AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans Wednesday to sign a deal to build a U.S. missile defense base on Polish soil, an agreement that has already prompted an infuriated Russia to threaten its former Soviet satellite.
AP - President Bush says he sees "hopeful signs of progress" in New Orleans three years after Hurricane Katrina's devastation, while acknowledging the city is still struggling to recover.
AP - Scientists say they've found an efficient way to make red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, a possible step toward making transfusion supplies in the laboratory. The promise of a virtually limitless supply is tantalizing because of blood donor shortages and disappointments in creating blood substitutes. -- read full article
AP - A space-age version of the rusty springs under old pickup trucks will help NASA fix the most pressing technical problem with its high-tech new rocket to send astronauts back to the moon.
AFP - Venezuela will propose production cuts at the next OPEC meeting in September if oil prices continue to fall, Energy and Petroleum Minister Rafael Ramirez said Tuesday.
Reuters - About 60 newly hatched sea turtles lost
their way during their ritual passage to the sea and marched
into an Italian restaurant instead, a conservation worker said
on Monday.
SPACE.com - PONTE
VEDRA, Fla. - The third and last Inmarsat 4 mobile-broadband satellite was
successfully placed into orbit Tuesday by an International Launch Services
(ILS) Proton Breeze M rocket, ILS and Inmarsat announced. -- read full article
Reuters - Tropical Storm Fay swept into southwest
Florida from the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, dumping heavy rain
but causing little damage after failing to strengthen into a
hurricane as forecasters had predicted.
LiveScience.com - Dips in the sun's activity have triggered centuries-long droughts in eastern North America, according to a new study that examined the geologic record stored within a stalagmite from a West Virginia cave.
The link between periodic droughts and changes in solar activity initially was proposed by geologist Gerald Bond. He suggested that every 1,500 years, weak solar activity caused by fluctuations in the sun's magnetic fields cooled the North Atlantic Ocean and created more icebergs and ice rafting, or the movement of sediment to the ocean floor. ... -- read full article
AP - The United States can capture the world's imagination by creating an energy independent state, territory or nation, former President Bill Clinton told an energy summit.
AP - Scientists say they've found an efficient way to make red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, a possible step toward making transfusion supplies in the laboratory. -- read full article
SPACE.com - NASA's
space shuttle Atlantis will have to wait a few more days before leaving its
Florida spaceport hangar in order to avoid severe weather expected from
Tropical Storm Fay.
