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Outside science academies to review warming panel
(AP)
AP - The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports.
NASA: Money key to more space shuttle flights
(AP)
AP - With space shuttle retirement just months away, a senior NASA manager said Tuesday it wouldn't be hard to add more flights, provided the nation is willing to keep paying $200 million a month.
Pioneering Mass. robot lost at sea off Chile coast
(AP)
AP - A pioneering deep-sea robot made by Massachusetts researchers has been lost off the coast of Chile.
Big Generation Gaps in Work Attitudes Revealed
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Experiences help to shape life, so it's reasonable to think
someone who grew up when John F. Kennedy was shot might have a different worldview
than a person who witnessed Enron collapse and has been "wired" since
just a tot.
Police probe Toyota Prius crash in NYC suburb
(AP)
AP - The driver of a Toyota Prius told police in suburban New York that the car accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into a stone wall.
Govt has no plans now to sell stake in ONGC, IOC - Oil secy
(Reuters)
Reuters - The government has no immediate plans to sell stake in state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Oil Secretary S. Sundareshan told reporters on Wednesday.
SpaceX aborts rocket engine test
(Reuters)
Reuters - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts -- to the International Space Station.
Effort to Map Human Brain Faces Complex Challenges
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Mapping the connections among brain cells could someday prove as
revolutionary as mapping the human genome. But tracing each synaptic
connection between neurons - essentially a manual effort so far - has
proven painstakingly slow. To approach a thorough mapping, researchers
will have to develop a computer-automated process.
As Chile shook, cities rolled to the west a bit
(AP)
AP - The Earth really did move during the massive Chile quake: Researchers say cities and islands physically shifted west a bit.
Gourmet diners 'may spell extinction' for sea turtle
(AFP)
AFP - Malaysians' voracious appetite for turtle eggs could drive the marine creatures to extinction on its shores, conservationists warned on Wednesday.