India blasts into space rocket carrying 10 satellites (AFP)

May 17th, 2008 by danvillnews

An Indian PSLV rocket blasts off from a launch pad at Sriharikota spaceport in 2007. Indian fired another rocket into space Monday carrying a cluster of 10 satellites, state-run television showed, in a mission marking a milestone for the country's 45-year-old space programme.(AFP/File) AFP - An Indian rocket blasted into space Monday carrying a set of 10 satellites, state-run television showed, in a mission that marks a milestone for the country 45-year-old space programme. clear = “todos”

rainy Monday in the northeastern U.S. (weather.com)

May 16th, 2008 by danvillnews

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Experts believe that the impact of science museums in education efforts (AP)

May 15th, 2008 by danvillnews

AP - Three or four times a day, a banana shows at the Science Center of Liberty and complains of pain in his face. And that means it’s time for some visiting children dressed as surgeons and nurses scrubs, take a scalpel and go to work.

Gene therapy experiments improve vision in nearly blind (AP)

May 13th, 2008 by danvillnews

This undated  image released by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia shows doctors Albert Maguire, left, along with wife Jean Bennett at the University of Pennsylvania. The two are part of two teams of scientists in the United States and Britain that are using gene therapy to dramatically improve vision in four patients with an inherited eye disease that causes blindness in children. The results of the experimental treatment were published online Sunday by the New England Journal of Medicine. (AP Photo/Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Daniel Burke) AP - Scientists have for the first time used gene therapy to improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, development experts called a big step forward for technical experimentation.

Warrior MOSQUITO plan under fire in Malaysia: report (AFP)

May 12th, 2008 by danvillnews

A mosquito bloated with blood it inserts its stinger into a human's arm. Environmentalists have condemned a trial plan to deploy millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in Malaysia to fight dengue fever, a report said.(AFP/USDA-HO/File) AFP - Environmentalists have condemned a trial plan to deploy millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in Malaysia to combat dengue , A report said Sunday.

Broken water main floods Boston's financial district (AP)

May 10th, 2008 by danvillnews

AP - pre-dawn water main break Saturday turned into Boston’s financial district on streets rivers, forced the closure of a subway station and cut off natural gas service.

Protein help fill the scrapbook in dino family tree (Reuters)

May 9th, 2008 by danvillnews

The reconstructed head of a Dromaeosaur-like Theropod dinosaur at the Australian Museum in Sydney, March 14, 2008. Scraps of protein from the bones of a 68 million-year-old dinosaur and a mastodon carcass confirm their places in the family tree of life on Earth, researchers reported on Thursday. (Will Burgess/Reuters) Reuters - Scraps of protein from the bones of a 68 million years, dinosaurs and a mastodon channel confirm their places in the tree Life on Earth, researchers reported on Thursday.

San Diego relieved to see no sign of shark murderer (AP)

May 8th, 2008 by danvillnews

Claudia Bueno throws a toy into the surf for her dog Cliff in Solana Beach, Calif., Saturday, April 26, 2008. A shark on Friday attacked and killed a swimmer training in the ocean with a group of triathletes at the beach, authorities said. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) AP - The fear and shock turned to distrust relief as a golden beach in Southern California with the weekend unspooled no more than the great white shark that killed a swimmer in a rare attack near San Diego.

Second test Galileo satellite, launched for, reaches orbit (AFP)

May 7th, 2008 by danvillnews

Workmen prepare the Galilieo (GIOVE-B) satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) on its launch pad at Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, on April 23. The satellite was launched early Sunday.(AFP/File) AFP - A second pilot Giove - B satellite in the EU Galileo satellite navigation project was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to early Sunday.

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May 5th, 2008 by danvillnews

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