Provides the latest RSS feeds for Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Paris Guardian.com http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/cat/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 06:58:56 -0400 Sat, 25 May 2013 06:58:56 -0400 30 A Danish science experiment by a group of 9th-graders has gained worldwide interest, after they showed that wireless signals can stunt plant growth. Five girls from Hjallerup Skole, a primary education school in Denmark, began the experiment after noticing that when they slept with their cellphones near their heads overnight, they had trouble focusing the next day, according to Danish News site ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755337/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:40:01 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755337/scat/a9927dde6777aafc New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or thematically. ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214753727/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 01:50:01 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214753727/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will make four launches next year from the Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform under the Sea Launch programme, an official said. Corporation president Vitaly Lopota said that after 2014, Energia will be able to make five or more launches a year. Next year's launches will be the first since one of Sea Launch's Zenit vehicles carrying an Intelsat-27 ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A study of future human missions has indicated corporate researchers could be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s. The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows "a lot of excitement and interest from various companies" for such ventures, Daily Mail quoted Robert Bigelow, founder and president of the Las Vegas-based firm, as ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739917/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 12:00:01 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739917/scat/a9927dde6777aafc One fan of Leonardo DiCaprio has paid 1.5 million dollars for a trip into space with the actor, during a charity auction at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the winning bidder will get the chance to travel into space orbit on a Virgin Galactic spaceship in a seat next to DiCaprio, Us magazine reported. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will go ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214735602/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:30:02 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214735602/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A discussion? Even if we'd been invited, that would have been hard without prior disclosure of the nitty-gritty mathematical details. Grand claims like Weinstein's would - in the normal course of science - be accompanied by a technical paper explaining their foundations. We could then take a deep breath and puzzle over whether they're consistent with the vast knowledge of nature ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756679/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 05:28:17 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756679/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Why would anyone choose to reinvest in a form of power that seems not to have been harnessed properly? At Chernobyl and Fukushima the world had two very close shaves. Not a very impressive safety record for a technology that has been pampered with billions of dollars of investment over 60 ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756621/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 05:28:14 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756621/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Billboard Calls for Sen. McCain to 'Get Serious' About Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons WASHINGTON - August 19 - Northwest, the official airline of the Republican National Convention, has taken on a new role of censor. Yesterday it asked Clear Channel Communications to remove a Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) anti-nuclear-weapons billboard in the Minneapolis airport ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755614/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 04:33:51 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755614/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CSPI Investigation Reveals Kids' Meals at Restaurants Usually Too High in Calories, and Good Options Hard to Find WASHINGTON - August 4 - Nearly every single possible combination of the children's meals at KFC, Taco Bell, Sonic, Jack in the Box, and Chick-fil-A is too high in calories, according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, which today released the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756093/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 04:33:31 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756093/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday expressed the wish to speed up her country's space cooperation with Ukraine. Speaking by phone earlier in the day, Rousseff and her Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych discussed bilateral cooperation, especially on the space sector. Brazil and Ukraine are partners in Alcantara Cyclon Space (ACS), a company which is preparing for the launch ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756320/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 04:29:58 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756320/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The era of a space dominated by the U.S. and Russia is gone. Even when they have preserved their leadership in space exploration, they face a growing competition from other states, primarily from China. That conclusion is stated in a report prepared by Futron research company (USA). For five years Futron has been composing an index of competitive position of various participants of space ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756321/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 04:29:50 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756321/scat/a9927dde6777aafc British crossover style performer Sarah Brightman announced here Wednesday her intention to become the next paying passenger to the International Space Station (ISS). "I am planning to become a space flight participant," Brightman told a press conference, after receiving the approval from a medical commission for training at Russia's Cosmonaut Training Center in July. Ahead of the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756322/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 04:29:48 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756322/scat/a9927dde6777aafc SpaceX's unmanned Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday morning to make the first-ever commercial cargo delivery to the orbiting lab. According to U.S. space agency NASA, Dragon was captured by station crew using Canadarm2 robotic arm and installed to the station's docking port on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony node at 9:03 a.m. EDT (1303 ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756323/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 04:29:47 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214756323/scat/a9927dde6777aafc India is planning to launch 58 space missions, including sending spacecraft to Moon and Mars, an exclusive satellite to keep a round-the-clock watch on the country and deploy hundreds of transponders in the next five years, reported Press Trust of India on Sunday. The India Space Research Organization also aims to deploy its own version of the Global Positioning System by putting into orbit a ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755364/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:11 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755364/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as a product of human weakness is being sold on eBay for a starting price of $3 million. The letter, handwritten in 1954, a year before Einstein's death, was addressed to philosopher Eric Gutkind. In it, Einstein discussed his views on religion, including calling "the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755365/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:11 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755365/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday it has decided to postpone an experiment to release satellites from the International Space Station (ISS) due to approaching space debris. The experiment planned for the early hours of Friday is scheduled to launch five small satellites provided by the Fukuoka Institute of Technology and Tohoku University. The looming space debris may require ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755366/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:08 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755366/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 photo, Dr. Phillip Epstein, left, and Steve Landers of the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago talk about the new iPad app being released Tuesday, Sept. 25 that allows users to see Albert Einstein's brain as if they were looking through a microscope. ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755367/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:06 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755367/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Japan's southwestern Fukuoka Prefecture is planning to lease roof space at schools for solar panels with an aim to widely develop solar power generation, local press reported Tuesday. The new plan came after a new feed-in-tariff scheme for renewable energy started in the country this summer and was the first of its kind pushed by a local government in southwestern Japan. According to the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755368/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:05 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755368/scat/a9927dde6777aafc China and the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have launched a plan that will see them cooperate in fields of science and technology. More than 300 entrepreneurs and scholars from China and ASEAN countries attended a launch ceremony on Saturday in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on the sidelines of the ninth China-ASEAN ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755369/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:04 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755369/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A private capsule is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on a cargo mission on Oct. 7, U.S. space agency NASA announced Thursday. The SpaceX's robotic Dragon spacecraft is set to blast off atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:34 p.m. EDT on Oct. 7 (0034 Oct. 8 GMT). This will be the first of 12 contracted flights ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755370/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:01 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755370/scat/a9927dde6777aafc HOUSTON, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of space fans in the U.S. city of Houston cheered space shuttle Endeavor Wednesday as the United States' last retired shuttle circled overhead and landed in the city. Riding piggyback on a modified Boeing 747, Endeavor landed Wednesday morning in Houston's Ellington Field, after a five-hour flight from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. An ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755371/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:59 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755371/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Russian Soyuz capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe on Monday, delivering a trio of astronauts from a four-month stint on the International Space Station. The capsule, carrying US astronaut Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, parachuted through a blue sky and touched down in a cloud of dust as its soft landing engines ignited at 8.53 local time (2.53 GMT). ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755373/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:55 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755373/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This photo provided by NASA shows space shuttle Endeavour atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755372/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:55 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755372/scat/a9927dde6777aafc They say great minds think alike -- but that's the last thing Bai Chunli wants. As president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he says what the country's scientific community needs most is diversity, not uniformity. "When we say someone is trying to do things in an unorthodox way, it's usually derogatory," the 58-year-old chemist said. "But in terms of scientific ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755374/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:54 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755374/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WELLINGTON, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- A New Zealand government-led science delegation will head to the United States on Sunday to promote scientific collaboration between the two countries. Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce will lead the delegation to attend the New Zealand-United States Joint Commission on Science and Technology Cooperation which aims to promote collaboration in policy ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755375/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:51 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755375/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Astronauts on the International Space Station bade farewell to a Japanese cargo ship today (Sept. 12), ending Japan's latest delivery flight to the orbiting lab. Japan's unmanned H-2 Transfer Vehicle 3 (HTV-3) left the space station at 11:50 a.m. EDT (1350 GMT) after station astronauts used a robotic arm to detach the spacecraft from its docking port and set it free. The orbiting ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755376/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:50 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755376/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Russia must develop clear goals for its space program in order to pull its space industry out of the currently unhealthy state, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday. "Russia must formulate what it wants from space," Rogozin told the state-run Moscow radio, stressing a string of recent accidents with rocket launches were due to lack of clear ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755377/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 03:17:48 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214755377/scat/a9927dde6777aafc SLAMABAD – Seventeen Pakistani children burnt to death on Saturday when a gas cylinder on the bus taking them to school exploded, media said. Ten children were injured in the blaze on the outskirts of Gujrat, 100 miles (170 km) southeast of Islamabad, DawnNews said. Many vehicles in energy-starved Pakistan are powered by relatively cheap compressed natural gas and cylinder blasts are ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214754509/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 02:37:11 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214754509/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Phil Lindsey, Discover Science Place CEO, will be interviewed this week on the Tyler Chamber Radio show.Discover Science Place is offering Summer Camps, where children can explore, design and create using cutting-edge technology and innovation. There is a different camp each week from June 24 through Aug. 16 and children in kindergarten through eighth grade can attend. Age of the Dinosaur, an ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214754843/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 02:22:45 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214754843/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - A Delta IV rocket successfully launched a Wideband Global SATCOM 5 satellite from Cape Canaveral on 20:27 EDT (4:27 Moscow time) Thursday, media reported.The US Air Force's satellite is headed for a geostationary orbit off the east coast of the United States and will take several months to reach it, Spaceflightnow.com said.The launch, conducted by Lockheed ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214753923/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 01:33:32 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214753923/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A bystander checks the debris around a row of burnt cars in the suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm May 23, 2013. (REUTERS/Fredrik Sandberg/Scanpix) STOCKHOLM – A nearly week-long spate of rioting spread outside Stockholm on Friday but authorities said police reinforcements sent to the Swedish capital had reduced the violence there, even ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752934/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 00:22:49 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752934/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A dog was caught in a vicious animal trap that consisted of a hunk of meat threaded through a series of five barbed hooks on the Baden Powell Trail in Vancouver on Thursday morning. (Facebook photo) Police in Vancouver have issued a public warning after a dog was hooked in a vicious animal trap on a hiking trail. A dog owner was walking her Labradoodle on the Baden Powell Trail around 10:30 ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752985/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 25 May 2013 00:22:45 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752985/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The conclusion of talks over a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Switzerland will create a vast space for further development of bilateral ties and is also conducive to the development of China-Europe relations, visiting Chinese Premier Li keqiang said here Friday.At a joint press conference with Swiss President Ueli Maurer, Li said he and the Swiss leader reached many important ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752778/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 23:25:05 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752778/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Play video TORONTO - It hasn’t been a great start to the summer for a young Oshawa man, having had his nose chewed off by a vicious dog while protecting his girlfriend, and then thrown out of his apartment. It was last Saturday night, while kicking back on the front porch of the rooming house he lives in at 140 Brock St., that Jimmy Rogers, a 23-year-old unemployed construction worker, ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752361/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 23:15:49 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752361/scat/a9927dde6777aafc JOSEPH A. GARCIA/THE STAR Sierra High School science teacher Laura Todis (center) joins her students after being named the 2013 Ventura County Teacher of the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752084/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 22:29:04 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752084/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Reconstruction in the earthquake-affected zone in southwest China's Sichuan Province should be conducted in a scientific, orderly and efficient manner, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli has stressed.Zhang made the comments during a conference in Beijing on Friday afternoon, after he had accompanied President Xi Jinping earlier this week to visit the province's Lushan County, which was hit by a ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752085/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 22:18:31 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752085/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Local residents line the river banks to look at a span of highway bridge sitting in the Skagit River May 24, 2013 after collapsing near the town of Mt Vernon, Washington late Thursday. REUTERS/Cliff ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214751495/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 22:08:54 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214751495/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sage Morin is comforted by a supporter as she holds a picture of her son Geo Mounsef outside the Law Courts, in Edmonton, Alta. on Friday May 24, 2013. Geo, 2, was killed after an SUV plowed into the patio at Ric's Grill, 14229 - 23 Ave., where he was sitting with his family May 19, 2013. Richard Suter was granted bail in the incident Friday. David Bloom/Edmonton Sun/QMI ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214751565/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 22:08:50 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214751565/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks with a reporter outside city jail in this May 3, 2010, file photo. (PAUL J. ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214751500/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 22:00:53 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214751500/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Senator Mike Duffy arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa May 23, 2013. Duffy resigned from the Conservative caucus last week amid an expenses scandal. REUTERS/Chris ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752086/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 21:44:18 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752086/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri May 24, 2013 9:29pm EDT * Spacecraft to be used for broadband communications * 2nd flight for United Launch Alliance in nine days * Five more satellites in network to follow By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. May 24 (Reuters) - An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday to put a multi-use, broadband communications satellite into orbit for the U.S. ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752063/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 21:29:28 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214752063/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening. The satellite was the fifth Wideband Global satcom spacecraft to be launched.The satellite, which is being sent into an orbit that follows the earth's rotation 22,000 miles above the equator, will serve ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214751156/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 21:13:30 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214751156/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mayank Rehani demonstrates the driving simulator used to study the impact of hands-free distraction on drivers at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Centre in Edmonton on May 24, 2013. Dave Lazzarino/Edmonton Sun/QMI Agency EDMONTON -- Distracted driving laws enacted in most of Canada means drivers have had to keep their cell phones out of their hands and their eyes on the road. But a recent study by ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214750860/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:22 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214750860/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Zachary Holland. (File) EDMONTON - An Edmonton man who used a toilet tank lid to attack a transsexual before torching her suite and dragged his girlfriend from a car was sentenced to 15 years Thursday. Zachary Holland, 26, pleaded guilty to several charges including arson causing bodily harm, two counts of aggravated assault, kidnapping and uttering death threats. Provincial Court Judge James ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214750861/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:22 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214750861/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Actor Leonardo DiCaprio attends the "The Great Gatsby" world premiere at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on May 1, 2013, in New ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214750678/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 20:50:05 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214750678/scat/a9927dde6777aafc News from the biggest beat in the cosmos, going out 13.7 billion light-years and taking in everything from astronomy to zoology. Join the adventure ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214749527/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 18:59:33 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214749527/scat/a9927dde6777aafc LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hungry? How about tempura-battered fried Tarantula for an appetizer? They're frozen then defrosted before bug chef David George Gordon cuts off the abdomen, singes off hairs with a lighter and dunks the remaining spider body into ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748909/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 18:40:55 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748909/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Image Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) At a Cannes Film Festival charity auction as star-studded as one of the Great Gatsby’s parties, a pitch rang out that sounded like a sci-fi sequel to ';Catch Me If You Can.'; ';How would you like to go to space with Leonardo DiCaprio?'; said an auctioneer, the actress Nicole Kidman. ';I can’t believe he ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748937/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 18:33:25 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748937/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Pavlof Volcano has been erupting for over a week, releasing a humongous plume of ash, steam, and smoke visible from the International Space Station. The eruption has quieted down, but seismic data suggests that it's not ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214749528/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 18:25:32 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214749528/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA officials confirmed this week that the space agency awarded $125,000 to the Austin, Texas-based company Systems and Materials Research Consultancy (SMRC) to study how to make nutritious and ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748580/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 17:53:31 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748580/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Leonardo DiCaprio. Off to space next year. A wealthy Russian oligarch living in Monaco spent over a million dollars to sit -- and then float -- alongside him while they orbit the planet in a Virgin Galactic space ship. This is one easy how-to article. How do you get to go into outerspace with an A-lister, in this case Leonardo DiCaprio? Well, first you have to be go to the Cannes Film Festival ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214747649/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 17:45:27 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214747649/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A 3D printer is slated to arrive at the International Space Station next year, where it will crank out the first parts ever manufactured off Earth. The company Made in Space is partnering with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748576/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 17:32:25 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748576/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in the sky this month, will be joined by tiny Mercury for a rare celestial show this ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748577/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 17:31:51 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748577/scat/a9927dde6777aafc By: Tariq Malik Published: 05/24/2013 12:46 PM EDT on SPACE.com The moon will take the smallest of dips through the Earth's shadow in a minor eclipse tonight (May 24) and you can watch the lunar event live online via a webcast. ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748578/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 17:28:55 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748578/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, May 23, ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214747955/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 17:27:57 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214747955/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The world's largest LEGO model is on display at Times Square in New York, May 23, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand) A massive Star Wars X-Wing spaceship has landed on New York's Times Square. Well, not quite. It's actually a replica of one flown in the famed movie franchise and represents the largest model ever made by Danish toy company Lego. Unveiled Thursday, the spectacular ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748579/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 17:12:37 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214748579/scat/a9927dde6777aafc tectonic plates . ';Our research shows that bipedalism may have developed as a response to the terrain, rather than a response to climatically-driven vegetation ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214747451/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 16:43:26 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214747451/scat/a9927dde6777aafc During sunset on Saturday, three planets will form a bright cluster in the western sky known as the Dance of the Planets. Venus, Jupiter and Mars -- the brightest planets visible on Earth -- will move into a triangle only three degrees wide. The triple conjunction of planets is fairly rare. The last time the three bright planets aligned in that formation was on May 9, 2011. According to NASA, ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214746557/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 16:27:54 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214746557/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Vatican Astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno Speaks at TEDx ConferenceBy Junno Arocho EstevesROME, April 19, 2013 (Zenit.org) - The TEDx: Via della Conciliazione Conference taking place today in Rome brought an array of scientists, artists, musicians, and scholars together to discuss the subject of Religious Freedom in their respective fields.Among the speakers present was Brother Guy Consolmagno, ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214747431/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 16:08:06 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214747431/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Our Geo Quiz comes from space on Friday. We’re looking for the name of satellite from Ecuador. Their satellite — their only satellite — has been involved in what you might call a fender bender. Russian officials say it may have been a collision with a piece of orbiting space junk from their space activities. The satellite is a nanno-satellite, a tiny computer with solar ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214745420/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 15:36:00 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214745420/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Los Angeles museum, where the retired shuttle is on permanent display, had 180,769 visitors in July 2012, before the shuttle arrived. This July, museum officials expect 230,916 ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214745779/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 15:33:07 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214745779/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Vito Rizzuto. (QMI file photo) MONTREAL -- Alessandro Taloni, a former jet-setting Mafia associate who ran a $1 billion cross-border drug ring, pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking in a New York court. Taloni, 39, faces 10 years to life in prison plus a fine that could reach $2 million, after admitting to his crimes on Thursday. Following his arrest in 2011, the Montrealer made headlines for ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214745415/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 15:15:30 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214745415/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Biomedical engineers at the University of Michigan have revealed how they used 3-D printing technology to fashion a tiny, custom-made implant that helped save the life of a newborn baby boy.And the Texas-based engineering firm Systems and Materials Research Corporation has just received a $125,000 grant from NASA to develop a printer that can fabricate pizzas for astronauts to eat in ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214746150/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 15:13:04 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214746150/scat/a9927dde6777aafc . This weekend, three planets will nestle together in the western sky at twilight to form a rarely seen glowing triangle. With good timing and a bit of luck you should be able to see it without a telescope. Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter have been converging in the sky in the past month and will form their tightest clump on Sunday, May 26. This triple conjunction — visible from most of North ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214745293/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 15:11:15 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214745293/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214745294/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 15:11:14 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214745294/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This intriguing space wallpaper reveals the spectacular stellar nursery IC 2944. The image was released on May 23, 2013 to celebrate a milestone: 15 years of ESO's Very Large Telescope. This photo also shows a group of thick clouds of dust known as the Thackeray globules silhouetted against the pale pink glowing gas of the nebula. These globules are under fierce bombardment from the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214746168/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 15:11:11 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214746168/scat/a9927dde6777aafc FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) - Whether you think of skateboarding as a sport, recreational activity, or mode of transportation, the simple fact is that it's all about science, specifically physics. That's the genesis of an exhibit at the Museum of Discovery and Science to show the science behind the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214746169/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 15:01:14 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214746169/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NDP MP Tyrone Benskin. (ANDRE FORGET/QMI AGENCY) MONTREAL - Revenue Quebec says NDP MP Tyrone Benskin owes nearly $60,000 in back taxes and plans to garnish his salary until it is repaid. Court documents indicate the 54-year-old former actor did not pay all or part of his provincial tax bill between 2007 and 2011. The $58,097 debt, including penalties, was amassed in the four years prior to his ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214746170/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 14:50:25 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214746170/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Toronto Coun. Doug Ford denies allegations against Rob Ford TORONTO - Mayor Rob Ford's own executive committee has written a letter urging him to address the crack cocaine allegations that have dogged him for a week now. Deputy mayor Doug Holyday said the letter will be released by Friday afternoon and that it says the "business of the city will continue as usual" and asks Ford to ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214746171/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 14:50:25 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214746171/scat/a9927dde6777aafc By Megan Gannon, Space.com Three astronauts who recently spent months together aboard the International Space Station reunited on Earth on Thursday during ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214744823/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 14:18:03 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214744823/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Scientists who worked with the Nobel prize-winning pioneer discuss his legacy alongside footage and previously unseen interviews. Max Perutz, the Austrian-born British molecular biologist, founded the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at Cambridge University in the postwar years where he was the prominent figure in a group of brilliant scientists. He was awarded a Nobel prize in 1962 for ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214744824/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 14:14:04 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214744824/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Pakistan International Airlines is surrounded by emergency vehicles on the tarmac at Stansted Airport, southern England, May 24, 2013. British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft. (REUTERS/ Paul Hackett) LONDON - British fighter ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743646/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 14:04:15 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743646/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Shane Daniel Garry, 45, of Brampton, was arrested Thursday, May 23, 2013, and charged in an historic sex assault of a nine-year-old girl from 1991. ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743818/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 14:04:13 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743818/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The diverse range of habitats that zoos and aquariums must maintain for their animal denizens creates unique--and sizable--energy demands. Many organizations are now designing these habitats with efficiency in mind. Woodland Park's penguin exhibit, for example, will save 22,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year and some 3 million gallons (11.4 million liters) of water, thanks to ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743912/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 14:01:55 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743912/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years show that cold gas to power stars spirals into the cores of galaxies along spiral ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214744825/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 13:59:49 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214744825/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Astronauts are, by necessity if not always by nature, a tidy bunch. When you watch them doing their thing on the International Space Station, they're almost always clean-cut and clean-shaven. This is true even ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214744826/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 13:55:46 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214744826/scat/a9927dde6777aafc theory of natural selection , the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador. A team from Google has just completed an imaging mission there in which they explored every nook and cranny of the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214744765/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 13:46:45 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214744765/scat/a9927dde6777aafc infographic detailing the associations between extreme weather in the US and the evidence of climate change. In the report, the graph explained that strong evidence ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743451/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 13:07:33 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743451/scat/a9927dde6777aafc University of Leicester 's discovery of Richard III's remains underneath a car park in Leicester has found that the slain King of England was buried in a "hastily dug grave." The review reveals for the first time specific details of the grave where King Richard III was buried after an excavation team unearthed the site last year. The peer-reviewed paper is published in the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743450/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 13:07:33 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743450/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This weekend, skywatchers around the world will get to see a striking triple planetary meetup in the evening skies the likes of which won't be repeated until ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743439/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 12:48:30 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743439/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Pavlof volcano --located about 625 miles (a thousand kilometers) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, along the Aleutian Islands--undergoing a massive eruption was captured from the International Space Station (ISS) on May ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743440/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 12:48:30 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743440/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Image: KSCs Launch Complex 39 is strategically located next to a barge site and a variety of structures, including a Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), Orbiter Processing Facilities (OPF), Press Site, Launch Control Center (LCC), and a crawlerway to the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743452/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 12:42:58 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214743452/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NIH ) have discovered a small molecule that is released in the spinal cordthat triggers a process later experienced in the brain as the sensation of itch. The results of this study were published in a recent issue ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214741825/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:52:04 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214741825/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Charles Darwin 's theory of natural selection because they are some of the most biologically unique ecosystems in the world, drawing the attention of explorers and scientists alike. Local conservation groups, scientists and the Ecuadorean Government are working to protect the Galapagos from the threats posed by invasive species, climate change, and other human impacts. Now, a partnership ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214741714/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:52:04 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214741714/scat/a9927dde6777aafc German cockroaches , especially those that avoid the roach baits. Entomologists from North Carolina State University show the neural mechanism causing the aversion to glucose in a new study published in the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214740785/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:52:03 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214740785/scat/a9927dde6777aafc , the North American shoreline of over 3 million years ago sits more than 280 feet above the modern sea level from Virginia to Florida. Using computer modeling to account for sediment buildup and glacial retreats, a team of geophysicists showed that the shoreline shift may have been caused by the interaction between the Earth's crust and ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214741826/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:52:03 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214741826/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Shutterstock) Investigators have charged 29 bars in New Jersey for selling cheap alcohol - and in one instance, rubbing alcohol coloured with food dye - and serving it as high-end liquor in what's been dubbed Operation Swill. ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739957/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:35:05 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739957/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) A New Jersey cop is accused of firebombing his boss's home. Early Monday, the home of Edison Police Department Capt. Mark Anderko was hit with either a gas can or Molotov ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739958/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:35:05 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739958/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Rescuers searching for a missing Brampton, Ont., man in the mountains of southeastern Australia have clues he may have taken a different route than originally thought. ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214740533/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:35:04 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214740533/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a rear/side view of the Linear Aerospike SR Experiment (LASRE) pod on NASA SR-71, tail number 844 is shown. This photo was taken during the fit-check of the pod on Feb. 15, 1996, at Lockheed Martin Skunkworks in Palmdale, California. The LASRE experiment was designed to provide in-flight data to help Lockheed Martin evaluate the aerodynamic ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214741827/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:30:44 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214741827/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Surveillance of the police variety is strictly for professionals. But humble backyard stargazers have carried out a cosmic stakeout on an unpredictable star system, Cygni SS, which periodically explodes. The result is a measurement of its distance from Earth that bests one made by NASA's Hubble telescope - and shores up the leading mechanism for the process that lights up the most common ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214741832/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:28:48 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214741832/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mission accomplished: Yuichiro Miura (left) and his son, Gota, pose for a photo with a flag after reaching the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday. | MIURA DOLPHINES ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214740848/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:26:04 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214740848/scat/a9927dde6777aafc China's Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, WHO, leaves the podium after delivering a speech during the 66th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 20, ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214740069/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:24:34 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214740069/scat/a9927dde6777aafc With an apt rendition of "Gold-finger," singing legend Shirley Bassey roused celebrity-revelers to dig deep into their pockets at the 20th amfAR gala in the Cap D'Antibes Thursday, helping to raise an estimated $25 million for AIDS research. The British-born singer was one of several performers including Duran Duran who sang at the gold-themed auction event nearby the Cannes Film ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214740367/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:24:31 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214740367/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The normally civil world of international health diplomacy was shattered yesterday, when Saudi Arabia complained that a patent taken out by Dutch scientists who isolated the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus was impeding Saudi efforts to track the virus within its own ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214740883/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 11:17:40 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214740883/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Man hacked to death in London street TRIPOLI, Lebanon - A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the attackers accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its "courage" and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. In an interview in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, where he has lived since being banished from ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739066/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 10:41:39 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739066/scat/a9927dde6777aafc leaving 24 people dead. Each of these one-off traumas was bad enough, wreaking havoc, but in Australia such events seem to be becoming commonplace. The Lucky Country has experienced a major spike in extreme weather in the past few years, with a string of devastating incidents just since January. That has people wondering if the island continent is somehow a perfect bellwether for the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739349/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 10:39:14 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739349/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Oakland Museum of California on May 31 will reopen its natural sciences gallery, the final part of a six-year, $63 million overhaul of the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739614/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 10:29:46 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739614/scat/a9927dde6777aafc More to the point, it would be surprising if anyone wanted to replicate its peculiar sex life. The male produces a single sperm that is almost as long as he is, wraps it in a package called a spermatophore, and sticks it on the female's abdomen. It's then up to the female to transfer this lone giant sperm into her genital tract. While most insects abandoned this primitive mating system ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739828/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 10:24:10 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739828/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri May 24, 2013 9:50am EDT * Spare satellite activated but not moved * Troubleshooting efforts under way for GOES-13 * Satellite helps track weather off U.S. Atlantic Coast By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 24, (Reuters) - A key satellite positioned to track severe weather in the eastern United States has failed, just as the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season is about to start. The U.S. ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739777/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 09:50:24 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214739777/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738977/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 09:46:39 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738977/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WASHINGTON - Twelve years after the "war on terror" began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islamist militants. In a major policy speech on Thursday, Obama narrowed the scope of the targeted-killing drone campaign against al-Qaida and its allies and took steps toward closing the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738220/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 09:46:25 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738220/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Online reaction to Mark Towhey's firing TORONTO - So where are the guys who are trying to sell the notorious alleged Mayor Rob Ford "crack smoking" video? And where is the most sought-after video in Toronto history itself? The guy trying to buy it for $200,000 would like to know. As of right now they, as well as it, have disappeared. "I haven't been in contact with ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738250/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 09:46:22 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738250/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Union Of Concerned Scientists has "chosen 12 all-star cartoons that stand out in their ability to poke fun at the not-so-humorous challenges to the complex relationship between science and ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738978/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 09:36:39 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738978/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The calendar is a bit light next week after the three-day Memorial Day break, but there are a few good opportunities for founders and funders nonetheless. The big one is in Redwood City on Thursday when the annual Startup Conference is held in Redwood City. If your group is hosting something you think we should include in our daily and weekly TechFlash Silicon Valley calendar, send me a note at ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738788/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 09:08:31 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738788/scat/a9927dde6777aafc When people want to emphasise how complicated something is, they compare it to either brain surgery or rocket science. But it's unlikely that two such different disciplines are equally challenging. One must be ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738132/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 09:01:53 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738132/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mount Pavlof, Alaska -- Alaska's Pavlof Volcano started erupting on May 13th and the ash cloud can be seen from the International Space Station. CNN -I-reporter Chris Owens, who's a pilot, flew within about a half-mile of the volcano and captured the plume on video. The outdoor TV program producer says he was scouting a location at the time. NASA says Pavlof's ash cloud went ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214737982/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 08:58:33 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214737982/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri May 24, 2013 8:52am EDT May 24 (Reuters) - Tornadoes that struck the United States from May 18 to May 20 caused between $2 billion to $5 billion of insured losses, disaster modeling company Eqecat said late Thursday. At the high end of the range, the tornado outbreak may rank as the second-worst ever in terms of insured losses, behind the late-April 2011 twisters that devastated Tuscaloosa, ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738915/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 08:52:59 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738915/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Inventors Petr Novikov and Sasa Jokic designed it after trying to think of ways to implement 3-D printing with fibers, rather than the usual ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738133/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 08:42:58 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738133/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In the mid-1980s pest-control companies introduced roach-killing cocktails of food mixed with slow-acting toxins. Lured in by the food, the roaches ate the heady mix, then returned to their nests, only to die several hours later and spread the toxin when their nest-mates devoured their faeces and bodies. By 1993, however, the toxic bait was becoming ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738134/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 08:34:56 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738134/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Reds are "rich, vibrant and vivid, green grass looks like grass, and scenes of the Caribbean are stunning", says Seth Coe-Sullivan, founder and chief technology officer of the company behind the quantum ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738135/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 08:34:55 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214738135/scat/a9927dde6777aafc young people in a German cohort study, and 20 Wistar rats. The study authors wanted to investigate the often-seen relationship between a child's age at first drink and subsequent alcohol abuse problems, or harm from alcohol. They state that they are interested in what neurobiological mechanisms underlie the association, so look at the relationship between puberty stage when the child (or ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214737334/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 08:08:46 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214737334/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Water cooler conversation at a dictionary company tends towards the odd. A while ago I was chatting with one of my colleagues about our respective defining batches. "I'm not sure," he said, "what to do about the plural of 'hobbit'. There are some citations for 'hobbitses', but I think they may be facetious uses. Have any thoughts?"I did: "We enter ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214736806/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 08:08:39 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214736806/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Choe Ryong-hae (C), director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA) of North Korea, walks with Chinese Ambassador Liu Hongcai (2nd R) before departing Pyongyang airport for China, in this May 22, 2013 picture released by the North Korea's KCNA news agency in ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214736656/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 07:48:09 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214736656/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Connecticut Sun . And like any casino worth its chips, the Sun brings in aging rockers like Megadeth, Styx, and REO Speedwagon. It's not just that you can gamble away your pennies at a resort tucked in a riverside woodland; the 34-story hotel tower juts out of the landscape like a crystal mountain. But casinos tend to want people to stay in the gambling halls, so conveniently, it also has a ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214736201/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 07:00:25 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214736201/scat/a9927dde6777aafc return was fraught with things that I found fascinating as a neurologist and space medicine researcher, such as being unable to do a sit-up or protect myself from a sudden fall.The nervous system is quite adaptable to space flight and we cannot will these gravity-related reflexes to remain when they are not needed. The light-headedness and heavy bed cover during recovery were as interesting as ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214736541/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:56:14 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214736541/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Duncan Hull The latest in a long line of government spending reviews, this one covering the period 2015-16, is looming - and many in the science community are getting worried. In the last such review, in 2010, ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214735871/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:21:27 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214735871/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Michael Georgiopoulos has been named the new dean of the College of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. Michael Georgiopoulos has been named the new dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida after an extensive national search for the position. Georgiopoulos has led the college since July 1, 2012, as interim dean ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214736060/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:19:21 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214736060/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The exhibition Undercurrents and the Quest for Space aims to become an outlet for female artists to speak out about the trauma of abuse, addition and other personal difficulties. Cris Matos / for China ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214735873/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:15:24 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214735873/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Lew Crampton, president and CEO of the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, inside the new viewing tank. After a $5 million renovation, the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium is set to reveal its new look on June 7. The museum is looking to engage children and adults with hands-on, mind-on exhibits that promote science, technology, engineering and math skills to fill the widening ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214735710/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:02:38 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214735710/scat/a9927dde6777aafc By Megan Gannon, Space.com Three astronauts who recently spent months together aboard the International Space Station reunited on Earth on Thursday during ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214734933/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 05:10:34 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214734933/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Restaurant patios around the city are abuzz with al fresco diners eager to sip and sup under the stars. Festivals are in full swing, serving up barbecue, cotton candy and street food. Farmers markets on both sides of the state line supply shoppers with local produce for bountiful dinners on the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214734934/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:31 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214734934/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ecuador A tiny Ecuadoran satellite that collided in space with the remains of a Soviet rocket has survived the crash, but is damaged and not transmitting.Ecuador's space agency EXA warned on Wednesday that a collision was likely between its Pegaso nanosatellite and the remains of an S14 rocket, launched by the Soviet Union in the midst of the Cold War.The agency's director Ronnie ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214733716/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:14 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214733716/scat/a9927dde6777aafc . Actinium gets its name from the Greek word for "beam" or "ray".This element is vanishingly rare in the wild -- "vanishingly rare" is a deliberately-chosen descriptor that you will be reading quite frequently in this weekly round-up now that we're well into the seventh and last period of the periodic table. Actinium is a soft, silvery-white metal that can be ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214732992/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 04:16:08 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214732992/scat/a9927dde6777aafc LONDON (Reuters) - Dramatic video footage showing the moment when police shot the two men suspected of hacking to death a soldier in London was published on a British newspaper's website on Friday. The shaky, 10-second clip shows one of the men sprinting towards a police car with a knife in his hand before he is shot and tumbles to the ground. The second man appears to aim a gun at the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214732643/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 03:55:55 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214732643/scat/a9927dde6777aafc . Remember the young lady, Kiera Wilmot, who had been the center of a controversy when she lit off a small chemical explosion at her school? The Florida student still has not learned her fate as far as her high school goes, though she ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214731982/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 02:27:16 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214731982/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Researchers in the US have captured rare images of the creation of a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way that was formed when two young galaxies collided 11 billion years ago, a study said."Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare - the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds," ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214732041/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 02:19:40 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214732041/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The yellow-bellied marmot is poised in its diorama, backed by sweeping vistas of the high Sierra. Rustic twig chairs sit on the porch of a mock Curry Village cabin, ready for real-life rocking. A brand-new ancient redwood grove stretches to the ceiling just steps from a sea lion in full roar on a sandy shore, not far from replica Lake Merritt light poles, artfully dribbled with an epoxy-clay ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214731926/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 02:15:29 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214731926/scat/a9927dde6777aafc GREENVILLE, Calif. – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Northern California Thursday night that was widely felt across the region, but there were no reports of serious damage. The temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centered near Greenville, about 25 miles southwest of Susanville in far northeastern California, said Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214731438/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 01:24:26 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214731438/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Rob Ford ducks reporters asking about crack allegations Mayor Rob Ford fired his chief of staff Thursday after growing tired of Mark Towhey urging him to go to rehab, the Toronto Sun has learned. Towhey was walked out of the mayor’s office by City Hall security and at least one councillor said his firing was "football" related. But a source familiar with the situation told the ... http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214731593/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 01:06:07 -0400 http://www.parisguardian.com/index.php/sid/214731593/scat/a9927dde6777aafc