23 Jul 2008

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Hurricane Dolly strengthens as it nears Texas (Reuters)

A tourist uses his binoculars at Bagdad beach, some 23.6 miles from the border city of Matamoros, prior to predicted arrival of Tropical storm Dolly July 21, 2008. REUTERS/Tomas BravoReuters - Hurricane Dolly strengthened on Wednesday as it churned toward southern Texas, and was expected to lash low-lying areas on the U.S.-Mexico border with torrential rains when it comes ashore around mid-day.


23 Jul 2008 11:26am GMT

EU proposes crackdown on seal hunt (AP)

Just a pup : A three-day-old baby seal swims in its pool at the zoo in the western German town of Duisburg. (AFP/DDP/Sascha Schuermann)AP - The European Union proposed an import ban Wednesday on products derived from seals that are killed in a cruel way, a move that could hurt the annual seal hunt in Canada — the largest in the world.


23 Jul 2008 11:24am GMT

Small Satellite Designed to Spot Big Bad Asteroids (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A tiny Canadian satellite is gearing up for a mission to hunt wayward space rocks that may pose a threat to Earth.

23 Jul 2008 11:02am GMT

Researcher says Gulf dead zone bigger than ever (AP)

AP - A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist warned.

23 Jul 2008 9:39am GMT

Alaska House OKs gas pipeline license (AP)

AP - The Alaska State House of Representatives has approved a state license for a Canadian company to pursue a natural gas pipeline project that could unlock 4.5 billion cubic feet of North Slope gas reserves daily.

23 Jul 2008 6:17am GMT

22 Jul 2008

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Fossil Suggests Antarctica Much Warmer in Past (LiveScience.com)

This photo received courtesy of Science shows a sculptured iceberg in North Bay, Rothera Point, Adelaide Island, Antarctica. Shrinking sea ice is significantly increasing the rate at which icebergs scour the Antarctic seabed, a study released Thursday has found.(AFP/Science/Pete Bucktrout)LiveScience.com - A college student's new discovery of fossils collected in the East Antarctic suggests that the frozen polar cap was once a much balmier place. The well-preserved fossils of ostracods, a type of small crustaceans, came from the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica's Transantarctic Mountains and date from about 14 million years ago. The fossils were a rare find, showing all of the ostracods' soft anatomy in 3-D. The fossils were discovered by Richard Thommasson during screening of the sediment in research team member Allan Ashworth's lab at North Dakota State University. ...


22 Jul 2008 11:33pm GMT

Dino diversity had a long pedigree, says study (AFP)

A woman inspects the head of a Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur sculpture in Stuttgart, 2007. The belief that dinosaurs underwent explosive species diversification just before they were wiped out is an illusion, for the beasts' main evolutionary shifts took place millions of years before, a study says.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Latz)AFP - The belief that dinosaurs underwent explosive species diversification just before they were wiped out is an illusion, for the beasts' main evolutionary shifts took place millions of years before, a study says.


22 Jul 2008 11:10pm GMT

21 Jul 2008

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Scholars plan to reunite ancient Bible — online (AP)

A truck driver turns the pages of his bible at a truck stop in San Antonio, Texas May 11, 2008. REUTERS/Jessica RinaldiAP - The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again — online.


21 Jul 2008 11:16pm GMT

Ancient Egyptian boat to be excavated, reassembled (AP)

Belgium tourists visit the ancient Pharaoh king Cheops' first solar boat during their visit to the boat museum at the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt, Saturday, July 19, 2008. Cheops' second solar boat is displayed through a camera put inside the boat which tourists will be able to see for the first time without the pit having to be uncovered again. Solar boats are believed to have been built to take King Cheops to the heavens after his death nearly 5000 years ago. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)AP - Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday.


21 Jul 2008 11:16pm GMT

17 Jul 2008

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Two genes may prevent HIV infection: Canadian research centre (AFP)

A scientist tests blood samples for HIV. Scientists have isolated two genes which may prevent people from contracting HIV or at least slow the rate at which they develop AIDS, a new study published in the journal AIDS has found.(AFP/File/Noah Seelam)AFP - Scientists have isolated two genes which may prevent people from contracting HIV or at least slow the rate at which they develop AIDS, a new study has found.


17 Jul 2008 2:40pm GMT