LiveScience.com - Hillary Rodham Clinton came close, but failed. Beyond the wrong turns pointed out by strategists, her political path this year was rooted in social biases, some scholars say. -- read full article
AP - NASA encouraged Europe on Thursday to develop its own manned spaceship, which would give the world — and particularly the U.S. — another way of reaching the international space station.
AP - Egyptian archaeologists unveiled on Thursday a 4,000-year-old "missing pyramid" that is believed to have been discovered by an archaeologist almost 200 years ago and never seen again.
Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made
energy a key focus of his first trip to western Europe on
Thursday, promising Germany closer energy cooperation and
offering Europe more say in Russian oil and gas deliveries.
AFP - A NASA spokesman on Thursday said that the launch of its GLAST space telescope, which will allow scientists to look deep into the universe, has been delayed until Wednesday June 11 at the earliest.
LiveScience.com - Big ideas come in small packages. In the case of Shewanella bacteria, the parcel is microscopic. But this tiny microbe could hold the keys to alternative energy production, toxic waste cleanup and, most surprising of all, how human bodies work. -- read full article
AP - Two astronauts stepped outside the international space station Thursday for a spacewalk to spruce up the orbiting outpost's newest room — a $1 billion Japanese lab.
The Christian Science Monitor - Besides gasoline, the Department of Energy calculates, there are 57 major uses of petroleum – everything from cosmetics to ballpoint pens, nylons, and even the waxes in chewing gum. -- read full article
Reuters - Flash floods caused by tropical
storm Arthur have killed at least five people in southeastern
Belize, including a toddler, the government of the tiny Central
American country said on Wednesday. -- read full article
AP - General Electric Co., the international conglomerate with a stake in everything from jet engines to network television, is investing $20 million in technology that will allow doctors to share and transmit images of microscopic human tissue. -- read full article
AP - Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.
