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Spotlight Stories Headlines
- New method for producing 'libraries' of important carbohydrate molecules- Hewlett-Packard recalling 54K laptop batteries
- Shuttle Atlantis undocks from space station
- Immune evasion common in many viruses, bacteria and parasites is uncommon in M. tuberculosis
- 57 ancient tombs with mummies unearthed in Egypt
- Small mammals -- and rest of food chain -- at greater risk from global warming than thought
- Organic solids in soil may speed up bacterial breathing
- Research questions amphibians' UV vulnerability
- Facebook tuning privacy controls to appease critics
- Atlantis crew relaxes after wrapping up spacewalks
- Copernicus's remains reburied in Polish cathedral
- Attempt at 'top kill' method to clog oil leak delayed
- Did megafauna extinction cool the planet?
Space & Earth news
NASA sees one of Cyclone Laila's thunderstorms almost 11 miles high
A NASA 3-D look inside Cyclone Laila as it made landfall yesterday revealed a towering thunderstorm reaching almost 11 miles high! NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite has been capturing images of Cyclone Laila since it was born in the Northern Indian Ocean as tropical depression 1A earlier this week.
UN study backs economic changes to save natural world: report
A key UN report on biodiversity will recommend massive economic changes like company fines to help save species and protect the natural world, The Guardian reported here on Saturday.
Anger mounts as oil blackens Louisiana coast
Anger was mounting as heavy oil blackened Louisiana's marshes and beaches and efforts to cap the oil which has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month met with more delays.
Atlantis to undock from ISS on final mission
The US space shuttle Atlantis prepared to undock from the International Space Station Sunday after delivering tons of supplies on the final mission for the 25-year-old spacecraft.
Attempt at 'top kill' method to clog oil leak delayed
A make-or-break attempt to clog a ruptured pipe gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico with a method dubbed the "top kill" has been delayed until at least Tuesday, officials said Friday.
Atlantis crew relaxes after wrapping up spacewalks
(AP) -- Atlantis' six astronauts got a little down time up in orbit Saturday on the eve of their departure from the International Space Station.
Organic solids in soil may speed up bacterial breathing
The "mineral-breathing" bacteria found in many oxygen-free environments may be "carbon-breathing" as well.
Shuttle Atlantis undocks from space station
(AP) -- After a week of flying together, shuttle Atlantis undocked from a larger and virtually completed International Space Station on Sunday and headed for home on its final voyage.
Did megafauna extinction cool the planet?
The rapid decline of mammoths and other megafauna after humans spread across the New World may explain a bone-chilling plunge in global temperatures some 12,800 years ago, researchers reported Sunday.
Biology news
Research questions amphibians' UV vulnerability
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research recently conducted by two ecologists, Wendy Palen at Simon Fraser University and Daniel Schindler at the University of Washington, finds that Pacific Northwest amphibian species are far less vulnerable to UV radiation than first thought.
Small mammals -- and rest of food chain -- at greater risk from global warming than thought
The balance of biodiversity within North American small-mammal communities is so out of whack from the last episode of global warming about 12,000 years ago that the current climate change could push them past a tipping point, with repercussions up and down the food chain, say Stanford biologists. The evidence lies in fossils spanning the last 20,000 years that the researchers excavated from a cave in Northern California.
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