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NASA examines if repairs made foam break
Aug 5 2005 10:16PM (CT)
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - NASA is investigating whether repairs to a small crack in the foam on Discovery's fuel tank may have caused a 1-pound section of the insulation to break off during liftoff, officials said late Friday.
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Listening system may help save whales
Aug 5 2005 7:16PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Small survey planes, daylight and luck have long been the best tools for scientists hoping to spot the rare North Atlantic right whale. The results aren't too impressive.
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Scientists to simulate NYC gas attack
Aug 5 2005 7:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Government scientists who want to find out how fast and far a chemical attack could move through a city will release colorless, harmless gases in subways, an office building and some of Manhattan's most crowded streets to see which way the wind blows them.
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Scientists study Arctic climate changes
Aug 5 2005 7:13PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A Reno scientist is among a team of researchers who will spend the next several weeks studying the icy Arctic Ocean to document historic climate changes.
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Mutant mice carry diseases to help humans
Aug 5 2005 7:12PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - They're being bred now by the millions, the mutants, created to carry the ghastliest of diseases for the benefit of the human race. Since researchers published the mouse's entire genetic makeup in map form three years ago, increasingly exotic rodents are being created with relative ease.
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Astronauts' families on an emotional ride
Aug 5 2005 5:21PM (CT)
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - Eileen Collins, commander of the shuttle Discovery and the only mother on board, has been sending e-mails every day from space to her young son and daughter.
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U.S. makes drilling compensation voluntary
Aug 5 2005 4:48PM (CT)
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - With drilling rigs sprouting across the Rockies, federal land managers have quietly made it voluntary for companies to compensate for oil and gas development by improving the environment.
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Green sea turtle makes rare Va. delivery
Aug 5 2005 9:12AM (CT)
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - A green sea turtle dug out a nest in the sands of this resort beach and left 124 eggs _ the first documented case of the protected turtle laying its eggs in Virginia.
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Giant ocean waves more common than thought
Aug 5 2005 2:11AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The sea roiled as Hurricane Ivan roared south of the Gulf Coast last year, its winds churning up wave after wave, including a 91-foot giant that may be among the biggest storm wave yet measured. Few people get to witness the power of such a storm at sea and live to tell of it, but a new array of instruments on the ocean floor was able to measure the wave passing overhead.
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