Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/science science Science News en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:24:08 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/science http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sc/us_space_shuttle ap/20100210/us_space_shuttle AP science Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:06:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sc/us_space_shuttle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.699b1652c1694cc89922bf8708a652a5.aptopix_space_shuttle_ksc120.jpg?x=78&y=130&q=85&sig=YR09K4BXESNhiS3TTJyC7Q--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="Space shuttle Endeavour lifts-off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Endeavour is carrying six astronauts who will deliver a room and observation deck to the International Space Station. A piece of foam insulation is seen falling to the right of the orbiter. (AP Photo/John Raoux)" border="0" /></a>AP - Endeavour zoomed toward a midnight rendezvous with the International Space Station late Tuesday, and NASA grew ever more optimistic that the shuttle is free of any launch damage.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sc/us_space_shuttle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.699b1652c1694cc89922bf8708a652a5.aptopix_space_shuttle_ksc120.jpg?x=78&y=130&q=85&sig=YR09K4BXESNhiS3TTJyC7Q--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="photo" title="Space shuttle Endeavour lifts-off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Endeavour is carrying six astronauts who will deliver a room and observation deck to the International Space Station. A piece of foam insulation is seen falling to the right of the orbiter. (AP Photo/John Raoux)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_sc/us_sci_climate_service ap/20100208/us_sci_climate_service AP science Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:41:13 GMT AP - The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100207/ap_on_re_as/as_india_missile_test ap/20100207/as_india_missile_test AP world Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:39:40 GMT AP - India again successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable missile Sunday that can hit targets across much of Asia and the Middle East, a defense ministry press release said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100210/sc_livescience/loudmusiclinkedtopoundingheadaches livescience/20100210/loudmusiclinkedtopoundingheadaches LiveScience.com science Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:55:40 GMT LiveScience.com - If you want a pounding headache, crank up loud music for an hour or two. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/sc_afp/unclimatewarminguschinaindia afp/20100210/unclimatewarminguschinaindia AFP science Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:24:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/sc_afp/unclimatewarminguschinaindia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265768405685-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=fPkXhwCbOsaqyhnVaHHi0w--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A shroud of haze is seen over the city of Zengzhou in central China's Henan province in November 2009. The United States pressed China, India and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year's Copenhagen accord risked being "stillborn."(AFP/File/Peter Parks)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United States pressed China, India and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year's Copenhagen accord risked being "stillborn."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/sc_afp/unclimatewarminguschinaindia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265768405685-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=fPkXhwCbOsaqyhnVaHHi0w--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="A shroud of haze is seen over the city of Zengzhou in central China's Henan province in November 2009. The United States pressed China, India and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year's Copenhagen accord risked being "stillborn."(AFP/File/Peter Parks)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/ts_nm/us_toyota nm/20100209/us_toyota Reuters science Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:17:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/ts_nm/us_toyota"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r3136313318.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=gRxTr4jx7S1lIoKKFLMrVg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Toyota Motor Corp's managing director Yuji Yokoyama (C) bows after submitting a document of a recall to an official of the Transport Ministry, Ryuji Masuno (L), at the Transport Ministry in Tokyo February 9, 2010. Toyota Motor Corp is recalling nearly half a million of its flagship Prius and other hybrid cars for braking problems, a third major recall since September and a further blow to the reputation of the world's largest automaker. REUTERS/Toru Hanai" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The spiraling crisis at Toyota Motor Corp deepened on Tuesday as the automaker said it would recall thousands of Camry sedans as well as nearly half a million new Prius and other hybrid cars to fix steering and braking problems.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/ts_nm/us_toyota"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r3136313318.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=gRxTr4jx7S1lIoKKFLMrVg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Toyota Motor Corp's managing director Yuji Yokoyama (C) bows after submitting a document of a recall to an official of the Transport Ministry, Ryuji Masuno (L), at the Transport Ministry in Tokyo February 9, 2010. Toyota Motor Corp is recalling nearly half a million of its flagship Prius and other hybrid cars for braking problems, a third major recall since September and a further blow to the reputation of the world's largest automaker. REUTERS/Toru Hanai" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100209/sc_space/shuttleendeavourclosesinonspacestation space/20100209/shuttleendeavourclosesinonspacestation SPACE.com science Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:16:10 GMT SPACE.com - The space shuttle Endeavour is closing in on the International Space Station carrying six astronauts and NASA's last big additions for the orbiting laboratory more than 200 miles above Earth. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/hl_nm/us_cancer_lung_mutations nm/20100210/us_cancer_lung_mutations Reuters health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:38:10 GMT Reuters - Lung cancer is often dramatically different in women than it is in men, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday in another study that suggests ways to tailor treatment for cancer patients. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100207/ap_on_sc/us_pharmawater_landfills ap/20100207/us_pharmawater_landfills AP health Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:24:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100207/ap_on_sc/us_pharmawater_landfills"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.149d66ccc93b43cbbd6409f00ea72f96.pharmawater_landfills_merb104.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=vvPY8yD8LjYcFkNt5VuhrQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A man dumps a bag of trash at the town landfill, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, in Bath, Maine. The Kennebec River can be seen n the background. Discarded drugs have been found in water at this land fill and two others in Mane, confirming suspicions that medications thrown into household trash are ending up in water that drains through waste, according to the state's environmental agency. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)" border="0" /></a>AP - The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from Maine suggests.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100207/ap_on_sc/us_pharmawater_landfills"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.149d66ccc93b43cbbd6409f00ea72f96.pharmawater_landfills_merb104.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=vvPY8yD8LjYcFkNt5VuhrQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man dumps a bag of trash at the town landfill, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, in Bath, Maine. The Kennebec River can be seen n the background. Discarded drugs have been found in water at this land fill and two others in Mane, confirming suspicions that medications thrown into household trash are ending up in water that drains through waste, according to the state's environmental agency. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_china_panda_rescue ap/20100209/as_china_panda_rescue AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:55:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_china_panda_rescue"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.830d9e74759f4f2f872bacc070bf4c56.china_panda_xvt101.jpg?x=84&y=130&q=85&sig=eRQmDJYuY8f0aA8pO0X15w--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="A panda eats bamboo in Beijing Zoo in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)" border="0" /></a>AP - It was like getting a cat out of a tree &mdash; Sichuan style.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_china_panda_rescue"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.830d9e74759f4f2f872bacc070bf4c56.china_panda_xvt101.jpg?x=84&y=130&q=85&sig=eRQmDJYuY8f0aA8pO0X15w--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="photo" title="A panda eats bamboo in Beijing Zoo in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/ts_afp/chinasciencepaleontologydinosaurs afp/20100207/chinasciencepaleontologydinosaurs AFP topstories Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:55:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/ts_afp/chinasciencepaleontologydinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100207/capt.photo_1265521712029-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=NgRGu3519_OqmSye.ZICHw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A mound strewn with dinosaur bones is seen October 2009 in Zhucheng, in northeast China's Shandong province. Paleontologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Archaeologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/ts_afp/chinasciencepaleontologydinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100207/capt.photo_1265521712029-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=NgRGu3519_OqmSye.ZICHw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A mound strewn with dinosaur bones is seen October 2009 in Zhucheng, in northeast China's Shandong province. Paleontologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_toxic_town ap/20100210/us_toxic_town AP science Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:17:22 GMT AP - State health officials said Tuesday they found nothing unusual about the rate of infant birth defects in an impoverished San Joaquin Valley farm town located next to the West's largest toxic waste dump. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_weatherpage_weather ap/20100209/us_weatherpage_weather AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:05:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_weatherpage_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.38dcde98fd434e7db262e876eaf787a5.weather_national_ny1.jpg?x=123&y=130&q=85&sig=C1I4zZ8PyI64sZzbEUiE2g--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="The Weather Underground forecast for Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, shows a winter storm will move into the East, producing swaths of rain in the Southeast and mixed precipitation in the Eastern Valleys and the Mid-Atlantic. Out West, a strong storm will hit the West Coast with another round of coastal rain and mountain snow.(AP Photo/Weather Underground)" border="0" /></a>AP - Snowy weather was expected to move into the Eastern U.S. from the Plains on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_weatherpage_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.38dcde98fd434e7db262e876eaf787a5.weather_national_ny1.jpg?x=123&y=130&q=85&sig=C1I4zZ8PyI64sZzbEUiE2g--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="photo" title="The Weather Underground forecast for Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, shows a winter storm will move into the East, producing swaths of rain in the Southeast and mixed precipitation in the Eastern Valleys and the Mid-Atlantic. Out West, a strong storm will hit the West Coast with another round of coastal rain and mountain snow.(AP Photo/Weather Underground)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100209/sc_space/saturnsmoondoesharboranoceannewevidencesuggests space/20100209/saturnsmoondoesharboranoceannewevidencesuggests SPACE.com science Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:45:58 GMT SPACE.com - Icy plumes of water vapor erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus have left scientists divided over whether a liquid ocean lies hidden beneath the icy surface. Now evidence from a 2008 plume fly-through by NASA's Cassini spacecraft has turned up short-lived water ions that suggest liquid water does indeed exist inside the moon. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100210/hl_hsn/genesplayroleinprognosiswithnonsmallcelllungcancers hsn/20100210/genesplayroleinprognosiswithnonsmallcelllungcancers HealthDay health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:10 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. scientists have discovered there are genetic profiles that play a part in prognosis with non-small cell lung cancers, and those profiles differ depending on the age and gender of the patient. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_power_plant_explosion_witness ap/20100209/us_power_plant_explosion_witness AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:48:10 GMT AP - A worker who was in a Connecticut power plant when it exploded on Sunday tells The Associated Press there was a smell of natural gas in the plant less than an hour before the blast. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/ts_nm/us_weather_usa nm/20100210/us_weather_usa Reuters topstories Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:38:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/ts_nm/us_weather_usa"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r4040336112.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=9JKhnsJ4jFzL7Ahf1cYbmA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Cars drive in single file down the normally four lane-wide 18th Street NW in downtown Washington, February 8, 2010. The federal government announced it would remain closed on Monday and most schools planned to shut down as residents of the mid-Atlantic struggled to dig out from a blizzard that dumped two feet of snow on the region. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The second major snowstorm in less than a week hit the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday, with predictions of 12 inches or more stretching from Washington, D.C., to New York City, forcing schools to close and the U.S. Congress to sharply curtail legislative action.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/ts_nm/us_weather_usa"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r4040336112.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=9JKhnsJ4jFzL7Ahf1cYbmA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Cars drive in single file down the normally four lane-wide 18th Street NW in downtown Washington, February 8, 2010. The federal government announced it would remain closed on Monday and most schools planned to shut down as residents of the mid-Atlantic struggled to dig out from a blizzard that dumped two feet of snow on the region. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)