AFP - Forecasters issued a hurricane warning on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Dolly churned over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to grow into a hurricane within 24 hours near the Mexico-Texas border.
LiveScience.com - Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today. -- read full article
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.
AP - 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.
SPACE.com - As humans look farther into the universe and discover more
and more planets beyond the sun, many wonder how typical our own solar system
is. Often astronomers in the planet-hunting business say discoveries of
Earth-like worlds are just around the corner. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - A bundle bearing a mummy has been found in Peru's historic Huaura Valley. The mummy is thought to have been an elite member of the Chancay culture, a civilization that thrived in the central coast of Peru from about A.D. 1000 to 1400. -- read full article
AP - Idaho members of a group that advocates for the right to openly carry handguns in public are turning heads by touring Zoo Boise while packing guns on their hips. -- read full article
SPACE.com - A dwarf
planet circling the sun out beyond the orbit of Neptune has been rechristened
Makemake after a Polynesian god and designated the third of the solar system's
new class of plutoids, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced
Saturday. -- read full article
AP - Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.
Reuters - NASA has began unofficial negotiations
with Japan's space agency on purchasing units of an unmanned
cargo transfer spacecraft as the successor to its space
shuttles, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Sunday.
AP - Tropical Storm Cristobal skirted the North Carolina coast Sunday, dumping heavy rain and churning up rough surf, but so far sparing the seaboard of any severe weather.
LiveScience.com - Kevlar is great stuff. It's strong, lightweight and fire resistant,
making it an ideal material for suits worn by firefighters, police and
other emergency workers. It is used in everything from tires to body
armor. -- read full article
Reuters - NASA has began unofficial negotiations
with Japan's space agency on purchasing units of an unmanned
cargo transfer spacecraft as the successor to its space
shuttles, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Sunday.
