AP - The newest space station addition, a giant Japanese science lab, is about to get bigger. After installing TV cameras and removing covers during a spacewalk Thursday, the astronauts at the linked shuttle and station got ready for their next challenge: attaching a storage shed to the bus-size lab. The 210-mile construction job was set for Friday afternoon.
AP - More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name — with the help of volunteers.
AFP - Cairn India, a unit of British exploration firm Cairn Energy Plc, has secured rights to explore oil and natural gas deposits off Sri Lanka's coast, the island's petroleum minister said Friday.
AP - The U.S. military intercepted a ballistic missile Thursday in the first such sea-based test since a Navy cruiser shot down an errant satellite earlier this year.
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
