Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/753 science Science News en-us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:19:12 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/753 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/us_sci_shrinking_sheep ap/20090702/us_sci_shrinking_sheep AP science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:14:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/us_sci_shrinking_sheep"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246561787308-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=9md6RMfZwpJTXcPB7XudFA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Soay sheep are seen in France in 2004. Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday. The wild Soay sheep live on Hirta, in the St. Kilda archipelago in the storm-battered Outer Hebrides, and have been closely studied for nearly a quarter of a century.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/us_sci_shrinking_sheep"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246561787308-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=9md6RMfZwpJTXcPB7XudFA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="Soay sheep are seen in France in 2004. Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday. The wild Soay sheep live on Hirta, in the St. Kilda archipelago in the storm-battered Outer Hebrides, and have been closely studied for nearly a quarter of a century.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_sci_nasa_spanish_twitter ap/20090702/us_sci_nasa_spanish_twitter AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:45:29 GMT AP - NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He'll tweet from space in Spanish and English. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/as_sci_myanmar_primate_fossil ap/20090702/as_sci_myanmar_primate_fossil AP science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:00:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/as_sci_myanmar_primate_fossil"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.7fbe361f96c64488be6fb18bb5b9de7b.myanmar_primate_fossil_paks401.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=0uLkmvm0wEJ.A5Uj89w3_w--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="This image, provided by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, is an artist's conception what they call a life reconstruction of Ganlea megacanina by Mark A. Klingler. Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday,July 1. 2009. Fossils - which the scientists dubbed Ganlea megacanina - came from 10 to 15 individuals of a new species that belonged to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known as Amphipithecidae. (AP Photo/Carnegie Museum of Natural History/Mark A. Klingler)" border="0" /></a>AP - Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/as_sci_myanmar_primate_fossil"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.7fbe361f96c64488be6fb18bb5b9de7b.myanmar_primate_fossil_paks401.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=0uLkmvm0wEJ.A5Uj89w3_w--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="This image, provided by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, is an artist's conception what they call a life reconstruction of Ganlea megacanina by Mark A. Klingler. Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday,July 1. 2009. Fossils - which the scientists dubbed Ganlea megacanina - came from 10 to 15 individuals of a new species that belonged to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known as Amphipithecidae. (AP Photo/Carnegie Museum of Natural History/Mark A. Klingler)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090702/sc_livescience/thestrangeingredientsinfireworks livescience/20090702/thestrangeingredientsinfireworks LiveScience.com science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:50:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090702/sc_livescience/thestrangeingredientsinfireworks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.b85669eccfdf469b8680df6a2cb5d10c.frugal_fourth_waet203.jpg?x=130&y=76&q=85&sig=5YGnWDzm7T4hHgZTchehug--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="This June 30, 2009 photo shows Justin Yelle carrying fireworks for a customer at 'Boom City,' a collection of fireworks stands on the Tulalips Tribes' reservation near Marysville, Wash. The operators of thousands of fireworks stands on Indian reservations and in parking lots throughout the country are hoping patriotism, tradition and a strong need to party will translate to a billion dollars and more burning a collective hole in America's pockets. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)" border="0" /></a>LiveScience.com - Fireworks for the 4th of July are all about light, color and sound. But inside, there are some bizarre ingredients, from aluminum to Vaseline and even the stuff of rat poison.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090702/sc_livescience/thestrangeingredientsinfireworks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.b85669eccfdf469b8680df6a2cb5d10c.frugal_fourth_waet203.jpg?x=130&y=76&q=85&sig=5YGnWDzm7T4hHgZTchehug--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="photo" title="This June 30, 2009 photo shows Justin Yelle carrying fireworks for a customer at 'Boom City,' a collection of fireworks stands on the Tulalips Tribes' reservation near Marysville, Wash. The operators of thousands of fireworks stands on Indian reservations and in parking lots throughout the country are hoping patriotism, tradition and a strong need to party will translate to a billion dollars and more burning a collective hole in America's pockets. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (LiveScience.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/climatewarmingsheep afp/20090702/climatewarmingsheep AFP science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:10:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/climatewarmingsheep"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246561787308-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=9md6RMfZwpJTXcPB7XudFA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Soay sheep are seen in France in 2004. Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday. The wild Soay sheep live on Hirta, in the St. Kilda archipelago in the storm-battered Outer Hebrides, and have been closely studied for nearly a quarter of a century.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/climatewarmingsheep"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246561787308-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=9md6RMfZwpJTXcPB7XudFA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="Soay sheep are seen in France in 2004. Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday. The wild Soay sheep live on Hirta, in the St. Kilda archipelago in the storm-battered Outer Hebrides, and have been closely studied for nearly a quarter of a century.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/climateusenergypoliticstradechina afp/20090702/climateusenergypoliticstradechina AFP science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:00:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/climateusenergypoliticstradechina"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246532336661-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=Uiv78txQlD8zPhhL2jgI4w--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Chinese cyclists pass through thick pollution from a factory in Yutian.(AFP/Peter Parks)" border="0" /></a>AFP - China said on Thursday that it was "firmly" opposed to provisions in a new US clean energy bill that will make it easier to impose trade penalties on nations that reject limits to globe-warming pollution.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/climateusenergypoliticstradechina"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246532336661-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=Uiv78txQlD8zPhhL2jgI4w--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="Chinese cyclists pass through thick pollution from a factory in Yutian.(AFP/Peter Parks)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/sc_nm/us_pope_science nm/20090702/us_pope_science Reuters science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:11:27 GMT Reuters - The Catholic Church should not fear scientific progress and possibly repeat the mistake it made when it condemned astronomer Galileo in the 17th century, a Vatican official said on Thursday in a rare self-criticism. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthflujapanresistance afp/20090702/healthflujapanresistance AFP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:19:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthflujapanresistance"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246560774549-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=76&q=85&sig=MoazxBh4daYCNtJeyhqjaA--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="Boxes of the antiviral drug Tamiflu prescribed for influenza A (H1N1). A genetic mutation of swine flu that is resistant to the anti-viral Tamiflu has been discovered in Japan, the first such case in the country, the health ministry said.(AFP/File/Carlos Jasso)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A genetic mutation of swine flu that is resistant to the anti-viral Tamiflu has been discovered in Japan, the first such case in the country, the health ministry said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthflujapanresistance"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246560774549-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=76&q=85&sig=MoazxBh4daYCNtJeyhqjaA--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="photo" title="Boxes of the antiviral drug Tamiflu prescribed for influenza A (H1N1). A genetic mutation of swine flu that is resistant to the anti-viral Tamiflu has been discovered in Japan, the first such case in the country, the health ministry said.(AFP/File/Carlos Jasso)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/eu_endangered_species ap/20090702/eu_endangered_species AP science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:02:36 GMT AP - Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world's coral reef species, a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals, a leading environmental group warned Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/indonesiaenvironmentwildlifeanimal afp/20090702/indonesiaenvironmentwildlifeanimal AFP science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:15:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/indonesiaenvironmentwildlifeanimal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246544407516-1-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=fqIQfPNJyg.DNhwl5EMVJw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="A Sumatran elephant (Elephant maximus Sumatranus) with her one day old baby at Taman Safari in Bogor, seen here in 2003. An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May. There are about 2,400 to 2,800 Sumatran elephants in Indonesia, of which 200 to 250 are in Riau, according to WWF.(AFP/File/Adek Berry)" border="0" /></a>AFP - An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May, environmental group WWF said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/indonesiaenvironmentwildlifeanimal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246544407516-1-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=fqIQfPNJyg.DNhwl5EMVJw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="A Sumatran elephant (Elephant maximus Sumatranus) with her one day old baby at Taman Safari in Bogor, seen here in 2003. An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May. There are about 2,400 to 2,800 Sumatran elephants in Indonesia, of which 200 to 250 are in Riau, according to WWF.(AFP/File/Adek Berry)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/ts_alt_afp/scienceusreligionevolution afp/20090630/scienceusreligionevolution AFP us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:40:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/ts_alt_afp/scienceusreligionevolution"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090630/capt.photo_1246368919264-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=UCyFbQAbZGYBZ8WPA2vFQQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Ken A. Ham President and Chief Executive Officer of Answer in Genesis stands with a mechanical Utahraptor at The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, in 2007. For a group of paleontologists, a tour of the Creation Museum, which has been dubbed a "creationist Disneyland," seemed like a great tongue-in-cheek way to cap off a serious conference.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)" border="0" /></a>AFP - For a group of paleontologists, a tour of the Creation Museum seemed like a great tongue-in-cheek way to cap off a serious conference.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/ts_alt_afp/scienceusreligionevolution"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090630/capt.photo_1246368919264-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=UCyFbQAbZGYBZ8WPA2vFQQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Ken A. Ham President and Chief Executive Officer of Answer in Genesis stands with a mechanical Utahraptor at The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, in 2007. For a group of paleontologists, a tour of the Creation Museum, which has been dubbed a "creationist Disneyland," seemed like a great tongue-in-cheek way to cap off a serious conference.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/spainnuclearenergyenvironmentpolitics afp/20090702/spainnuclearenergyenvironmentpolitics AFP science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:51:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/spainnuclearenergyenvironmentpolitics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246560656643-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=BVDEBKBbUs6OvvGEAlxG1g--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="Workers of the Garona nuclear plant demonstrate, holding banners reading "Garona is safe" in front of the Moncloa Palace, residence of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, in Madrid on June 26, 2009. Spain's government said it would allow the country's oldest nuclear reactor to operate beyond its intended 40-year lifespan, reversing a policy of gradually phasing out nuclear power.(AFP/File/Pedro Armestre)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Spain's government said Thursday it would allow the country's oldest nuclear reactor to operate beyond its intended 40-year lifespan, reversing a policy of gradually phasing out nuclear power.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/spainnuclearenergyenvironmentpolitics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246560656643-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=BVDEBKBbUs6OvvGEAlxG1g--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="Workers of the Garona nuclear plant demonstrate, holding banners reading "Garona is safe" in front of the Moncloa Palace, residence of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, in Madrid on June 26, 2009. Spain's government said it would allow the country's oldest nuclear reactor to operate beyond its intended 40-year lifespan, reversing a policy of gradually phasing out nuclear power.(AFP/File/Pedro Armestre)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_weatherpage_weather ap/20090702/us_weatherpage_weather AP science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:27:14 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/20090701/capt.b499801214744b86b3fbe9d6747a7507.weather_national_ny4.jpg?x=123&y=130&q=85&sig=0oGEBid9xSPpRvabiDU3og--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="The forecast for noon, Thursday, July 2, 2009 shows rain and thunderstorms will continue across the Northeast and Great Lakes as a large low pressure system remains in place. Strong to severe storms are likely to develop over portions of the Plains, while unsettled weather continues in Florida. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Eastern U.S. was expected to continue seeing severe storm development on Thursday from a slow-moving low pressure system hovering over the Great Lakes region.</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/20090701/capt.b499801214744b86b3fbe9d6747a7507.weather_national_ny4.jpg?x=123&y=130&q=85&sig=0oGEBid9xSPpRvabiDU3og--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="photo" title="The forecast for noon, Thursday, July 2, 2009 shows rain and thunderstorms will continue across the Northeast and Great Lakes as a large low pressure system remains in place. Strong to severe storms are likely to develop over portions of the Plains, while unsettled weather continues in Florida. (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/20090702/sc_space/detailsofsnowfallonmarsexplained space/20090702/detailsofsnowfallonmarsexplained SPACE.com science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:31:24 GMT SPACE.com - The planet Mars conjures images of red rocks and arid, dusty plains, but as NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander showed last year, it snows on Mars. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_research ap/20090702/us_med_swine_flu_research AP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:03:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_research"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.911dc8a160b04620868479cfeba3d71e.argentina_swine_flu_bai108.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=_LBWDcYtKsk_iK_7cbH2gw--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="A physician holds samples of patients suspected of being infected with swine flu at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Health authorities have warned that while the swine flu peak has passed in Mexico, the Southern Hemisphere is at risk as it heads deeper into its winter flu season as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Pontoriero)" border="0" /></a>AP - With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is — so far — more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_research"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.911dc8a160b04620868479cfeba3d71e.argentina_swine_flu_bai108.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=_LBWDcYtKsk_iK_7cbH2gw--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="A physician holds samples of patients suspected of being infected with swine flu at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Health authorities have warned that while the swine flu peak has passed in Mexico, the Southern Hemisphere is at risk as it heads deeper into its winter flu season as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Pontoriero)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/india_nm/india407519 nm/20090702/india407519 Reuters world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:05:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/india_nm/india407519"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/ra2825479171.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=GmP_90rrd4DjJWJ5U5CDqg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Cars wait in queue at a petrol station in Kolkata July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal" border="0" /></a>Reuters - India should end controls on prices of petrol and diesel and allow entry for private and foreign firms in the energy sector, a finance ministry survey said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/india_nm/india407519"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/ra2825479171.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=GmP_90rrd4DjJWJ5U5CDqg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="Cars wait in queue at a petrol station in Kolkata July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/wl_nm/us_nino_australia nm/20090701/us_nino_australia Reuters world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:02:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/wl_nm/us_nino_australia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/r184320509.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=5yaAfg9tcx7bK5ju_g3Y9w--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Office workers walk past a mural of a drought scene in the business district of Melbourne July 1, 2008. REUTERS/Mick Tsikas" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An El Nino weather pattern this year appears almost certain, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said on Wednesday in a revised forecast, raising the prospect of drought in Australia and a even weaker monsoon in India.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/wl_nm/us_nino_australia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/r184320509.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=5yaAfg9tcx7bK5ju_g3Y9w--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="Office workers walk past a mural of a drought scene in the business district of Melbourne July 1, 2008. REUTERS/Mick Tsikas" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)