AP - A surfer who put his fingers into the mouth of a shark to pry himself free during an attack believes the fish took no further interest in him because it didn't like the taste of his leg. -- read full article
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON
— A former NASA scientist has used radio waves to transmit solar power a
distance of 92 miles (148 km) between two Hawaiian islands, an achievement that
he says proves the technology exists to beam solar power from satellites back
to Earth. -- read full article
AFP - Officials pleaded Friday with thousands of diehard residents of the Texas coast to flee to escape "certain death" as powerful Hurricane Ike bore down on Houston, the fourth largest US city and a major oil hub.
LiveScience.com - Tiny ships loaded with a cargo that can identify and destroy
cancerous tumors are being tested on mice and could one day ply the
human bloodstream. -- read full article
Reuters - GlaxoSmithKline Plc's head of biotech
research is excited about a new generation of "slimline"
antibody medicines that may be successors to current
blockbusters such as Avastin and Rituxan.
Reuters - Thanks to a big stroke of luck 200
million years ago, dinosaurs beat out a fearsome group of
creatures competing for the right to rule the Earth, scientists
said on Thursday.
SPACE.com - The impact
of Hurricane Ike has reached out into space and delayed the planned Friday
arrival of Russian cargo ship at the International Space Station. -- read full article
AP - Authorities who seized scores of illegal African clawed frogs from Nevada residents say they have traced the creatures — banned because of their potential for ecological damage — to a company that sells tadpoles over the Internet. -- read full article
AP - Zoologists have captured the first photos of the okapi in the wild, saying Thursday they offered evidence that the animal once mistaken for a unicorn has managed to survive war and poaching in a park in a lawless swath of Congo.
AP - Hurricane Ike's gargantuan size — not its strength — will likely push an extra large storm surge inland in a region already prone to it, experts said Thursday.
AFP - The South African government Thursday approved trials on genetically-modified sorghum in a bid to improve nutrition in Africa, an official statement said.
