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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)

The crew of space shuttle Discovery, from left, pilot James Dutton, mission specialist Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger,   Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, commander Alan Poindexter, mission specialists Rick Mastracchio, Stephanie Wilson and mission specialist Clayton Anderson, leave the Operations and Checkout Building on their way to board the shuttle at pad 39a during their prelaunch training, called the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, March 5, 2010.(AP Photo/John Raoux)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)

This undated photo released by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows a deep sea robot, known as ABE, that was lost Friday, March 5, 2010 off the coast of Chile during its 222nd research dive. (AP Photo/Woods Hold Oceanographic Institution, Dan Fornari)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)

Engineers of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) stand inside the Kalol oil field in Gujarat September 12, 2009. REUTERS/Amit Dave/FilesReuters - 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)

The Falcon 9 vehicle undergoes final integration in the hangar at the SpaceX launch site in Cape Canaveral, in an undated photo. The vehicle's nine Merlin 1C engines are at far left, and second stage is at far right. REUTERS/SpaceX/HandoutReuters - 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)

A green sea turtle at the turtle conservation section at Aquaria KLCC in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysians' voracious appetite for turtle eggs could drive the marine creatures to extinction on its shores, conservationists have warned.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar)AFP - Malaysians' voracious appetite for turtle eggs could drive the marine creatures to extinction on its shores, conservationists warned on Wednesday.


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