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TwitterA flu shot is prepared in Chicago, Illinois. US President Barack Obama has vowed to fight for his budget proposals that include investments in clean energy and healthcare as he faces a tough battle moving the measures through Congress. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Boyle)From Yahoo News/Reuters:WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Virtually all cases of the most common strain of flu circulating in the United States now resist the main drug used to treat it, the U.S.
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Resistance To Flu Drug Widespread In U.S.: Study
March 3rd, 2009 
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February 24th, 2009 admin From Yahoo News/Reuters:WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A mission carrying a climate satellite into orbit failed on Tuesday when the satellite was not able to separate from the rocket, NASA said.”The vehicle … landed just sort of Antarctica in the ocean,” John Brunschwyler of Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp, which made the rocket told a news conference.The $278 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory was going to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and to determine what happens to the climate-changing pollutant.Read more ….Update: Nasa’s first CO2 satellite crashes into ocean after launch failure — Times Online
Posted in Science News Tags: Antarctica, Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere, Climate, Co2, Crashes, Failure Times, Launch Yahoo, Nasa, Nasa Launch, Nasa Satellite, News Conference, Observatory, Orbital Sciences Corp, Reuters Washington, Satellite Launch, Satellite News, Satellite Orbit, Yahoo, Yahoo News Comments OffNew Atlas Shows Dying Languages Around The World
February 20th, 2009 admin Click On The Image To Enlarge (Image from Thinking Shift)From Yahoo News/AP:PARIS – Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last surviving speaker passed away.Those are just two of the nearly 2,500 languages that UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, says are in danger of becoming extinct or have recently disappeared.
Posted in Science News Tags: Atlas World, Earth, Endangered Languages, Eyak, Immigrants, Languages Around The World, Latvia, Linguists, Native Languages, Native Speaker, Paris, Presentation, Unesco, United Nations, United Nations Educational Scientific And Cultural Organization, World Atlas, World Image, World Languages, Yahoo, Yahoo News Comments OffCrash Of US, Russian Satellites A Threat In Space
February 13th, 2009 admin NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office has counted about 17,000 objects larger than 10 centimeters, and it estimates that there are more than 200,000 particles between one and 10 centimeters. The debris objects shown here are an artist’s impression based on actual density data. The objects are shown at an exaggerated size to make them visible at the scale shown.
Posted in Science News Tags: Christian Science Monitor, Density Data, European Space Agency, Military Communications, Orbital Debris, Orbits, Photos Satellite, Russian Officials, Russian Satellite, Russian Satellites, Russian Spacecraft, Satellite Crash, Satellite Debris, Space Collision, Space Expert, Space Experts, Space Junk, Space Nasa, Unmanned Spacecraft, Yahoo News Comments Off2 Satellites Collide In Space: A First For The Space Program
February 11th, 2009 admin Image from Scientific American2 Big Satellites Collide 500 Miles Over Siberia — Yahoo News/APCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Two big communications satellites collided in the first-ever crash of two intact spacecraft in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds and posing a slight risk to the international space station.NASA said it will take weeks to determine the full magnitude of the crash, which occurred nearly 500 miles over Siberia on Tuesday.”We knew this was going to happen eventually,” said Mark Matney, an orbital debris scientist at Johnson Space Center in Houston.NASA believes any risk to the space station and its three astronauts should be low.
Posted in Science News Tags: Cbs News, Collision Course, Communications Satellites, Debris Clouds, Houston Chronicle, International Space Station, Iridium Phone, Johnson Space Center, Orbital Debris, Orbits, Phone Comm, Program Image, Russian Satellite, Russian Satellites, Satellite Debris, Scientific American, Space Collision, Space Shuttle, Two Satellites, Yahoo News Comments OffSenate Passes Stimulus Bill Containing $1.3 Billion for NASA
February 11th, 2009 admin From Yahoo News/Space.com:WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate passed an $838 billion economic stimulus package Tuesday that includes $1.3 billion for NASA – more than double the amount the House approved Jan. 28 for the U.S. space agency in its version of the bill.The Senate voted 61-37 on its version of the bill, which proposes spending $450 million to narrow the five-year gap between the scheduled 2010 retirement of the space shuttle and 2015 debut of its successor. The House put no money into addressing the gap.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Debut, Economic Stimulus Package, Gap, Jan 28, Money, Nasa, Nasa News, Retirement, Senate Bill, Space Agency, Space Shuttle, Stimulus Bill, U S Senate, Yahoo, Yahoo News Comments OffBig Particle Collider To Restart In September
February 11th, 2009 admin CERN Large Hadron Collider: Photo from Curious CatFrom Yahoo News/AP:GENEVA – Additional safety features being added to the world’s largest atom smasher will postpone its startup until the end of September, a year after the $10 billion machine was sidelined by a simple electrical fault, the operator said Tuesday.The cost of the repairs and added safety features has yet to be determined, but it will be covered by the regular budget of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, spokeswoman Christine Sutton said.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Atom Smasher, Budget, Cern, Christine Sutton, Curious Cat, Electrical Fault, European Organization, Geneva, Hadron Collider, Large Hadron, Nuclear Research, Particle, Photo, Spokeswoman, Yahoo, Yahoo News Comments OffMummies Found In Newly Discovered Tomb In Egypt
February 10th, 2009 admin In this photo released Monday, Feb. 9, 2009 by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the remains of a newly-discovered Egyptian mummy and sarcophagus are seen in a tomb at Saqqara, south of Cairo, in Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. A storeroom housing about two dozen ancient Egyptian mummies has been unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb during the latest round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara south of Cairo, archaeologists said Monday.
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