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)
NASA moves space shuttle Atlantis to launch pad (AP)
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)
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)
Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating (AFP)
McCain and Obama clash on economy (Reuters)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
