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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1689 Most Emailed - Science en-us Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:11:49 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1689 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080820/sc_livescience/sixthtastediscoveredcalcium livescience/20080820/sixthtastediscoveredcalcium LiveScience.com Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:02:22 GMT LiveScience.com - Here's the new taste sensation - your tongue might be able to taste calcium. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080821/sc_livescience/howpeacocksgottheircolorfultails livescience/20080821/howpeacocksgottheircolorfultails LiveScience.com Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:11:49 GMT LiveScience.com - The male peacock's tail was a vexing problem for the father of evolutionary theory, Charles Darwin, who struggled to explain why the bird should have such a seemingly burdensome trait. Darwin finally struck upon the idea of sexual selection, which posits that extravagant traits like the peacock's colorful fan of feathers provided an advantage in the competition for mates that outweighed other disadvantages. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080819/sc_livescience/americandietsmaylackvitamind livescience/20080819/americandietsmaylackvitamind LiveScience.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:11:40 GMT LiveScience.com - A friend recently told me about how his uncle had heard that garlic could help lower his high blood pressure. So the uncle generously added garlic salt to his diet. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080819/sc_livescience/churchattendanceboostsstudentgpas livescience/20080819/churchattendanceboostsstudentgpas LiveScience.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:05:52 GMT LiveScience.com - If you want to boost your teenager's grade point average, take the kid to church. Or, a new study suggests, find some similar social activity to involve them in. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/sc_afp/nzealandscienceanimalsquid afp/20080821/nzealandscienceanimalsquid AFP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:39:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/sc_afp/nzealandscienceanimalsquid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080821/capt.cps.niw62.210808093321.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=PJcebI8EZ_3e.V.HehYrKw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Graphic on the biggest squid ever captured. New Zealand's mysterious colossal squid, the largest of the feared and legendary species ever caught, was not the T-Rex of the oceans but a lethargic blob, new research suggests.(AFP/Mm/Ea/Js)" border="0" /></a>AFP - New Zealand's mysterious colossal squid, the largest of the feared and legendary species ever caught, was not the T-Rex of the oceans but a lethargic blob, new research suggests.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/sc_afp/nzealandscienceanimalsquid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080821/capt.cps.niw62.210808093321.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=PJcebI8EZ_3e.V.HehYrKw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Graphic on the biggest squid ever captured. New Zealand's mysterious colossal squid, the largest of the feared and legendary species ever caught, was not the T-Rex of the oceans but a lethargic blob, new research suggests.(AFP/Mm/Ea/Js)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_sc/mexico_endangered_porpoise ap/20080821/mexico_endangered_porpoise AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:49:29 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_sc/mexico_endangered_porpoise"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.47b2e90c87b54698ad9d3cd4d72b4e03.mexico_endangered_porpoise_mxga102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=INwnvOGE6Mf0oxttCJ8pCw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this undated photo released by Proyecto Vaquita, a porpoise is seen trapped in a fishing net at the Gulf of California. Mexico is investing $16 million (163 million pesos) to save a highly endangered porpoise from fishing nets trolling its habitat in the upper Gulf of California. The effort drew praise from scientists who believe the population of the 'vaquita marina,' Spanish for 'little sea cow,' has dwindled to 150 or less from more than 500 a decade ago. (AP Photo/C.Faesi/Proyecto Vaquita)" border="0" /></a>AP - Mexico said Wednesday it will invest 163 million pesos ($16 million) to save a highly endangered species of porpoise in the upper Gulf of California, asking reluctant fishermen to adopt safer methods or give up their trade entirely.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_sc/mexico_endangered_porpoise"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.47b2e90c87b54698ad9d3cd4d72b4e03.mexico_endangered_porpoise_mxga102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=INwnvOGE6Mf0oxttCJ8pCw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this undated photo released by Proyecto Vaquita, a porpoise is seen trapped in a fishing net at the Gulf of California. Mexico is investing $16 million (163 million pesos) to save a highly endangered porpoise from fishing nets trolling its habitat in the upper Gulf of California. The effort drew praise from scientists who believe the population of the 'vaquita marina,' Spanish for 'little sea cow,' has dwindled to 150 or less from more than 500 a decade ago. (AP Photo/C.Faesi/Proyecto Vaquita)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_sc/iran_space_flight ap/20080821/iran_space_flight AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:07:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_sc/iran_space_flight"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080817/capt.f948c035e76e4b279f9b17a61ae0ba81.iran_rocket_test_vah102.jpg?x=130&y=106&q=85&sig=ltl89M.pKhvpvQTLMGkAlg--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="A Saturday Aug. 16, 2008 photo taken at an undisclosed location in Iran which the Fars News Agency claim shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second right, looking at an Iranian satellite launching vehicle. Iran has test launched a rocket it plans to use to carry a research satellite into orbit, state television reported Sunday. Saturday's test of the two-stage rocket, called the Safir-e Omid, or Ambassador of Peace, was successful, state TV said, broadcasting images of the nighttime launch. The rocket released equipment that beamed flight data back to ground control, said Reza Taghipoor, the head of Iran's Space Agency, in a live television interview. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Vahid Reza Alaei)" border="0" /></a>AP - State TV says Iran's space agency aims to send an astronaut to space within 10 years.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_sc/iran_space_flight"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080817/capt.f948c035e76e4b279f9b17a61ae0ba81.iran_rocket_test_vah102.jpg?x=130&y=106&q=85&sig=ltl89M.pKhvpvQTLMGkAlg--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Saturday Aug. 16, 2008 photo taken at an undisclosed location in Iran which the Fars News Agency claim shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second right, looking at an Iranian satellite launching vehicle. Iran has test launched a rocket it plans to use to carry a research satellite into orbit, state television reported Sunday. Saturday's test of the two-stage rocket, called the Safir-e Omid, or Ambassador of Peace, was successful, state TV said, broadcasting images of the nighttime launch. The rocket released equipment that beamed flight data back to ground control, said Reza Taghipoor, the head of Iran's Space Agency, in a live television interview. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Vahid Reza Alaei)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/sc_nm/hongkong_typhoon_dc nm/20080821/hongkong_typhoon_dc Reuters Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:52:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/sc_nm/hongkong_typhoon_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080821/2008_08_21t075139_450x339_us_hongkong_typhoon.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=eqBibJfVopS_J5bL2oqNXw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Residents push a truck stuck along a flooded street in Manila August 20, 2008. (Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A typhoon that killed four people in the northern Philippines is headed for Hong Kong and will lash the city by Friday, weather forecasts said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/sc_nm/hongkong_typhoon_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080821/2008_08_21t075139_450x339_us_hongkong_typhoon.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=eqBibJfVopS_J5bL2oqNXw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="Residents push a truck stuck along a flooded street in Manila August 20, 2008. (Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080821/sc_livescience/mummifiedicemansancientjobdetermined livescience/20080821/mummifiedicemansancientjobdetermined LiveScience.com Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:11:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080821/sc_livescience/mummifiedicemansancientjobdetermined"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080820/capt.cps.nit54.200808203057.photo00.photo.default-512x329.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=HnWmLm5Hu9P.bDnWA2QyDQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Methods used to crack the dress code of Oetzi, the iceman mummy, seen here in 1998, whose mummified remains turned up in an Alpine glacier almost two decades ago, could be a boon to the clothing industry, a new study showed Wednesday.(AFP/APA/File)" border="0" /></a>LiveScience.com - Before his body froze and mummified, a now-famous Neolithic guy dubbed the Iceman took his last steps while donned in a coat and leggings made of sheep's fur and moccasins made of cattle leather. That was more than 5,000 years ago.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080821/sc_livescience/mummifiedicemansancientjobdetermined"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080820/capt.cps.nit54.200808203057.photo00.photo.default-512x329.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=HnWmLm5Hu9P.bDnWA2QyDQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="Methods used to crack the dress code of Oetzi, the iceman mummy, seen here in 1998, whose mummified remains turned up in an Alpine glacier almost two decades ago, could be a boon to the clothing industry, a new study showed Wednesday.(AFP/APA/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (LiveScience.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080821/sc_livescience/whoppingfishdeclarednewspecies livescience/20080821/whoppingfishdeclarednewspecies LiveScience.com Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:11:31 GMT LiveScience.com - A man-sized grouper that trolls the tropical waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean for octopuses and crabs has been identified as a new fish species after genetic tests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080820/sc_livescience/howbubblewrapcouldpowerthefuture livescience/20080820/howbubblewrapcouldpowerthefuture LiveScience.com Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:03:47 GMT LiveScience.com - Editor's Note: Each Wednesday LiveScience examines the viability of emerging energy technologies - the power of the future. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080819/sc_nm/magpies_mirror_dc nm/20080819/magpies_mirror_dc Reuters Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:03:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080819/sc_nm/magpies_mirror_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080819/2008_08_18t204519_450x364_us_magpies_mirror.jpg?x=130&y=105&q=85&sig=0OYqot9cux_eBE8.KjlbwQ--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="A magpie with yellow mark used in a mirror self-recognition experiment. Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, highlighting the mental skills of some birds and confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals. (Institute of Psychology, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, highlighting the mental skills of some birds and confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080819/sc_nm/magpies_mirror_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080819/2008_08_18t204519_450x364_us_magpies_mirror.jpg?x=130&y=105&q=85&sig=0OYqot9cux_eBE8.KjlbwQ--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="photo" title="A magpie with yellow mark used in a mirror self-recognition experiment. Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, highlighting the mental skills of some birds and confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals. (Institute of Psychology, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Handout/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_sc/climate_conference ap/20080820/climate_conference AP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:47:07 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_sc/climate_conference"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080821/capt.cps.niw41.210808090948.photo02.photo.default-512x381.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=.z8ND8sbdxizhB1blPv2yg--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="A group of office workers prepare to burn ritual paper money outside their office in Taipei, August 11, as offerings to appease the spirits during the "Ghost Month" -- the seventh month on the lunar calendar which falls in August this year.(AFP/Patrick Lin)" border="0" /></a>AP - Negotiators meet in Ghana this week to resume work on a new climate change treaty and discuss ways to prod developing countries to join the fight against global warming.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_sc/climate_conference"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080821/capt.cps.niw41.210808090948.photo02.photo.default-512x381.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=.z8ND8sbdxizhB1blPv2yg--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="A group of office workers prepare to burn ritual paper money outside their office in Taipei, August 11, as offerings to appease the spirits during the "Ghost Month" -- the seventh month on the lunar calendar which falls in August this year.(AFP/Patrick Lin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080820/sc_afp/usspacearesrocketorion afp/20080820/usspacearesrocketorion AFP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:17:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080820/sc_afp/usspacearesrocketorion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080820/capt.cps.nit92.200808221626.photo00.photo.default-512x327.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=_53EBCMFrCOAqxPUrnUPrA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="NASA and Boeing officials pose for a photo before of a model of an Ares I rocket in Wasington, DC, in 2007. NASA say they will use shock-absorbers similar to those used in cars to fix a problem with heavy vibrations in the new Ares rocket, to give astronauts inside the Orion crew capsule a smoother ride.(AFP/NASA/File/Bill Ingalls)" border="0" /></a>AFP - NASA say they will use shock-absorbers similar to those used in cars to fix a problem with heavy vibrations in the new Ares rocket, to give astronauts inside the Orion crew capsule a smoother ride.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080820/sc_afp/usspacearesrocketorion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080820/capt.cps.nit92.200808221626.photo00.photo.default-512x327.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=_53EBCMFrCOAqxPUrnUPrA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="NASA and Boeing officials pose for a photo before of a model of an Ares I rocket in Wasington, DC, in 2007. NASA say they will use shock-absorbers similar to those used in cars to fix a problem with heavy vibrations in the new Ares rocket, to give astronauts inside the Orion crew capsule a smoother ride.(AFP/NASA/File/Bill Ingalls)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/sc_nm/space_magnet_dc nm/20080820/space_magnet_dc Reuters Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:40:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/sc_nm/space_magnet_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.8fcff950ddce4d81ba3e2496512ecd94.aptopix_space_hubble_perseus_galaxy_ny114.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=p6gINEuZV75VF4MopPNavA--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="This composite image provided by NASA Wednesday Aug. 20, 2008 shows the active galaxy NGC 1275 (Perseus A). X-ray data from the Chandra's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer and radio data from NRAO's Very Large Array were combined with optical wavelengths in the red, green and blue from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. In the composite image, the X-ray data contribute to the soft violet shells around the outside of the center. The pinkish lobes toward the center of the galaxy are from radio frequencies. The radio emission, tracing jets from the black hole, fills the X-ray cavities. Dust lanes, star-forming regions, hydrogen filaments, foreground stars, and background galaxies are contributions from the Hubble optical data. The Hubble Space Telescope has found the answer to a long-standing puzzle by seeing the details of giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. (AP Photo/NASA)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Giant magnetic tentacles are the force that keeps a lacy pattern of glowing gas filaments in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1275 from evaporating in the surrounding hot gas or collapsing under the weight of their own gravity, British astronomers said on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/sc_nm/space_magnet_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.8fcff950ddce4d81ba3e2496512ecd94.aptopix_space_hubble_perseus_galaxy_ny114.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=p6gINEuZV75VF4MopPNavA--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="This composite image provided by NASA Wednesday Aug. 20, 2008 shows the active galaxy NGC 1275 (Perseus A). X-ray data from the Chandra's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer and radio data from NRAO's Very Large Array were combined with optical wavelengths in the red, green and blue from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. In the composite image, the X-ray data contribute to the soft violet shells around the outside of the center. The pinkish lobes toward the center of the galaxy are from radio frequencies. The radio emission, tracing jets from the black hole, fills the X-ray cavities. Dust lanes, star-forming regions, hydrogen filaments, foreground stars, and background galaxies are contributions from the Hubble optical data. The Hubble Space Telescope has found the answer to a long-standing puzzle by seeing the details of giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. (AP Photo/NASA)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080820/sc_afp/usenvironmenteconomy afp/20080820/usenvironmenteconomy AFP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:49:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080820/sc_afp/usenvironmenteconomy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080820/capt.cps.nit26.200808194747.photo00.photo.default-354x512.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=vYVMHcsl6icnkkeVgvZaqg--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit at the Cox Pavilion at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 19.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a renewable energy program for New York city that would include placing windmills on city bridges, solar panels on skyscrapers, and the use of tidal, geothermal and nuclear energy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080820/sc_afp/usenvironmenteconomy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080820/capt.cps.nit26.200808194747.photo00.photo.default-354x512.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=vYVMHcsl6icnkkeVgvZaqg--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="photo" title="New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit at the Cox Pavilion at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 19.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080821/sc_livescience/booksstillrivalmoviesforstirringemotions livescience/20080821/booksstillrivalmoviesforstirringemotions LiveScience.com Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:25:28 GMT LiveScience.com - Books are just as powerful as movies when it comes to their potential to prod our brains into such reactions as delight, pain and disgust, new research suggests. In fact, reading any printed or electronic words, for instance, about someone unknowingly drinking a glass of sour milk is just as likely to make you gag as watching that scene in "There's Something About Mary," when the title character puts the, er, bodily fluid that she thinks is hair gel into her hair, the study finds. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080820/sc_livescience/thesciencebehindrefrigeratedbabysmiraclerevival livescience/20080820/thesciencebehindrefrigeratedbabysmiraclerevival LiveScience.com Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:11:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080820/sc_livescience/thesciencebehindrefrigeratedbabysmiraclerevival"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080819/capt.9dd8ade4fcfc442b96127275bc8e8a7a.mideast_israel_palestinians_baby_reborn_jrl801.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=PSQ9EeqnKrxjJiHswVfbQQ--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Fayza Majdoub stands next to an incubator holding her premature baby girl who survived six hours in a hospital morgue refrigerator after being declared stillborn in the Nahariya hospital in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. The baby had been delivered in the 23rd week of pregnancy at a weight of just one pound, five ounces and was initially declared dead and placed in the morgue. When the parents came to collect the tiny body for burial on Monday they found the baby breathing and showing a faint heartbeat and she was rushed to the intensive care unit. Hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said the child died early Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. He told Israeli Army Radio the specific cause of death would only be known after a post-mortem examination. (AP Photo/Tomer Neuberg, Jini)" border="0" /></a>LiveScience.com - The seemingly miraculous revival of a newborn baby that had initially been pronounced dead and refrigerated in Israel is raising eyebrows among scientists and doctors.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080820/sc_livescience/thesciencebehindrefrigeratedbabysmiraclerevival"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080819/capt.9dd8ade4fcfc442b96127275bc8e8a7a.mideast_israel_palestinians_baby_reborn_jrl801.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=PSQ9EeqnKrxjJiHswVfbQQ--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="Fayza Majdoub stands next to an incubator holding her premature baby girl who survived six hours in a hospital morgue refrigerator after being declared stillborn in the Nahariya hospital in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. The baby had been delivered in the 23rd week of pregnancy at a weight of just one pound, five ounces and was initially declared dead and placed in the morgue. When the parents came to collect the tiny body for burial on Monday they found the baby breathing and showing a faint heartbeat and she was rushed to the intensive care unit. Hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said the child died early Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. He told Israeli Army Radio the specific cause of death would only be known after a post-mortem examination. (AP Photo/Tomer Neuberg, Jini)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (LiveScience.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080818/ap_on_sc/sci_counting_without_numbers ap/20080818/sci_counting_without_numbers AP Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:01:56 GMT AP - Answer this without counting: Are there more X's here XXXXXX, or here XXXXX? That's a problem facing people whose languages don't include words for more than one or two. Yet researchers say children who speak those languages are still able to compare quantities.