25/07/2005

Melting glacier worries scientists

Scientists monitoring a Greenland glacier have found it is moving into the sea three times faster than a decade ago, The Independent reported Monday.

Red Deer Confirms Global Warming

The red deer is recorded in the Red Book of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) as a species inhabiting only South Yakutia. However, Valentina Stepanova, specialist of the Institute of Biological Problems of Cryolitozone, Siberian Branch, ...

Study: Cats cannot taste sweets

United States and British researchers announced Monday they have found a defective gene that makes it impossible for cats to taste sugar or other sweets.

Analysis: Google nudging changes in China

The announcement last week that Google, the world's premier search engine, had chosen Beijing as the location for its eighth research and development center marks an important transformation from the virtual to real world ...

British queen goes green

The Queen of England is ready to go green after getting the go-ahead to run Windsor Castle on hydroelectric power, it was announced Monday.

Human Service Mission To The International Lunar Observatories

SpaceDev has been awarded a small contract by Lunar Enterprise Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Space Age Publishing Company to perform the work necessary to create a conceptual mission architecture and mission design ...

Spirit Scampering Up Husband Hill

by Steve Squyres Spirit has had a pretty remarkable week. Back when we were climbing the lower reaches of Husband Hill, getting anywhere was a real struggle. The terrain wasn't all that steep, but the soil was very loose ...

NASA Go for Return to Flight Launch Attempt Tuesday

NASA gave the green light for a launch attempt Tuesday for Space Shuttle Discovery on its Return to Flight mission (STS-114). Launch is scheduled for 10:39 a.m. EDT, and it will be carried live on NASA TV.

Where's The Heat? Think 'Deep Blue'

"It's a match!" For detectives in a crime story, identical fingerprints or cloth fibers might solve the case. For scientists, it could be something equally dramatic. It might be real-life observations that match the simulations ...

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