LiveScience.com - Some insects live much of their lives under water, using air bubbles
gathered at the surface to survive. Now scientists have discovered just
how deep they can go. -- read full article
AP - Finally, China had an act of nature it could celebrate. After an Olympic year of freakish natural disasters, crowds of Chinese watched a total solar eclipse along the country's ancient Silk Road on Friday, one week before the start of the Summer Games in Beijing.
Reuters - The South Korean government on Friday
barred disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk from resuming his
research into cloned human embryonic stem cells. -- read full article
AP - Barack Obama is once again betting that his eloquence can persuade price-weary consumers — read that as voters — to take the long view and not jump at a short-term fix when it comes to soaring energy prices.
AP - A dog at a southeast Kansas zoo has adopted three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother. Safari Zoological Park owner Tom Harvey said the tiger cubs were born Sunday, but the mother had problems with them.
AFP - NASA scientists have said that the Phoenix lander exploring Mars has confirmed water on the planet after analysis of a soil sample from the Red planet's surface.
LiveScience.com - A spate of construction crane incidents has brought an ongoing builders' issue to public awareness, according to Phillip Ezzell, a former crane operator and now CEO of Crane Safety Associates of America. -- read full article
AP - Using a new technique to reprogram cells, scientists are growing neurons from people with Lou Gehrig's disease, a possible first step in understanding how the deadly illness develops. -- read full article
AP - Star light, star bright. The first star grew fast, but began slight. The first cosmological object formed in the universe was a tiny protostar with a mass of about 1 percent of our sun, according to U.S. and Japanese researchers who spent years developing a complex computer simulation of what it was like after the Big Bang that formed the universe. -- read full article
AFP - Bristol-Myers Squibb, the US pharmaceuticals group, said Thursday it has offered to buy its biotechnology partner ImClone Systems in an all-cash deal worth around 4.5 billion dollars.
AP - Less costly methods for producing oxygen from water have been developed by researchers in the U.S. and Australia, possibly setting the stage for more use of fuel cells to produce energy. -- read full article
AP - A dog at a southeast Kansas zoo has adopted three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother. Safari Zoological Park owner Tom Harvey said the tiger cubs were born Sunday, but the mother had problems with them.
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON —
Former U.S. Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), the first American to orbit the Earth,
criticized President George W. Bush for directing NASA to set a course for the Moon
and not following through with the promised funding. -- read full article
