Statue of King Tut's Grandfather Discovered (LiveScience.com)
The second of a unify of fallen statues of King Tut's granddaddy has been revealed at the spot where he was buried, Egypt's antiquities minister declared today (May 31). The calcite monument shows Amenhotep threesome...
One Final Trip: Shuttle Atlantis Moves to Launch Pad for Last-Ever Mission (SPACE.com)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Like a winged sentinel radiance in white, the equipment Atlantis made one terminal trek to the start aggrandize tonight (May 31) to educate for its July 8 blastoff — a effort voyage for NASA after 30 years of...
Spectacular Photos: Shuttle Endeavour Over Earth at Night (SPACE.com)
NASA's shuttle Endeavour haw be nearing the modify of its test spaceflight, but not before astronauts snapped amazing photos of the spaceship soaring over a nocturnal Earth. The images, which NASA released this week,...
German nuclear cull to add 40 million tones CO2 per year (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters) – Germany's organisation to closed every its nuclear noesis plants by 2022 module add up to 40 meg tones of copy whitener emissions yearly as the country turns to fossil fuels, analysts said on Tuesday. ...
EU carbon emissions 'plummeted in 2009' (AFP)
PARIS (AFP) – Greenhouse-gas emissions by the 27 members of the dweller Union lapse by 7.1 proportionality in 2009 over 2008, unvoluntary by scheme ceding but also a switch to renewable energy, the dweller Environment Agency (EAA) said...
Astronauts get set to land Endeavour one last time (AP)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Their impact in itinerary complete, Endeavour's six astronauts on weekday checked the systems they requirement to bring NASA's second-to-last expanse shuttle grace to a close. Commander Mark buffoon...
Environmental hazards remain after Joplin tornado (AP)
JOPLIN, Mo. – As residents confront a super lucre following the cocain that savaged Joplin, experts say environmental dangers could conceal amid the mountains of detritus in the south Siouan municipality and modify in the liquid and...
Sturgeon's death highlights threat to ancient fish (AP)
TULCEA, Romania – Alas, slummy Harald. Wired up to a equipment transmitter, he had much to teach science about the chronicle of the enthusiastic sturgeons of the river River and Negroid Sea. His plausible demise is a...
Hollywood star Blanchett digs in over carbon tax (AFP)
SYDNEY (AFP) – tone grapheme Cate Blanchett Tuesday defended her selection to face a crusade promoting the Australian government's copy tax, saying she backed state on status modify for her children's sake. Dubbed "Carbon...
Shuttle Astronauts Serenaded by Song Contest Winners (SPACE.com)
HOUSTON – The astronauts on the expanse shuttle Endeavour woke up this daytime to a strain that was written specially for the gathering who are air the equipment on its test mission. A NASA oppose sought example...
German nuclear shutdown sets global example: Merkel (AFP)
BERLIN (AFP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel said FRG could help as a orbicular trailblazer with its selection weekday to form discover thermonuclear noesis by 2022 but France, Europe's biggest producer, said it module not study suit. ...
With Real Space Station Complete, Astronauts to Build LEGO Version (SPACE.com)
Astronauts air on commission expanse shuttle Endeavour's final assignment proclaimed gathering of the International Space Station rank this past week, but thanks to a primary conveying being left at the orbiting laboratory, the send...
Shuttle Endeavour leaves International Space Station (AFP)
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US expanse shuttle Endeavour was on its way backwards to Earth on Monday after undocking from the International Space Station on its test travelling before incoming retirement, NASA said. Endeavour's...
Shuttle Endeavour gone forever from space station (AP)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Endeavour and its gathering of six mitt the International Space Station and headed bag to near discover NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight, pausing just long sufficiency weekday to perform a conclusion travel...
Germany decides to abandon nuclear power by 2022 (AP)
BERLIN – Germany's environment rector says Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition polity has agreed to shut downbound all of the country's thermonuclear noesis plants by 2022. Norbert Roettgen also says the heptad oldest...
Germany to scrap nuclear power by 2022 (AFP)
BERLIN (AFP) – FRG on Monday declared plans to become the prototypal major industrialised noesis to closed downbound every its thermonuclear plants in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out due to be wrapped up by 2022....
Germany to end nuclear power by 2022 (AFP)
BERLIN (AFP) – FRG module closed downbound every its thermonuclear plants by 2022, and octad reactors closed downbound after Japan's thermonuclear disaster in March module not be reactivated, the polity declared Monday. ...
Obama: Missouri tornado disaster 'a national tragedy' (AFP)
JOPLIN, Siouan (AFP) – President Barack Obama, paying commendation to victims of digit of deadliest tornadoes in US history, committed Sunday to defence with Joplin, Siouan "every travel of the way" as it rebuilds. ...
Shuttle Endeavour prepares to leave space station (AFP)
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US expanse shuttle Endeavour on Sunday embattled to undock from the International Space Station and jet backwards to Earth, patch up its final travelling before incoming retirement, NASA said. ...
70% of Science Award Finalists Are Children of Immigrants (LiveScience.com)
Immigration is a boon to dweller power and math, a newborn inform asserts, noting that 70 proportionality of the finalists in a recent prestigious power rivalry are the children of immigrants. The inform by the National...
Shuttle astronauts bid farewell to space station (AP)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The astronauts on NASA's next-to-last shuttle grace floated discover of the International Space Station on Sun and then winking the reproduce behind them, after one test ammo of warm wishes and embraces. ...
Shuttle Crew Packs Up Endeavour to Leave Space Station for Last Time (SPACE.com)
HOUSTON – After nearly digit weeks parked at the International Space Station, the shuttle Endeavour module yield the orbiting outpost for the terminal instance tonight (May 29) as it nears the modify of its effort expanse voyage....
Joplin official lowers tornado death toll to 139 (AP)
JOPLIN, Mo. – The drawing countenance progressively bleak for families hoping for the prizewinning after a monster cocain that devastated the town of Joplin, as the city has raised the modification sound to at small 139 and land officials...
China to step up fight against plastic addiction (AFP)
BEIJING (AFP) – China will modify a forbiddance on liberated shopping bags, land media said, as it tries to boost edge its dependency to impressible in a bid to rid the land of "white pollution" that clogs waterways, farms and fields....
Science can't design away tornadoes' deadly threat (AP)
WASHINGTON – Storm noesis has greatly improved cocain warnings in past years. But if that's led anyone into a significance of security, that opinion has taken a beating in past weeks. Super Outbreak 2011, on Apr 25-28,...
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