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Next Mars Rover Mission on Schedule Even as Cost Rises: Despite another overrun that could push its cost to more than $2 billion, NASA’s next-generation Mars rover mission remains on track for launching next fall, NASA officials said Friday.
“Things are going quite well technically,” Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA headquarters, [...]

Three Bureau of Land Management biologists were held at gunpoint by members of a Mexican drug cartel after stumbling upon a marijuana garden in a remote area of Northern Nevada on Tuesday.
The biologists were surveying the north fork of the Little Humboldt River, near the Nevada-Oregon border, when they suddenly found themselves in a marijuana [...]

John James Audubon’s Species: Bird Paintings Art, in All Its Glory. In 1812, John James Audubon filled a wooden box with about 200 of his paintings of American birds and left it with a relative for safekeeping while he went off on one of his many trips. When he returned to retrieve the paintings, he [...]

Nobel Prize’s scientific background: 2008 Chemistry Nobel Prize goes to those who lit up cells. GFP expressed in nerve cells lights up the axons they extend from the developing spinal cord.
Many of the techniques that biologists use for looking at cells and organisms involve taking the equivalent of a static snapshot of the state of [...]

Hurricane Ike  flattened just about everything in its path, Pictures of a lone home that managed to survive Tropical Storm Fay
 
The Lone House: Not All Houses Are Created Equal
Hurricane Ike flattened just about everything in its path. Well, almost everything. Pictures of a lone home that managed to survive the storm’s fury are causing a [...]

Tropical Storm Fay now a tropical depression: The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Fay has been downgraded to a tropical storm fay.
APALACHICOLA, Fla. – Tropical Storm Fay was downgraded to a tropical depression Saturday night, but cities along the Gulf Coast were still bracing for heavy rain.
¦lt;br /> As a tropical storm, Fay set [...]

Here it relates Iflove Science Reviews: from Tropical Storm Fay, National Hurricane Center Phones to NASA Unmanned Experimental Rocket.
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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 [...]

Cloak of Silence: Scientists shows off the blueprint for an acoustic cloak
Experts unveil ‘cloak of silence’ – Being woken in the dead of night by noisy neighbours blasting out music could soon be a thing of the past.
Scientists have shown off the blueprint for an “acoustic cloak”, which could make objects impervious to sound waves.
The [...]

Iflove Science Summary This Week: Shuttle Discovery, Phoenix Lander and NASA Mission. Dated from June 9 – 15, 2008
Phoenix Gets Some Dirt on Mars
An image of a sample collected from the Martian soil shows many kinds of particles. The white bar represents 1mm. (Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University Arizona) A second image clearly shows the strips of machine [...]

Heavy-rain forecasts: UK Meteorological Office to improve its ability to pinpoint heavy rain
The UK Meteorological Office says it has improved its ability to pinpoint where and when heavy rain will occur.
Forecasts of severe downpours will now be issued up to 24 hours earlier, it says, giving local authorities more time to prepare flood control measures.
The [...]