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ESA spacecraft set for flyby of Steins asteroid (AP)

A Feb. 25, 2007 file photo shows mission specialists at the ESA European Space Operation Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, southwestern Germany, operating the Rosetta probe during it's fly-by of planet Mars. European Space Agency ESA scientists are preparing for the first fly-by of an asteroid by their deep-space explorer, Rosetta, on a mission to solve the mystery of the birth of the solar system. Rosetta is set to rendezvous with the Steins asteroid, also known as Asteroid 2867, just before 1900 GMT on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 at a distance of just less than 500 miles (800 kilometers). (AP Photo/Daniel Roland, File)AP - Scientists at the European Space Agency are preparing for the first fly-by of an asteroid by their deep-space explorer, Rosetta, on a mission to solve the mystery of the birth of the solar system.





Feds warn climate change could harm giant sequoias (AP) AP - Federal researchers are warning that warming temperatures could soon cause California's giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly unless forest managers plan with an eye toward climate change and the impact of a longer, harsher wildfire season.


Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US (AP)

The Olympic cauldron is lit at the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, amid haze and smog after rainfall in Beijing, August 10, 2008. Rain fell on Beijing on Sunday, cooling oven-like temperatures for the second day of the Olympic Games and raising hopes that the thick haze clogging the Chinese capital might finally clear. REUTERS/Joe Chan (CHINA)AP - Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.





NASA moves space shuttle Atlantis to launch pad (AP)

Space shuttle Atlantis moves slowly on a six-hour journey to pad 39A in preparation for the upcoming STS-125 mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. Atlantis is scheduled to launch Oct. 8.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - NASA moved shuttle Atlantis to the launch pad on Thursday for a flight next month to the Hubble Space Telescope after being waylaid by a pair of tropical storms.





Autism and Vaccines: Why Bad Logic Trumps Science (LiveScience.com) LiveScience.com - The link between childhood autism and vaccines has, once again, been refuted. A large study by Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health Center for Infection and Immunity found no link between measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism cases. For many in the medical community, the issue is now closed.


Tropical Storm Hanna set to soak US East Coast (AP)

Local  resident H.M. Poole holds his hat in the stiff breeze during a squall in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Wrightsville Beach officials have declared a state of emergency with the landfall of Tropical Storm Hanna expected early Saturday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Beach vacationers in the Carolinas packed up and headed inland Friday as Tropical Storm Hanna cruised steadily toward the coast, while others decided to ride out the fast-moving storm that had only a slight chance to become a small hurricane before crashing ashore overnight.





New Partial Rings Discovered Around Saturn (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found two new, partial rings around Saturn that each accompany a small moon, shedding light on what determines whether a partial or complete ring forms with the moon.


Environmentalists can't corral Palin (AP)

In this March 29, 2008 file photo provided by Gordon Haber, a wolf with a trapper's snare deeply embedded in its neck as it walks along a railroad track in Denali National Park, Alaska.  After the snare was removed and the wound treated, the wolf rejoined a smaller wolf and appears to be recovering. (AP Photo/Gordan Haber)AP - At the National Governors Association conference where she first met John McCain, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had other business: making her case to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne against classifying the polar bear as a threatened species.





Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating (AFP)

Undated handout photo shows the 3D reconstruction of the skull of Toumai. A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp.(AFP/MPFT/File)AFP - A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp.





McCain and Obama clash on economy (Reuters)

Delegates hold signs supporting Cindy McCain at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 4, 2008. (Mike Segar/Reuters)Reuters - Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama, back on the campaign trail after their party conventions, clashed over the ailing U.S. economy on Friday as unemployment hit its highest monthly rate in nearly five years.





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