http://www.mail.com/subjects/88-science.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/88-science.html http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862306-nasa-marks-10-years-loss-columbia-crew.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Schoolchildren joined NASA managers and relatives of the lost crew of space shuttle Columbia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy and remember the seven astronauts who died. More than 300 people gathered at Kennedy Space Center for the outdoor ceremony, just a few miles from where Columbia was supposed to land ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862306-nasa-marks-10-years-loss-columbia-crew.html 2013-02-01T21:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1862654-harkin-campaign-aide-iowa-donor-list.html IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's campaign fundraiser gave Iowa State University a list of possible donors to his namesake research institute, records show, though university officials have promised the powerful Democrat would have no influence over the center. The Harkin Institute of Public Policy would house the papers of the senator, who re... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1862654-harkin-campaign-aide-iowa-donor-list.html 2013-02-01T20:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1861730-apnewsbreak-feds-warming-imperils-wolverines.html BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving carnivore sometimes called the "mountain devil," could soon join the list of species threatened by climate change — a dubious distinction putting it in the ranks of the polar bear and several other animals the government says will lose crucial habitat as temperatures rise. Federal wildlife offi... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1861730-apnewsbreak-feds-warming-imperils-wolverines.html 2013-02-01T22:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861808-space-shuttle-doomed-you-tell-crew.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A NASA top official wrestled with what he thought was a hypothetical question: What should you tell the astronauts of a doomed space shuttle Columbia? When the NASA official raised the question in 2003 just days before the accident that claimed seven astronauts' lives, managers thought — wrongly — that Columbia's heat shield was fine. It... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861808-space-shuttle-doomed-you-tell-crew.html 2013-02-01T13:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858368-syria-threatens-retaliation-israeli-airstrike.html BEIRUT (AP) — Syria threatened Thursday to retaliate for an Israeli airstrike and its ally Iran said the Jewish state will regret the attack. Syria sent a letter to the U.N. Secretary-General stressing the country's "right to defend itself, its territory and sovereignty" and holding Israel and its supporters accountable. "Israel and those who protect it a... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858368-syria-threatens-retaliation-israeli-airstrike.html 2013-01-31T22:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1859622-sacrificial-skull-mound-mexico-puzzles-experts.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — Archaeologists say they have turned up about 150 skulls of human sacrifice victims in a field in central Mexico, one of the first times that such a large accumulation of severed heads has been found outside of a major pyramid or temple complex in Mexico. Experts are puzzled by the unexpected find of such a large number of skulls at what... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1859622-sacrificial-skull-mound-mexico-puzzles-experts.html 2013-01-31T21:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858508-iran-will-speed-up-nuclear-program.html VIENNA (AP) — In a defiant move ahead of nuclear talks, Iran has announced plans to vastly increase its pace of uranium enrichment, which can make both reactor fuel and the fissile core of warheads. Eager to avoid scuttling those negotiations, world powers are keeping their response low-key. Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency of its intentio... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:44:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858508-iran-will-speed-up-nuclear-program.html 2013-01-31T20:44:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1860206-space-shuttle-columbia-what-happened-10-years-ago.html Ten years ago Friday, the space shuttle Columbia was destroyed and its seven astronauts killed during the final minutes of its flight. NASA will mark the 10th anniversary of the accident at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, and take part in an observance at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, where three of the astronauts are buried. ... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1860206-space-shuttle-columbia-what-happened-10-years-ago.html 2013-01-31T20:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1859392-great-white-shark-moves-to-northeast.html CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — It seems Mary Lee's winter vacation in the sunny South is over. The 3,500-pound great white shark headed north after spending weeks off the Southeast coast. Mary Lee, one of only two great whites ever tagged in the North Atlantic, got as far south as Jacksonville Beach, Fla., several weeks ago. But in recent days, she's made a bee ... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1859392-great-white-shark-moves-to-northeast.html 2013-01-31T17:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1850556-correction-europe-science-bonanza-story.html BRUSSELS (AP) — In a story Jan. 28 about a European Union science award, The Associated Press reported erroneously that €1 billion euros was equivalent to $1.34 million. The correct conversion is that €1 billion euros equals $1.34 billion. A corrected version of the story is below: 2 science projects win up to $1.3 billion each European projects to model ... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1850556-correction-europe-science-bonanza-story.html 2013-01-31T15:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855516-skorea-satellite-working-normally-sending-data.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The first satellite launched from South Korean soil is working normally, officials said Thursday, a day after Seoul achieved its space milestone during a time of high tensions over archrival North Korea's recent threat to test a third nuclear device. A South Korean rocket carrying the satellite blasted off from a launch pad Wedne... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855516-skorea-satellite-working-normally-sending-data.html 2013-01-31T03:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1858050-nasa-launches-communication-satellite.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA launched a new communication satellite Wednesday to stay in touch with its space station astronauts and relay more Hubble telescope images. An unmanned Atlas V rocket blasted into the starry night sky carrying the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. This is the 11th TDRS satellite to be launched by NASA. The space agency us... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1858050-nasa-launches-communication-satellite.html 2013-01-31T02:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1857170-ten-years-loss-space-shuttle-columbia.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — He was just 8 when NASA lost the space shuttle Columbia and he lost his astronaut mom. Now, 10 years later, Iain Clark is a young man on the cusp of college with a master's rating in scuba diving and three parachute jumps in his new log book. His mother, Dr. Laurel Clark, loved scuba and skydiving. So did her flight surgeon hus... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1857170-ten-years-loss-space-shuttle-columbia.html 2013-01-30T23:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1855778-green-thumb-wash-pot-consultant.html TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Wanted: A green thumb with extensive knowledge of the black, or at least gray, market. As Washington state tries to figure out how to regulate its newly legal marijuana, officials are hiring an adviser on all things weed: how it's best grown, dried, tested, labeled, packaged and cooked into brownies. Sporting a mix... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:01:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1855778-green-thumb-wash-pot-consultant.html 2013-01-30T22:01:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1857286-mixed-decision-phony-scrolls-email-appeal.html NEW YORK (AP) — Evidence in a rare Internet impersonation case showed that a highly educated defendant broke the law by trying to "damage the careers and livelihoods" of scholars caught up in an academic debate about the Dead Sea Scrolls, a New York appeals court ruled in a mixed decision made public Wednesday. The Appellate Division's First Department th... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1857286-mixed-decision-phony-scrolls-email-appeal.html 2013-01-30T19:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855658-ibm-sends-watson-to-ny-college-to-boost-skills.html TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Watson, the supercomputer famous for beating the world's best human "Jeopardy!" champions, is going to college. IBM is announcing Wednesday that it will provide a Watson system to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first time the computer is being sent to a university. Just like the flesh-and-blood students who will work on it, Watson... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855658-ibm-sends-watson-to-ny-college-to-boost-skills.html 2013-01-30T10:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855198-santa-maria-mourns-dead-calls-justice.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The young law student sat alone in a pew, clutching a shirt on which she'd written the names of friends she'd lost in a weekend nightclub fire in this Brazilian college town. It was grubby and wrinkled, as Halana Pinheiro Rubim alternately smoothed it out on her knees, tracing out the names, then clutched it and cried. "Luiza Al... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855198-santa-maria-mourns-dead-calls-justice.html 2013-01-29T23:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1853788-genetics-explain-severe-flu-chinese-people.html LONDON (AP) — A genetic variant commonly found in Chinese people may help explain why some got seriously ill with swine flu, a discovery scientists say could help pinpoint why flu viruses hit some populations particularly hard and change how they are treated. Less than one percent of Caucasians are thought to have the gene alteration, which has previously... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1853788-genetics-explain-severe-flu-chinese-people.html 2013-01-29T15:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1852894-cadavers-honored-med-student-dissection-lab.html GARY, Ind. (AP) — When medical students have finished their study and practice on cadavers, they often hold a respectful memorial service to honor these bodies donated to science. But the ceremonies at one medical school have a surreal twist: Relatives gather around the cold steel tables where their loved ones were dissected and which now hold their remai... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1852894-cadavers-honored-med-student-dissection-lab.html 2013-01-29T07:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1850680-iran-monkey-space.html TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A gray-tufted monkey strapped in a pod resembling an infant's car seat rode an Iranian rocket into space and returned safely, officials said Monday in what was described as a step toward Tehran's goal of a manned space flight. The mission also touched on concerns that advances in Iran's rocket expertise could be channeled into military... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1850680-iran-monkey-space.html 2013-01-28T19:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1849928-teachers-flip-flipped-learning-class-model.html SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — When Timmy Nguyen comes to his pre-calculus class, he's already learned the day's lesson — he watched it on a short online video prepared by his teacher for homework. So without a lecture to listen to, he and his classmates at Segerstrom Fundamental High School spend class time doing practice problems in small groups, taking quizz... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1849928-teachers-flip-flipped-learning-class-model.html 2013-01-27T22:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1849492-study-distant-rural-areas-feel-cities-heat.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Heat rising up from cities such as New York, Paris and Tokyo might be remotely warming up winters far away in some rural parts of Alaska, Canada, and Siberia, a surprising study theorizes. In an unusual twist, that same urban heat from buildings and cars may be slightly cooling the autumns in much of the Western United States, Eastern Eu... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1849492-study-distant-rural-areas-feel-cities-heat.html 2013-01-27T17:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1848758-japan-launches-2-intelligence-satellites.html TOKYO (AP) — Japan launched two intelligence satellites into orbit on Sunday amid growing concerns that North Korea is planning to test more rockets of its own and possibly conduct a nuclear test. Officials say the launch Sunday of the domestically produced HII-A rocket went smoothly and the satellites — an operational radar satellite and an experimental ... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 06:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1848758-japan-launches-2-intelligence-satellites.html 2013-01-27T06:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1847828-penalties-smokers-obese-sense.html NEW YORK (AP) — Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead of trying to penalize them and change their ways, why not just let these health sinners die prematurely from their unhealthy habits? Annual health care costs are roughly $96 billion for smokers and $147 billion for... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1847828-penalties-smokers-obese-sense.html 2013-01-26T22:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1848368-ap-interview-cern-chief-firmer-god-particle.html DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The world should know with certainty by the middle of this year whether a subatomic particle discovered by scientists is a long-sought Higgs boson, the head of the world's largest atom smasher said Saturday. Rolf Heuer, director of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said he is confident that "towards the mid... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1848368-ap-interview-cern-chief-firmer-god-particle.html 2013-01-26T21:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1848146-powers-prophesy-davos-to-future.html DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Forget the endless debates about the euro or government debts. What does the future hold? The World Economic Forum at Davos is always a showcase for new research, trends and ideas. And those at the annual gathering of the world's elite don't shy away from making predictions, even if they missed foreseeing seminal events like the... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1848146-powers-prophesy-davos-to-future.html 2013-01-26T19:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1845312-whats-threat-north-korean-rhetoric-reality.html TOKYO (AP) — According to its official statements, North Korea is ready to go to the brink. But how serious are Pyongyang's threats? This week, new U.N. sanctions punishing the North's successful December rocket launch have elicited a furious response from Pyongyang: strong hints that a third nuclear test is coming, along with bigger and better long-range... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1845312-whats-threat-north-korean-rhetoric-reality.html 2013-01-25T17:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1844964-will-smart-machines-create-world-without-work.html WASHINGTON (AP) — They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like "I, Robot" and the television show "Knight Rider." Now, three years after Google invented one, automated cars could be on their way to a freeway near you. In the U.S., California and other states are rewriting the rules of th... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1844964-will-smart-machines-create-world-without-work.html 2013-01-25T17:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1842142-practically-human-smart-machines-your-job.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Art Liscano knows he's an endangered species in the job market: He's a meter reader in Fresno, Calif. For 26 years, he's driven from house to house, checking how much electricity Pacific Gas & Electric customers have used. But PG&E doesn't need many people like Liscano making rounds anymore. Every day, the utility replaces 1,200 old-fash... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1842142-practically-human-smart-machines-your-job.html 2013-01-25T17:24:00Z