Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/753 Science News en-us Mon, 12 May 2008 06:37:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/753 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_sc/shuttle_recovered_data ap/20080510/shuttle_recovered_data AP Sat, 10 May 2008 05:03:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_sc/shuttle_recovered_data"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.32ff9fafbb834d97ac6f56434562e616.shuttle_recovered_data_nybz135.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=1ttvO0hUtnGj2i8EvXoHjA--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="In this photo provided by Kroll Ontrack Inc., a data drive that fell from the space shuttle Columbia when it was destroyed in 2003 is shown. During Columbia's fateful final mission, the drive had been used to capture data from a scientific experiment on the way xenon gas flows. (AP Photo/Kroll Ontrack Inc.)" border="0" /></a>AP - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_sc/shuttle_recovered_data"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.32ff9fafbb834d97ac6f56434562e616.shuttle_recovered_data_nybz135.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=1ttvO0hUtnGj2i8EvXoHjA--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="photo" title="In this photo provided by Kroll Ontrack Inc., a data drive that fell from the space shuttle Columbia when it was destroyed in 2003 is shown. During Columbia's fateful final mission, the drive had been used to capture data from a scientific experiment on the way xenon gas flows. (AP Photo/Kroll Ontrack Inc.)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_re_us/cemetery_reef ap/20080510/cemetery_reef AP Sat, 10 May 2008 10:06:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_re_us/cemetery_reef"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080510/capt.nyol56705101002.reef_memorial_nyol567.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=Z_dHpKNQQTnhOdSzR87kjQ--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="A pair of porkfish and sergeant major fish swim near a section of the Neptune Memorial Reef 45 feet under the surface Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 3.25 miles off the coast of Key Biscayne, Fla. Creators of the reef hope it will become a memorial for the dead and a diving site. Instead of a burial funeral, people can pay to have their remains placed in one the reef's structures after their death. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)" border="0" /></a>AP - About 45 feet beneath the ocean's surface lies a cemetery with gates, pathways, plaques and even benches.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_re_us/cemetery_reef"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080510/capt.nyol56705101002.reef_memorial_nyol567.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=Z_dHpKNQQTnhOdSzR87kjQ--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="A pair of porkfish and sergeant major fish swim near a section of the Neptune Memorial Reef 45 feet under the surface Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 3.25 miles off the coast of Key Biscayne, Fla. Creators of the reef hope it will become a memorial for the dead and a diving site. Instead of a burial funeral, people can pay to have their remains placed in one the reef's structures after their death. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_sc/campaigning_scientists ap/20080509/campaigning_scientists AP Fri, 09 May 2008 22:11:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_sc/campaigning_scientists"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.023b6e5a4ebb4c80a19368e6c523ce17.campaigning_scientists_dchg101.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=muUh8SlZOosA6NSW8TKpvA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Paul Bunje a Californian who earned his doctorate studying snail evolution is photographed, Friday, May 9, 2008, in Washington. On Saturday he heads back to school to learn a trickier task: How to get elected to public office. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)" border="0" /></a>AP - Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task — getting elected to public office.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_sc/campaigning_scientists"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.023b6e5a4ebb4c80a19368e6c523ce17.campaigning_scientists_dchg101.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=muUh8SlZOosA6NSW8TKpvA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Paul Bunje a Californian who earned his doctorate studying snail evolution is photographed, Friday, May 9, 2008, in Washington. On Saturday he heads back to school to learn a trickier task: How to get elected to public office. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_sc/dissolving_bodies ap/20080509/dissolving_bodies AP Fri, 09 May 2008 21:41:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_sc/dissolving_bodies"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.b3918e86fe484930a28e5bc4345d1602.dissolving_bodies_con101.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=Ao7JvUJ0pEMbZDW7qyOVog--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Brad Crain, president of BioSafe Engineering, stands by one of the company's steel cylinders in Brownsburg, Ind. Monday April 7, 2008. Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option using one of these cyclinders is generating interest: dissolving bodies. (AP Photo Michael Conroy)" border="0" /></a>AP - Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest — dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_sc/dissolving_bodies"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.b3918e86fe484930a28e5bc4345d1602.dissolving_bodies_con101.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=Ao7JvUJ0pEMbZDW7qyOVog--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="Brad Crain, president of BioSafe Engineering, stands by one of the company's steel cylinders in Brownsburg, Ind. Monday April 7, 2008. Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option using one of these cyclinders is generating interest: dissolving bodies. (AP Photo Michael Conroy)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080511/sc_livescience/frogsgoultrasonicforsex livescience/20080511/frogsgoultrasonicforsex LiveScience.com Sun, 11 May 2008 17:41:06 GMT LiveScience.com - Keep the racket down, I'm trying to find a mate! That could be the plea of nocturnal Chinese tree frogs, which have developed unique, high-frequency vocal skills to make themselves heard by potential mates in their noisy habitat. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/ts_alt_afp/usweathertornado afp/20080512/usweathertornado AFP Mon, 12 May 2008 06:01:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/ts_alt_afp/usweathertornado"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndo36.120508080136.photo00.photo.default-377x512.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=95xzrZXnJ3RjNkjQ_0Hwqg--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="Graphic showing the three states battered by tornadoes in the US at the weekend. US authorities rushed aid to disaster areas Monday after a series of tornadoes tore across the United States, killing at least 23 people and shattering homes and businesses.(AFP Graphic)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US authorities rushed aid to disaster areas Monday after a series of tornadoes tore across the United States, killing at least 23 people and shattering homes and businesses.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/ts_alt_afp/usweathertornado"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndo36.120508080136.photo00.photo.default-377x512.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=95xzrZXnJ3RjNkjQ_0Hwqg--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="Graphic showing the three states battered by tornadoes in the US at the weekend. US authorities rushed aid to disaster areas Monday after a series of tornadoes tore across the United States, killing at least 23 people and shattering homes and businesses.(AFP Graphic)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/ts_afp/japanusspace afp/20080512/japanusspace AFP Mon, 12 May 2008 06:37:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/ts_afp/japanusspace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndo58.120508083526.photo00.photo.default-359x512.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=grErEcKFP1xQ9U_L7JpwrA--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="The US Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off. The human race will find life elsewhere in the universe as it pushes ahead with space exploration, astronauts back from the latest US space mission said(AFP/File/NICHOLAS KAMM)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The human race will find life elsewhere in the universe as it pushes ahead with space exploration, astronauts back from the latest US space mission said Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/ts_afp/japanusspace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndo58.120508083526.photo00.photo.default-359x512.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=grErEcKFP1xQ9U_L7JpwrA--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="photo" title="The US Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off. The human race will find life elsewhere in the universe as it pushes ahead with space exploration, astronauts back from the latest US space mission said(AFP/File/NICHOLAS KAMM)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/sc_nm/australia_shark_dc nm/20080512/australia_shark_dc Reuters Mon, 12 May 2008 03:08:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/sc_nm/australia_shark_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080512/2008_05_12t031622_450x308_us_australia_shark.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=WMBXvjw0crpawYOScHDDPw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A great white shark swims past a diving cage off Gansbaai about 200 kilometers east of Cape Town in this undated file photo. (File/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An Australian swimmer survived a great white shark attack by poking the creature in the eyes as it dragged him through the water after badly savaging his left leg.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/sc_nm/australia_shark_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080512/2008_05_12t031622_450x308_us_australia_shark.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=WMBXvjw0crpawYOScHDDPw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A great white shark swims past a diving cage off Gansbaai about 200 kilometers east of Cape Town in this undated file photo. (File/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/argentina_dinosaur_eggs ap/20080505/argentina_dinosaur_eggs AP Mon, 05 May 2008 23:57:32 GMT AP - A senior U.S. Homeland Security official is in Argentina to discuss money laundering, human trafficking — and dinosaur eggs. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/sc_afp/norwayenergyalternativewind afp/20080511/norwayenergyalternativewind AFP Sun, 11 May 2008 18:07:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/sc_afp/norwayenergyalternativewind"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080511/capt.cps.ndl82.110508200433.photo00.photo.default-512x342.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=O5e1LyXcsyCsWAEDZIbRsA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="The twenty windmills at Smoela on the nothwestern coast of Norway. As Norway prepares for a future after oil, the gale-force potential of harvesting wind power off its long coastline has become an increasingly attractive proposition.(AFP/File/Bjoern Sigurdsoen)" border="0" /></a>AFP - As Norway prepares for a future after oil, the gale-force potential of harvesting wind power off its long coastline has become an increasingly attractive proposition.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/sc_afp/norwayenergyalternativewind"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080511/capt.cps.ndl82.110508200433.photo00.photo.default-512x342.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=O5e1LyXcsyCsWAEDZIbRsA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="The twenty windmills at Smoela on the nothwestern coast of Norway. As Norway prepares for a future after oil, the gale-force potential of harvesting wind power off its long coastline has become an increasingly attractive proposition.(AFP/File/Bjoern Sigurdsoen)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/sc_afp/inflationpovertyfoodasiagm afp/20080511/inflationpovertyfoodasiagm AFP Sun, 11 May 2008 17:58:58 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/sc_afp/inflationpovertyfoodasiagm"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080511/capt.cps.ndl78.110508195824.photo00.photo.default-512x329.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=GCjNbcPS5FGdPkc24JZnrQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="A researcher inspects rice specimens inside a Philippines rice gene bank in Los Banos, south of Manila on May 2. With food prices hitting record highs the debate in Asia about whether genetically modified crops can ensure food security remains unsettled(AFP/File/Jes Aznar)" border="0" /></a>AFP - With food prices hitting record highs the jury is still out in Asia as to whether genetically modified crops hold the key to future food security.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/sc_afp/inflationpovertyfoodasiagm"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080511/capt.cps.ndl78.110508195824.photo00.photo.default-512x329.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=GCjNbcPS5FGdPkc24JZnrQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="A researcher inspects rice specimens inside a Philippines rice gene bank in Los Banos, south of Manila on May 2. With food prices hitting record highs the debate in Asia about whether genetically modified crops can ensure food security remains unsettled(AFP/File/Jes Aznar)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)