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Shuttle astronauts visit space station (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jul 6 2006 13:43

In this image made from NASA TV,the Space Shuttle Discovery's docking port is visible from a camera mounted on the International Space Station prior to the pair docking Thursday, July 6, 2006. ( AP Photo/NASA TV)AP - With smiles all around, the seven astronauts of the space shuttle Discovery entered the international space station Thursday, with one of them planning to stay behind when the shuttle returns to Earth in 10 days.


Discovery crew probes spaceship for launch damage (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jul 5 2006 21:18

This image made from NASA TV shows an photograph taken by astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery of divits on the shuttle's external fuel tank, outlined by white sqares, Wednesday, July 5, 2006. (AP Photo/NASA TV)Reuters - Astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery conducted a painstaking inspection of their spacecraft on Wednesday, using a sensor-laden robotic arm to look for damage after launch from Florida on a mission critical to the shuttle program's future.



7 green sea turtles gain independence (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jul 5 2006 20:44

In this photo provided by Mauna Lani Resort, One of seven endangered Hawaiian green sea turtles gets a little help as it is released into the wild for the first time Tuesday, July 4, 2006, at the Mauna Lani Resort on the Island of Hawaii. More than 800 people gathered to celebrate Turtle Independence Day, an annual event to aise awareness about the reptiles. An estimated crowd of 800 onlookers gathered along the coast fronting Mauna Lani Resort to watch as the turtles were escorted from the nearby saltwater ponds where they had been raised and ferried individually on white mesh stretcher toward the waves. (AP Photo/Mauna Lani Resort)AP - What's green, has 28 flippers and newfound freedom? The answer is seven young green sea turtles, or honu, launched into the wild Tuesday morning from a beach on the Big Island for what has been dubbed Turtle Independence Day.



"Silent quakes" may signal big temblors: study
Source: Reuters - Jul 5 2006 18:42
Silent earthquakes -- slow-moving events tracked by satellites measuring subtle changes on the earth's surface because they do not broadcast shock waves -- appear to build pressure on fault zones, contributing to weak magnitude-two and magnitude-three earthquakes, said Stanford geophysicist Paul Segall.


Bird droppings survive space launch (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jul 5 2006 17:39
AP - NASA's rocket scientists have a new appreciation for the out-of-this-world power of bird droppings. The orbiting space shuttle Discovery sported some whitish splotches on its black right wing edge that NASA officials said appeared to be bird droppings.

Scientists build theory on human face recognition
Source: Reuters - Jul 5 2006 14:48
And that probably goes for people, too, explaining how faces can be recognised in a fraction of a second, they said.


Daisy-shaped "starshade" may aid space exploration
Source: Reuters - Jul 5 2006 13:15
He and his team have designed a plastic "starshade" measuring 50 yards in diameter that would orbit in tandem with a trailing telescope and block out light from parent stars to enable scientists to map planetary systems.


Scientists study 1957 Fargo tornado (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jul 4 2006 22:44
AP - Scientists are piecing together a statistical profile of a devastating tornado that swept through this city nearly a half century ago.

Not since 1950: No twisters in central Neb. (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jul 4 2006 22:30
AP - Meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Hastings are feeling pretty lucky this year.

Bald eagles recovering across the country (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jul 4 2006 21:21
AP - When Pennsylvania officials began a campaign in 1983 to re-establish the state's bald eagle population, only three pairs of the birds and 12 eaglets remained here. Now there are more than 100 bald eagle nests in the state for the first time in over a century.

Foam still vexes NASA after fixes to shuttle (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jul 4 2006 15:50

John Shannon, deputy space shuttle program manager, waits to begin a press briefing at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida July 3, 2006. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)Reuters - It's been 3.5 years and hundreds of millions of dollars since the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated. Yet NASA faces the same vexing problem that doomed the orbiter.



Navy up against environmentalists (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jul 4 2006 15:44

This image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows melon-headed whales stranded in Hanalei Bay off the Hawaiian island of Kauai July 2, 2004. For the first time, the Navy will lower the power of its sonar during maritime exercises off Hawaii this summer as part of an effort to protect marine mammals. The move comes two years after more than 150 melon-headed whales became stranded in a Kauai bay while the last Rim of the Pacific exercises were held. (AP Photo/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, File)AP - While the Navy was staging war games and hunting down "enemy" submarines with sonar off the island of Kauai two summers ago, more than 150 lost and disoriented whales were swimming chaotically in the shallows of Hanalei Bay.



Whale concerns halt use of Navy sonar (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jul 3 2006 19:49
AP - A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the Navy from using a high-intensity sonar that could harm marine mammals during war games that began last week in the Pacific Ocean.

"Eau de human" repellent aims to deter mosquitos
Source: Reuters - Jul 3 2006 15:03
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are determined to even the score with mosquitoes by developing bug repellents using chemicals in human body odor that the insects hate.


Judge temporarily bars Navy use of sonar (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jul 3 2006 14:33
AP - A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday barring the Navy from using a type of sonar, allegedly harmful to marine mammals, during a Pacific warfare exercise scheduled to begin this week.

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