president said on Saturday, using missile technology the West fears is being developed to fire nuclear warheads.
Russian Rocket: All Fueled Up, But No Place to Fly
SPACE - Fri Aug 22, 6:02 PM ET
In another frustrating foul-up on the path towards converting Soviet-era military missiles into cash-paying satellite launchers, a military-industrial team in Moscow has announced the ‘indefinite suspension’ of plans to launch an earth resources survey satellite for Thailand.
Suborbital Rocket Carrying NASA Experiments Crashes off Wallops Island
SPACE - Fri Aug 22, 4:32 PM ET
WASHINGTON — An Alliant Techsystems (ATK) ALV-X1 suborbital rocket carrying two NASA hypersonic flight experiments was destroyed by range officials shortly after its Friday launch from the U.S. space agency’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s eastern shore.
NASA destroys rocket after failed launch
AP - Fri Aug 22, 12:15 PM ET
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. - NASA destroyed an unmanned experimental rocket carrying a pair of research satellites Friday when it veered off course shortly after an early morning liftoff.
At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice
AP - Fri Aug 22, 1:08 AM ET
WASHINGTON - In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday.
Animals/Pets News
Groups: Bush rushing to rewrite species rules
AP - Fri Aug 22, 4:07 PM ET
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is providing insufficient time for public comment as it seeks to loosen rules protecting endangered species, representatives of more than 100 conservation groups charged Friday.
Japan ends whale hunt with 211 catches
AFP - Fri Aug 22, 2:46 PM ET
TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese whaling ships will start arriving back back home Saturday after catching 211 whales during their three-month voyage in the northwest Pacific, the fisheries agency said.
Angel the dog credited with saving kittens
AP - Thu Aug 21, 5:18 PM ET
RENO, Nev. - You’ve heard of man bites dog. What about, dog saves cats? A two-year-old dog that had been turned over to the Nevada Humane Society’s shelter in Reno is being credited with rescuing six abandoned kittens.
Whopping Fish Declared New Species
LiveScience - Thu Aug 21, 11:11 AM ET
A man-sized grouper that trolls the tropical waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean for octopuses and crabs has been identified as a new fish species after genetic tests.
New Zealand’s colossal squid defies legends: scientists
AFP - Thu Aug 21, 3:39 AM ET
WELLINGTON (AFP) - New Zealand’s mysterious colossal squid, the largest of the feared and legendary species ever caught, was not the T-Rex of the oceans but a lethargic blob, new research suggests.
Dinosaurs & Fossils News
Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela
AP - Thu Aug 21, 6:08 PM ET
CARACAS, Venezuela - An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South America. Scientists say the find holds the promise of many discoveries to come.
US scientists find stone age burial ground in Sahara
AFP - Thu Aug 14, 1:26 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US-led team of archaeologists said Thursday they had discovered by chance what is believed to be the largest find of Stone Age-era remains ever uncovered in the Sahara Desert.
Prehistoric giant animals killed by man, not climate: study
AFP - Tue Aug 12, 5:23 AM ET
SYDNEY (AFP) - The chance discovery of the remains of a prehistoric giant kangaroo has cast doubts on the long-held view that climate change drove it and other mega-fauna to extinction, a new study reveals.
Ancient big cat fossils found in South America
AFP - Mon Aug 11, 10:28 PM ET
CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuela has found the first fossils of an extinct scimitar cat — of the saber-toothed cat genus — in South America, during oil prospecting activities southeast of Caracas, paleontologists announced.
Poland to open museum for cousin of T-Rex
Reuters - Wed Aug 6, 11:23 AM ET
LISOWICE, Poland (Reuters) - Poland opens a museum on Thursday to exhibit the remains of a previously unknown dinosaur, an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus Rex, which have attracted scientists from around the world to this small southern village.
Biotechnology News
Stem cell test to help treat bowel cancer
Reuters - Tue Aug 19, 8:18 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Stem cell scientists have developed a new and more accurate way of spotting aggressive forms of bowel cancer, allowing for tailored treatment that should improve patients’ chances of survival.
Medicine tailored to your genome, not your race: Venter
AFP - Tue Aug 19, 7:55 PM ET
PARIS (AFP) - Personalised, genome-based health care could help prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths caused each year by adverse drug reactions, genetics pioneer Craig Venter said Tuesday.
Stem cell advance may help transfusion supplies
AP - Tue Aug 19, 3:13 PM ET
NEW YORK - Scientists say they’ve found an efficient way to make red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, a possible step toward making transfusion supplies in the laboratory. The promise of a virtually limitless supply is tantalizing because of blood donor shortages and disappointments in creating blood substitutes.
Immune Response May Hinder Stem Cell Treatments
HealthDay - Mon Aug 18, 11:46 PM ET
MONDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDay News) — Human embryonic stem cells trigger an immune response in mice, a new study finds. If the same thing happens in humans, it could prove a big roadblock to stem cell-based treatments, researchers say.
Scientists Identify Genetic Contributor to Colorectal Cancer Risk
American Cancer Society - Fri Aug 15, 12:18 PM ET
Researchers at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and Northwestern University’s Cancer Genetics Program have found a definitive link between an inherited genetic variation and colorectal cancer risk. The variation, which occurs on a gene known as TGFBR1, significantly increases a person’s lifetime risk of getting the disease.
Energy News
Bush blames Democrats for high gas prices
AP - Sat Aug 23, 10:34 AM ET
CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush on Saturday blamed the Democratic-led Congress for the high cost of gasoline and renewed his call for expanded offshore drilling to increase U.S. oil supplies.
All but 1 state suit from BP explosion settled
AP - Fri Aug 22, 8:14 PM ET
HOUSTON - Victims of a deadly explosion at a BP PLC refinery have settled all but one of the more than 4,000 lawsuits that were filed in state court after the blast, attorneys said Friday.
Bernanke says inflation outlook “uncertain”
Reuters - Fri Aug 22, 5:40 PM ET
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday said the stronger dollar and lower oil prices, along with the weak economy, should curb inflation, in a hint that interest rates would stay on hold, though he warned the inflation outlook is “highly uncertain.”
Brazil: US should exploit offshore oil resources
AP - Fri Aug 22, 1:48 PM ET
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The president of Brazil’s state-run oil company says the United States must exploit offshore resources while limiting environmental impact.
Seven Florida deaths blamed on tropical storm Fay
Reuters - Fri Aug 22, 5:35 PM ET
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fay was blamed on Friday for seven deaths in Florida as forecasters warned that its torrential rains threatened a large swath of the southeastern United States with flooding over the weekend.
Most Popular Science News
Asked to Volunteer Time, People Give Money
LiveScience - Fri Aug 22, 4:02 PM ET
When asked to volunteer their time to charity, Americans are likely to give more money.
See Trio of Planets at Sunset
SPACE - Fri Aug 22, 7:01 AM ET
The planet Venus passed conjunction with the sun on June 9 and is now emerging into view in the western evening sky. But it will be a long and tedious process. Even by the end of September this planet will still very low at dusk.
Whopping Fish Declared New Species
LiveScience - Thu Aug 21, 11:11 AM ET
A man-sized grouper that trolls the tropical waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean for octopuses and crabs has been identified as a new fish species after genetic tests.
Fay heads for Alabama after crisscrossing Florida
Reuters - 2 hours, 32 minutes ago
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fay made a record fourth landfall in Florida on Saturday and pummeled the state’s northern panhandle with heavy rainfall as it prepared to cross into southern Alabama.
Study: Large Earthquake Could Strike New York City
LiveScience - Thu Aug 21, 8:03 PM ET
The New York City area is at “substantially greater” risk of earthquakes than previously thought, scientists said Thursday.
Here it relates Iflove Science Reviews: from Tropical Storm Fay, National Hurricane Center Phones to NASA Unmanned Experimental Rocket. Editing by Jack London
Iflove Proudly Presents
Thank you for visting iflove.com, the fairy legend of Edward Chen the Movie Star! You may want to Find Love or subscribe to RSS feed. Enjoy or do a search!
Iflove Science Reviews: from Tropical Storm Fay, National ……
Most Popular Science News. Asked to Volunteer Time, People Give Money LiveScience - Fri Aug 22, 4:02 PM ET Â When asked to volunteer their time to charity, Americans are likely to give more money. See Trio of Planets at Sunset SPACE ……