• Albino Gorilla Was Result of Inbreeding

  Snowflake the gorilla gained notoriety for being the only known albino of his species. Now the late ape is making headlines again over the recent postmortem discovery that he was ...

• New Female Astronauts Show Evolution of Women in Space

  NASA announced that eight new astronauts would be joining the U.S. space program. Of the eight new recruits, four are women--marking the first time NASA has selected an equal number of men and women for an incoming astronaut class. ...

• NASA Seeks Citizen Scientists’ Input to Capture Asteroid

  WASHINGTON, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – NASA wants to send a manned mission to an asteroid as early as 2021 but needs help from citizen scientists around the world to identify a suitable space rock to land on and explore, the US space agency said Tuesday. NASA scientists and space flight veterans invited everyone from students in Siberia to companies in Cleveland to submit ideas for ...

• Medieval bones yield 1000-year-old leprosy genome

  Mass graves of medieval leper colonies have yielded the oldest-ever full genome sequence of a human pathogen. The achievement opens the way for studies of even older leprosy bacteria and similarly ancient strains of tuberculosis - work that could reveal how the diseases became plagues, and perhaps help efforts to control and eradicate ...

• Prehistoric armoured fish had the worlds first abs

  The new fish fossils contain the oldest preserved muscles ever found. While most fossils only preserve the hard parts of animals, like bones and teeth, these fossil fish contain soft ...

• Space lotuses to touch down in Shanghai

  The 50 flowers of 13 varieties grown from seeds that traveled into space will be on show at Guyi Gardens on June 28. "The space lotuses will be a highlight, as many people are excited about the recent space mission," said Sun Jia, spokeswoman for the 500-year-old gardens in Jiading district. Sun added the best time to enjoy the show will be the full bloom period, which is expected to ...

• Stephen Harper targets Justin Trudeau over charity gigs

  Charity asks Justin Trudeau to return fee after event flops OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau showed poor judgment in taking money from charities, but didn't have much to say about his own office's role in pushing the story to media. "I get good remuneration from the taxpayers of Canada, as a public servant, I don't think it's ...

• Shouting matches reports of intimidation at Que. construction sites

  Quebec construction workers picket during the first day of their province wide stop work action in Gatineau, QC on June 17, 2103. (Andre Forget/QMI ...

• How Cities Compost Mountains of Food Waste

  announced a plan to increase composting of food scraps generated by the city's eight million inhabitants. In a few years, separation of food waste from other refuse could be required of residents, the mayor ...

• Mobster recounts murder for hire in Whitey Bulger trial

  Former mob boss and fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger, who was arrested in Santa Monica, California on June 22, 2011 along with his longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig is shown in this 2011 booking photo. (REUTERS/U.S. Marshals Service/U.S. Department of Justice/Handout via ...

• Photo Space centre’s projector to the stars prepares to semi-retire

  H.R. MacMillan Space Centre executive director Rob Appleton stands next to Harold, the star projector at the centre in Vancouver, on Monday. Harold, which has been in use since 1967, is semi-retiring, with its last full day of use being July 28. "Harold's going to go on vacation. After 45 years of only taking one day off a year, he's due for a vacation," Mr. Appleton told The ...

• Europe bids farewell to prolific Herschel space telescope

  This artist's illustration shows the European Space Agency's infrared Herschel Space Obsevatory set against a background image of the Vela C star-forming region. The space telescope launched in 2009 and ended its mission in ...

• China aims to slash its air pollution by 2017

  CHINA may soon breathe a little easier. The nation's State Council has announced strict measures to cut the amount of air pollution chucked out by industry by nearly a third by the end of ...

• Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change

  Between a quarter and a half of all birds, along with around a third of amphibians and a quarter of corals, are highly vulnerable to climate change. These findings have emerged from the most comprehensive assessment to date of the impact of global warming on life. Its results have led some researchers to warn of the need for unprecedented conservation efforts if we don't cut our ...

• Heartbeat used to generate out-of-body experience

  Watching a video of your own body pulsing in time with your heartbeat can trigger an out-of-body experience. The illusion shows that our experience of existing inside our body depends on both external and internal ...

• First glimpse of a single molecule dumping heat

  Now physicists have built a thermometer that can measure the slightest temperature change in circuits the size of a single molecule. The device could help realise the dream of electronics made from graphene, carbon nanotubes and other super-small ...

• UPDATE 3-Major natgas pipeline explodes in Louisiana area evacuated

  Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:21pm EDT * Part of Florida Gas Transmission line shut after explosion * Fifty-five residents evacuated * Florida gas prices up, in line with other regions By Edward McAllister and Eileen Houlihan June 18 (Reuters) - A major natural gas pipeline exploded on Tuesday in Washington Parish, Louisiana, destroying a mobile home and causing an evacuation of the area but no injuries ...

• Ocean Springs Offer Hint Of How Corals Will Respond To Ocean Acidification

  The density of coral skeletons will be reduced by ocean acidification due to rising carbon dioxide levels, according to an international group of scientists led by the University of California, Santa Cruz. The study, published ...

• Study Shows Dramatic Effects Of Predators On Carbon Cycle

  flow of carbon through an ecosystem, according to a new study from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The findings, published ...

• Climate Science Deniers Aren’t The Only Ones Using The Tobacco Industry Playbook

  Of course, it’s not like there is an infinite supply of anti-science guns for hire. So we see again some of the usual suspects. Climate Progress ...

• Canadians a silent threat to the U.S. blogger warns

  (Shutterstock) An open letter to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio warns that Canadians are a "silent threat" to the U.S. and shouldn't be allowed to stay in the state longer than six months. But many people who commented on the blog post in ...

• Experimenting with fireballs in space

  (Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET) Here on planet earth we're used to flames -- whether from a candle or campfire -- reaching upwards to the sky with slender limbs hungry for oxygen and driven by rising hot air. But in space, sans our planet's strong gravitational pull, flames are more likely to take the shape of eerie fireballs. Within the flame of a regular candle wick, ...

• Top Trips for Science Lovers

  Lovers of science, listen up: If you're tired of humdrum science museums filled with dusty models of the planets and boring films of volcanos on a continuous loop, there are a host of amazing places where you can see -- up close -- wondrous natural ...

• New NASA astronauts headed for destinations unknown

  a hearing on 19 June . Whatever the outcome, the overall training plans for the new astronaut corps will mostly stay the same, says Ellen Ochoa, director of the Johnson Space Center. Existing plans are already designed to teach astronauts how to prepare for a mission to ...

• Third of all UK honeybee hives wiped out in wet winter

  (Image: Stephen Dalton/Naturepl.com ) This lonely bee will be buzzing solo after British honeybees suffered their worst winter losses since records began in 2007. ...

• G8 leaders condemn Syrian violence

  Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (4th L) arrives for a group photo with (L-R) European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Barack Obama, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, France's President Francois Hollande, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italy's Prime Minister ...

• Montreal mayor ponders his future

  NDP at a loss to explain Mulcair's contradictions, silence about bribe attempt MONTREAL - Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum, accused of 14 corruption charges and facing calls from the premier to resign, is expected to announce Tuesday or Wednesday if he's quitting. Met by QMI Agency outside his home, where he was arrested Monday morning, the 50-year-old suspect said "we'll ...

• Project SOAR Swiss Space Plane Gaining Steam | Video

  Swiss Space Systems is developing a new private space shuttle designed to fly unmanned, and eventually manned, flights to suborbital space. See how aerospace veteran Thales Alenia Space will build the habitable section ...

• G8 build political will to overcome malnutrition

  The G8 has the information and tools to prioritise nutrition in development, but it will have to create the right political environment to hold true to ...

• Italian court says Knox murder acquittal had inconsistencies

  View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Amanda Knox (R) walks away holding hands with her mother Edda Mellas after a press conference at Sea-Tac International Airport, Washington after Knox landed there on a flight from Italy ...

• Googles Loon Project Puts Balloon Technology in Spotlight

  Google's Project Loon aims to bring remote parts of the globe online with a ring of floating balloons. The balloons will drift through the ...

• Virtual reality display lets fire crews see in a blaze

  When firefighters enter a burning building, they usually go in blind. Smoke often shrouds their view and it can be hard to know exactly where they are, or where the fire ...

• Worlds first baby born from natural IVF

  Say hello to Heath (pictured). He's the first baby in the world to be born using a new IVF technique that researchers hope will be safer for would-be ...

• New lease of life for hobbled planet-hunter Kepler

  Kepler space telescope may instead be entering early retirement, spending its golden years seeking out planets with a gravitational magnifying ...

• Space History Photo SR-71 Landing with Drag Chute

  In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, one of two initial U.S. Air Force SR-71A reconnaissance aircraft that was retired from operational service and loaned to NASA for high-speed research programs arrives at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California in January of 1990. The aircraft deployed its drag chute even before its nose gear touches the runway at the ...

• Ultraluminous Contortionist | Space Wallpaper

  The contorted object captured by Hubble in this cool space wallpaper is IRAS 22491-1808, also known as the South America Galaxy. It is an ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) that emits a huge amount of light at infrared wavelengths. The reason for this intense infrared emission lies in an episode of strong star formation activity, which was set off by a collision between two interacting ...

• New Tip From Mafia Informant Leads FBI To Jimmy Hoffa Hunt

  Jimmy Hoffa after a tip from 85-year-old Tony Zerilli, the son of former Detroit mob boss Joseph Zerilli, led them to the scene of the apparent crime. Zerilli alerted investigators in January that the former Teamsters boss, 62 at the time of his disappearance, was bound, gagged and struck over the head with a shovel before being buried alive on the property, with a slab of concrete placed over ...

• Fungus Spread By Bullfrogs Also Can Kill Some

  major cause for this decline is a fungus thought to be spread by bullfrogs. A two-year study from Oregon State and the University of Pittsburgh reveals bullfrogs are not only tolerant carriers that spread the disease, as previously thought. The bullfrogs are also dying from the pathogen. The research team raised bullfrogs from eggs in controlled experimental conditions. They found at least one ...

• Players over the moon - White

  Jake White lauded his Brumbies side after their stunning 14-12 win over the British and Irish Lions on Tuesday. Despite the Brumbies limited Test experience in comparison to their opponents, an early try for centre Tevita Kuridrani and three penalties from full-back Jesse Mogg were enough to hold off a Lions fightback.The loss was the Lions' first in a warm-up match since their defeat ...

• How deep space brightens our future

  The search to find the edge of the universe is having practical benefits on Earth. This is the message from European and African scientists who have teamed up, with the help of the European parliament in a radio astronomy platform that is going to expand humanity's knowledge of the cosmos and our place in it. By 2025, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be listening to the sounds of deep ...

• 3-year-old recovering after scary fall into crawl space

  OREGON CITY, Ore. - A three-year-old girl is in critical condition but improving after she fell into a crawl space at a home her mother was viewing with a real estate agent on Monday evening. The girl, who had been playing under the stairs of the Meyers Road home with her brother, fell five or six feet. She was knocked unconscious, briefly treated at the scene, then airlifted to Doernbecher ...

• Belarus Kazakhstan Russia want Ukraine in Common Economic Space

  KIEV, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Ukraine’s membership in the Common Economic Space will help make this association among the most powerful, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday at a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich. "The positions of the three states - Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia - coincide on both the Customs Union and the Common Economic ...

• In Global First Philippines to Destroy Its Ivory Stock

  On June 21 the Philippines will destroy five tons of seized ivory, becoming the world's first ivory-consuming nation to destroy its national ivory ...

• Drunk claims upset Ukraine parliament budget hearing

  Anatoly Myarkovsky (C), first deputy finance minister, delivers a speech while opposition deputies react next to speaker's rostrum during a session of the parliament in Kiev June 18, 2013. ...

• Kimberly-Clark moves to ease Venezuelan toilet paper shortage

  CARACAS (Reuters) - Kimberly-Clark Corp is planning a $234 million investment to expand operations in Venezuela, the state news agency said, in a move that should help ease an embarrassing national shortage of toilet ...

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