AP - A massive Hurricane Ike ravaged southeast Texas early Saturday, battering the coast with driving rain and ferocious wind gusts as residents who decided too late they should have heeded calls to evacuate made futile calls for rescue.
AP - It's not the best-researched global-warming theory, but it could be the most horrifying to certain fans of college football: Environmentalists said Friday that climate change might push the growing range of Ohio's iconic buckeye tree out of the state, leaving it for archrival Michigan.
AFP - Japan has given Kyoto University a patent for groundbreaking stem cell research in what is believed to be a world first for such scientific research, officials said Friday.
AFP - UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday touted his commitment to promoting alternative energy sources by commuting to work aboard a fully solar-powered taxi.
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
