Shuttle on Schedule for Saturday Launch -
Both weather and technology seem to be cooperating for launching the space shuttle Discovery on Saturday to begin a mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle, with its crew of seven astronauts, is scheduled to blast off at 5:02 Saturday...
Phoenix Lander Talks to Twitterers -
NASA
Whoever thought a NASA spacecraft could be so adept at social networking and Web 2.0?
For users of Twitter, a Web microblogging service, the Phoenix Mars lander has been sending pithy news “tweets” to the cellphones and c...
Italy Plans to Resume Building Atomic Plants -
ROME — Italy announced Thursday that within five years it planned to resume building nuclear energy plants, two decades after a public referendum resoundingly banned nuclear power and deactivated all its reactors.
“By the end of this...
Everglades Park Counts the Good and the Bad After a Blaze -
REDLAND, Fla. — Rick Anderson, the fire management officer for Everglades National Park, stood in the burnt grass where the largest fire in 19 years began here last week and assessed the costs and benefits.
Barbara P. Fernandez
T...
Brazil Rainforest Analysis Sets Off Political Debate -
SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS, Brazil — Gilberto Câmara, a scientist who leads Brazil’s national space agency, is more at ease poring over satellite data of the Amazon than being thrust into the spotlight.
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...How Green Is the College? Time the Showers -
David Maxwell
Appliances have been unplugged in a house at Oberlin College.
OBERLIN, Ohio — Lucas Brown, a junior at Oberlin College here, was still wet from the shower the other morning as he entered his score on the neon green me...
Vital Signs - Risks - Study Ties Dirty Air to Blood Clots in Legs -
Exposure to air pollution increases the risk for deep vein thrombosis, the blood clots that commonly occur in the leg veins. And the worse the air pollution, the higher the risk.
Researchers studied 871 D.V.T. patients in the Lombardy region of...
