Provides the latest RSS feeds for Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Nigeria Sun.com http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/cat/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 15:22:19 -0400 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:22:19 -0400 30 Time spent by asthma patients soaking up the sun may help in the treatment of the illness, a research has said. A team of scientists at King's College London said vitamin D, which is made by the body in sunlight, calms an "over-active" part of the immune system in asthma, BBC reported. However, treating patients with vitamin D has not yet been tested. People with asthma find it hard to breathe ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214634193/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:20:01 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214634193/scat/a9927dde6777aafc India's rising star director Anurag Kashyap has complained that filmmakers in in the country still do not enjoy the kind of freedom of space and expression that would allow them to make meaningful films. "Today, we are forced to treat our audience as children of less than five years and hence we have to only make goody-goody films with a huge dose of escapism. I want to have the option making ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214634185/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:10:01 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214634185/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Russian capsule, which had mice and lizards as its occupants, returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space. According to scientists, the experiment was conducted to test effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on the cell structure, Fox News reported. Russian state television showed the capsule and some of its inhabitants following its safe landing in a ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214624472/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:10:02 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214624472/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Medtronic and Boston Scientific is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court, the high court announced Monday. The two patents involved cover cardiac resynchronization therapy, or CRT, which gives the heart an electrical shock when its two blood-pumping chambers, or ventricles, get out of sync with each other. Last September, a federal appeals court reversed the ruling of a federal court judge in ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638500/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:57:47 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638500/scat/a9927dde6777aafc climate change may be overstated. In the study, the international team of researchers looked to see how doubling the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the Earth’s subsequent response would impact climate over several thousand years, a method known as climate sensitivity. The analysis used temperatures from the last decade and found that the projected increase would be ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638534/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:29 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638534/scat/a9927dde6777aafc dogs have been used to sniff out bombs on land. Now, scientists are incorporating honeybees in the hunt for unexploded landmines in Croatia and possibly other war-ravaged countries in the Balkans. Bees have a perfect sense of smell and scientists believe that smell might save hundreds of lives if they can be trained to sniff out the odor from unexploded ordnance (UXOs). Tens of thousands of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214639663/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:29 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214639663/scat/a9927dde6777aafc /enpproperty--> Writing rosy poetry should be second nature to liberal arts students, but now Chinese science and engineering students have their own literature. On May 20, a date that in Chinese sounds similar to "I love you", the 10 most romantic love poems written by science majors nationwide were chosen from more than 600 ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214639664/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:51 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214639664/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CHICAGO (CBS) — A statue was unveiled at a southwest side elementary school, in honor of the space crew killed in a space shuttle disaster ten years ago, reports WBBM’s Craig Dellimore. The Columbia Explorers Academy on South Kedzie was built to honor the astronauts of the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of that tragedy, Alderman Edward Burke ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214639248/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:26:43 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214639248/scat/a9927dde6777aafc First time firing a gun? There's help at hand - a new "self-aiming" rifle can help even a novice hit the target at long range on the first go. But the technology has its critics, who see it as a serious threat to public ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214639665/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:24:08 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214639665/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the Sikorsky JH-19 Chickasaw was used for several purposes, including dropping research models. The Sikorsky helicopter is seen here, in March of 1965, in the middle of its NASA career, with a model of the Apollo spacecraft attached to the drop mount near the cargo door. The H-19 was later sent to the Navy's Cheatham Annex in Yorktown, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:51:09 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc creationism law, the misnamed Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA).The law allows non-science to be snuck into science classrooms by teachers who use supplemental materials to "critique" politically controversial (but not scientifically controversial) theories, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214637381/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:44:04 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214637381/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This stunning space wallpaper is a Landsat image of the Clearwater Lakes in Canada's Quebec province. Located to the east of the Hudson Bay, what appears to be two separate lakes is actually a single body of water that fills two depressions. The depressions were created by two meteorite impacts, believed to have hit Earth simultaneously up to 290 million years ago. The name 'Clearwater ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638296/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:29:44 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638296/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Memorial Day is rapidly approaching; and here in the Northeast, that is the traditional start of summer's season of fun in the sun. For many beach communities in Long Island and New Jersey, it will include an effort to demonstrate a measure of normalcy, and a sense of recovery. In some towns that won't be possible, in some we will see a partial recovery and in still others, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638297/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:31 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638297/scat/a9927dde6777aafc YouTube video of Gygan Gygan, launched decades before the first home computer, was regarded as sophisticated for its day, capable of responding to spoken or light ray commands. It could pick up objects, and at its equally successful appearance at a fair at Olympia in London, it danced jerkily with a model - who clearly hadn't seen the crushed base of the tin can it had just picked up.One ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214637584/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214637584/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A former army test pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake will live and work on the space station for six months in November 2015. At a news conference at the Science Museum in London, where he was announced as the first UK astronaut in space for 20 years, he said it is a great ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214637428/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:24 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214637428/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An experimental stem-cell treatment has restored the sight of a man blinded by the degeneration of his retinal cells. The man, who is taking part in a trial examining the safety of using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to reverse two common causes of blindness, can now see well enough to be allowed to ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638298/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:17:16 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638298/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Boulder County Bomb Squad's robot checks a suspicious package next to parking lot at Fairview High School in Boulder, May 20, 2013. (Mark Leffingwell/Daily ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:14:01 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214638299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A "Blue Marble" image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's Earth-observing satellite -- Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on Jan. 4, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214635804/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 11:42:57 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214635804/scat/a9927dde6777aafc "Who invented clothes?" It's one of those brilliant questions that children ask, before they learn that the big things we wonder about rarely have simple answers. It's the kind of thing that archaeologists like me get put on the spot about when chatting to kids, and we love to have a crack at answering.Saturday's "Ask a grown up" section featured just that ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214636694/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 11:39:36 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214636694/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tornadoes tear through Texas The central United States braced for violent thunderstorms on Monday that could bring more hail, heavy rain and tornadoes to the region stricken by a deadly twister over the weekend. The National Weather Service said severe storms would likely pummel the Ozarks and the middle Mississippi Valley, with northwest Arkansas, far southeast Kansas, southern Missouri, most ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214635452/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 11:29:55 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214635452/scat/a9927dde6777aafc denied their motion to overturn the Salazar decision on constitutional grounds. A tactical, piecemeal circumvention of the ban has had better luck in the bureaucracy of the U.S. Forest Service. The USFS, despite the anti-mining intent of their boss President Obama, authorized a Canadian company to dig uranium six miles from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214636465/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 11:27:38 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214636465/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Alaska's Pavlof Volcano, which roared back to life on May 13, continues to send ash and steam nearly 20,000 feet into the air, just below the threshold that experts deem becomes a threat to air traffic in the region. Over the weekend, Pavlof also began spewing lava hundreds of feet into the air. The 8,262-foot-high Pavlof, which is located about 625 miles southeast of Anchorage along ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214635051/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:42:06 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214635051/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Severe weather was the big news this past weekend. There were many tornadoes reported from Texas to Iowa and back into the Northern Plains. The tornadoes did plenty of damage and there were even some fatalities reported. These storms fired up each and every day over the weekend. The Plains also dealt with strong winds and large ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214635288/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:42:06 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214635288/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Brad Deering (Facebook photo) A Costa Rican newspaper says a Canadian man who was killed in that country last week was the victim of a targeted attack. The Costa Rican Times says Brad Deering, a 42-year-old native of Vancouver, B.C. and a Costa Rican resident, was killed Thursday by three gunmen who police believe were attempting to rob his home in a gated community in San Jose. The paper says ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214634615/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:26:47 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214634615/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The history of crowd control reached a milestone as Boba Fett stood guard at the Sorcerer's Hat Stage. After my recent adventures in space history and space history-in-the-making, it's only fitting that I spend the third and final episode in this shameless series of work-related outings immersed in space fantasy. And seeing as how it's billed as a "trilogy," why don't I do ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214634293/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 09:54:01 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214634293/scat/a9927dde6777aafc DSM 5 - was published over the weekend. Produced by the American Psychiatric Association, it describes the symptoms of a vast range of mental illnesses and is intended as a guide to diagnosis.Why should we in the UK care? Simple: the political dominance of the US means that as soon as a mental disorder is named in the DSM, that disorder becomes valid in the eyes of many.But not everyone is a fan. ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214633167/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 09:33:29 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214633167/scat/a9927dde6777aafc David Willetts, the science minister, said he hoped Tim Peake, pictured above at the Science Museum, would inspire children to become the next generation of scientists and engineers Photograph: Suzanne ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214633453/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 09:16:26 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214633453/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Are quantum computers about to revolutionise our lives? You might think so now that Google has bought one from the only organisation that sells them, D-Wave of Burnaby, Canada. However, questions remain over just how D-Wave's quantum computers work and whether they would beat ordinary computers in like-on-like ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214633948/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 09:08:07 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214633948/scat/a9927dde6777aafc As many as one in five children aged 3 to 17 years old experiences a mental health disorder each year, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214632848/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 08:08:52 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214632848/scat/a9927dde6777aafc >Editor's note: Meg Urry is the Israel Munson professor of physics and astronomy and chairwoman of the department of physics at Yale University, where she is the director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.(CNN) -- On Wednesday, NASA officials announced a serious problem with the Kepler satellite, the world's most successful planet-finding machine. Since its launch four years ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214633942/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:45:02 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214633942/scat/a9927dde6777aafc New York City seems alien enough to many of its visitors, but imagine how strange it would look if whisked away to another planet. A new art project does just that, transplanting the Big Apple to ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214631719/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:41:11 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214631719/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Saturn's atmosphere is similar to that of Jupiter. Again, NYC is shown at about 62 miles above a layer of liquid hydrogen and helium, amid clouds of ammonia ice with occasional thunderstorms. As with Jupiter, atmospheric gases are highly reducing and would slowly dissolve any metal oxide surface, like the green patina that covers the Statue of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214631720/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:41:10 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214631720/scat/a9927dde6777aafc One of the key elements to understanding the proliferation of life on Earth is modeling how electron transfer - the passage of an electron from one element to another - can be catalyzed. But the environmental conditions on Earth some 3 billion years ago were much different than they are today. For one, there was a distinct lack of molecular oxygen in the atmosphere, because it is readily ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214631715/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:40:06 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214631715/scat/a9927dde6777aafc redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are looking to events of the past to better understand how rainfall patterns across the Indo-Pacific warm pool - the massive pool of warm water stretching along the equator from Africa to the western Pacific Ocean - will change due ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214631716/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:40:05 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214631716/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 20 May 2013 A former Army test pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS) - and says it will be less dangerous than his old ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214631717/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:30:49 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214631717/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Image: USGS/ESA) "I'VE a feeling we're not in Kansas any more." Indeed not, we are 700 kilometres above Kansas, looking down from the venerable Landsat 5 satellite. What you can see is how huge swathes of the state have been given over to agriculture. It ain't known as the nation's breadbasket for ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214631724/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:20:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214631724/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WAM ABU DHABI, 20th May, 2013 (WAM) -- The Secretary General of the OIC, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has cautioned that the future of science in the OIC Member States would depend on their ability to address the practical challenges of scientific development and take the right policy decisions to fully exploit technology's development potential. In a public lecture organized by the New York ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214630880/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:07:12 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214630880/scat/a9927dde6777aafc North Korean leader Kim Jong-un applauds with children uring a visit to the Pyongyang Myohyangsan Children's Camp, situated at the foot of Mt. Myohyang in North Phyongan Province, in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 20, 2013. ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214629233/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 06:29:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214629233/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CERN Council European Strategy Group (our draft strategy will hopefully be adopted in Brussels next week). So we both had things to say about each others topic.I know from experience that applying for, and spending, EU research funds used to be very bureaucratic and arguably not worth the effort. Most initiatives were not primarily targetted at research excellence, but at training, or at ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214629272/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 06:22:22 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214629272/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Taiwan's national space programme offered Wednesday its satellite images of the damage caused by powerful tsunamis that ravaged Asia at the weekend to affected countries and aid groups for free.The National Space Programme Office (NSPO) normally charges 3,000 euros (4,080 dollars) for each photograph covering an area of 600 square kilometres (240 square miles), the office said.The images ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214629831/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:51 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214629831/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Thursday.Roskomos spokesman Vyacheslav Davydenko told AFP that since the US space shuttles stopped supplying the jointly manned station in the wake of the February 2003 Columbia disaster Russia had been shouldering ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214629860/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:51 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214629860/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This well-constructed and engaging "flap book" is interesting, accurate and highly interactive -- a wonderful introduction to space for young ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214629070/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 05:42:03 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214629070/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Consciousness: The what, why and how " THE first time I saw my father in hospital after his stroke, I was disturbed to find that my strong and confident dad had been replaced by someone confused and childlike. Besides being concerned about whether or not he would recover, I was struck by the profound metaphysical implications of what had just happened. At the time I was a few weeks away from ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214629071/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 05:21:09 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214629071/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An Africa-wide forum for parliamentarians which aims to give science, technology and innovation a more central role in the policy-making process was launched this ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628605/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 05:16:21 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628605/scat/a9927dde6777aafc .Speaking at a rehearsal studio in west London today, Stewart said the secret of the record's success was that it drew on his long experience of life."I'm over the moon, absolutely over the moon. It's a long time in between but it's always worth waiting for," he said"I've lived a wonderful life and when I was putting the book together it inspired many of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628104/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:47:45 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628104/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Russian space officials announced that a capsule containing mice and lizards has returned to Earth, but most of them died during their time in space, according to media reports Monday. The Bion-M capsule, carrying 45 mice, 15 newts, snails, lizards, plants, microflora, and eight gerbils, landed softly in the Orenburg Region, about 1,200 km southeast of Moscow, but majority of the mice and newts ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214627830/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:46:03 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214627830/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 20 May 2013 A former helicopter pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), it has been ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628105/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:42:44 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628105/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214626890/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:21:07 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214626890/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214627575/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:20:47 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214627575/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628106/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:17:16 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628106/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628107/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:17:10 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628107/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628108/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:17:08 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628108/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628109/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:17:07 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628109/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Quantico, Va. (Photo courtesy FBI) Two FBI special agents were killed during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va., on Friday, the agency said in a statement released Sunday. Special agents Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, 40, were part of the elite Hostage Rescue Team, which is part of the Critical Incident Response Group, and is based in Quantico, Va. Details of the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628110/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:16:18 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214628110/scat/a9927dde6777aafc dinosaurs , it's only when the latter became extinct that they really expanded and dominated. So we would not expect to find for example, the skull of an ungulate alongside bits of non-avian dinosaur bones. So when these claims are made, do they challenge accepted theory of the temporal distributions of life on earth or is something else at work? While certainly we would not expect such ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214626640/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 03:53:03 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214626640/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625902/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:42 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625902/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625901/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:42 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625901/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625903/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:38 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625903/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625904/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:37 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625904/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625905/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:36 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625905/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625906/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:35 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625906/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625907/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:32 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625907/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625908/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:30 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625908/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625910/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:26 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625910/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625909/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:26 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625909/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625911/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:25 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625911/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625912/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:22 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625912/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625913/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:21 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625913/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625914/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:19 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214625914/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems and the lead researcher for the Bion-M project, talks to reporters Sunday while others examine the "space ark" capsule in the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214624931/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:10:40 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214624931/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214624932/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 01:47:15 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214624932/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The British space industry is being given a boost with confirmation that Britain's first official astronaut is to take part in a mission on the International Space Station in 2015. Major Tim Peake has undergone 14 months of rigorous training, which has included survival courses and exercises under water and underground. Now almost three years after graduating as an astronaut, the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214623950/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 01:07:08 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214623950/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Amateur rocketeer Ken Biba speaks at Maker Faire Bay Area on May 18, 2013. At left is the rocket he and his team built, which flew to more 104,000 feet in September ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214623694/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 00:11:44 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214623694/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (28 mins ago) South Korea's Bae Sang Moon won his first US PGA title yesterday, firing a one-under par 69 to win the US$6.7 million Byron Nelson Championship by two strokes over American Keegan Bradley in Irving, Texas, in the US. In windy conditions at the TPC Four Seasons Resort course, the 26-year-old South Korean finished on 13-under 267 to hold off 2011 PGA Championship winner ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214622146/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 21:34:25 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214622146/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MONTREAL - Candidates vying to replace departing Liberal MP Denis Coderre have been jostling for position ever since it was only a rumour he was going to run for the Montreal mayor's job. Coderre made his mayoral bid official Thursday and won't leave his MP office until June 1, however, the Liberal party has already received at least 25 resumes from interested candidates, according to ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214621629/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 20:26:01 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214621629/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Most of the mice, gerbils and other animals Russia sent to space a month ago died in the flight meant to test the effects of extended periods of time in ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214620664/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 20:02:54 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214620664/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Satellite imagery can serve as a time machine, revealing dramatic change in just a few seconds - but can you imagine documenting almost three decades' worth of all that change, across most of our planet's land mass? A team of imaging experts, computer scientists and journalists did. Now they've unveiled the result: a global database of zoomable, animated satellite views known ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214620553/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 19:56:26 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214620553/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A view of fog over the New York skyline. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) NEW YORK - Greenwich Village, the birthplace of the U.S. gay rights movement, remained in shock on Sunday over the shooting death of a gay man by a gunman who police said uttered anti-gay slurs before targeting the victim. Mark Carson, 32, was shot dead in Greenwich Village around midnight on Friday in what police are calling a ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214620532/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 19:55:00 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214620532/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home Friday, May 17, 2013, amid allegations there is a video showing him smoking crack cocaine. (CRAIG ROBERTSON/QMI ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214620554/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 19:54:58 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214620554/scat/a9927dde6777aafc and was delivered to an invited audience at The Institution of Engineering and Technology on 13 May.To find out more about Cory Doctorow's writings go to his ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214620444/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 19:13:21 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214620444/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Two more bodies were found Sunday near a sunken lobster boat that went down after hitting a sandbar in rough water. Three crewmen were missing after the boat hit a sandbar about 5:30 a.m. Saturday and took on water. Hours later, the body of a 23-year-old man was recovered on the shoreline near where the boat sank. A 35-year-old man and a 32-year-old man remained missing but were located about ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214619594/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 18:16:50 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214619594/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Andrea Rebello. (Instagram) A 21-year-old university student who was taken hostage in her apartment and then shot to death during a police standoff with an armed robber on New York’s Long Island was killed by a bullet fired from an officer’s gun, investigators said on Sunday. Andrea Rebello was shot in the head on Friday by one of eight rounds fired at Dalton Smith, who had the woman ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214618999/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 17:27:45 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214618999/scat/a9927dde6777aafc subculture.And now the stars have truly aligned, at least in Hollywood, with science fiction's two most storied screen franchises orbiting one creative mind: director J.J. Abrams. The 46-year-old pop culture savant is slated to unveil the seventh ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214618923/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 16:53:55 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214618923/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems and the lead researcher for the Bion-M project, talks to reporters Sunday while others examine the "space ark" capsule in the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214618185/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 15:59:12 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214618185/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Laurent Koscielny, right, the Arsenal goalscorer, celebrates the 1-0 defeat of Newcastle United with Kieran Gibbs, left, and Per Mertesacker. Photograph: Richard Sellers/Sportsphoto/Sportsphoto ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214618429/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 15:56:24 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214618429/scat/a9927dde6777aafc U.S. President Barack Obama adjusts his tie before receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the graduation ceremony of the class of 2013 at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia May 19, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214618198/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 15:43:38 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214618198/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Coastal residents added their voices to those calling for the end of energy policies that hurt the environment. The Hands Across the Sand demonstrations took place on beaches around the world on ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617976/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 15:13:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617976/scat/a9927dde6777aafc London, May 19 : Britain's first "official" astronaut, 41-year-old Major Tim Peake, has been selected to go on a five-month mission to the International Space Station in 2015, a media report said ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617671/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 15:07:00 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617671/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Area near Ware creek in Kananaskis Country. Photo courtesy Mike Koppang CALGARY -- Six lost hikers were rescued Sunday morning after a short stroll turned into an overnight stay in the Kananaskis Country wilderness. The group of friends from Black Diamond, Alta., were random camping along the Gorge Creek Trail and decided to go for a short walk about 11 a.m. Saturday, Kananaskis public safety ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617659/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 14:54:57 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617659/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.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617967/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 14:38:46 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617967/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Minister Steven Joyce is sure the 10 new National Science Challenges are a turning point for Kiwi science. Yet a prominent professor thinks it's too middle-of-the-road, Jamie Morton ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617223/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 14:05:55 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617223/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thousands of people witness a spectacular fireworks show to cap off the 11th annual Rotary Victoria Day Fireworks and Family Night on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at Del Crary Park in Peterborough, Ont. (Clifford Skarstedt/QMI AGENCY) A group of prominent Canadians is asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change the name of Canada’s national Victoria Day holiday to Victoria and First Peoples ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617165/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 14:03:04 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617165/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Humanity has a second chance to stop dangerous climate change. Temperature data from the last decade offers an unexpected opportunity to stay below the agreed international target of 2 C of global ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617444/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 13:57:57 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617444/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSCOW – A Russian capsule carrying mice and lizards has returned to Earth after spending a month in space. Scientists say the experiment is intended to test the effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on cell structure. Russian state television showed the capsule and some of its inhabitants after it landed safely Sunday in a planted field near Orenburg, about 1,200 ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617448/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 13:56:12 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214617448/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Women need to be encouraged into studying the field of computer science where they are well under-represented, a top computer scientist says. It is estimated that in New Zealand women make up less than 30 per cent of technical roles in the computing industry. University of Canterbury (UC) computer scientist Professor Tim Bell says that needs to change, given the "huge demand" for graduates in the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214622145/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 13:30:00 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214622145/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); A "Blue Marble" image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's Earth-observing satellite -- Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on Jan. 4, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214616900/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 13:08:41 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214616900/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mike Duffy given $90Gs by PMO Chief of Staff Nigel Wright to pay back housing expenses OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff has resigned his post after helping Sen. Mike Duffy to repay $90,000 in improperly claimed expenses. "In light of the controversy surrounding my handling of matters involving Senator Duffy, the prime minister has accepted my resignation as ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214616901/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 12:52:17 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214616901/scat/a9927dde6777aafc space .Scientists say the experiment is intended to test the effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on cell structure.Russian state television showed the capsule and some of its inhabitants after it landed safely in a planted field near Orenburg on Sunday. The report said not all of the animals survived the flight.Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214615642/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 11:38:23 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214615642/scat/a9927dde6777aafc climate change on amphibians living in the ponds and swamps of the southeastern United States has discovered that changes in rainfall patterns can cause short-term declines ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214615273/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 10:53:23 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214615273/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Residents of the Gulf Coast are in the midst of an invasion – an ant invasion. An invasive and ecologically dominant species of ant is reportedly displacing the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214615272/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 10:53:23 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214615272/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Rosalind Franklin ,a British biophysicist who also studied DNA. Her data were critical to Crick and Watson's work, but as several commenters noted, Franklin was robbed of recognition. (See her section below for details.) She wasnot the first woman to have endured indignities in the male-dominated world of science, but Franklin's case is especially egregious, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214615267/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 10:38:49 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214615267/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Moscow: A Russian capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals returned from a month's mission in orbit on Sunday with data scientists hope will pave the way for a manned flight to Mars.Russian Mission Control said the Bion-M craft landed softly with the help of a special parachute system in the Orenburg Region about 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) southeast of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214615274/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 10:37:28 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214615274/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Police in Florida said they arrested a man twice within a 12-hour period, once for driving his car naked and a second time for allegedly stealing a motorcycle. Brian Blake Bienvenu, 24, of Delray Beach, Fla., began his alleged crime spree at 2:20 a.m. local time Thursday, when a security official at Highland Beach Club observed him parking his vehicle in the nude, police said. Bienvenu tried to ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214615237/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 10:26:22 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214615237/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Russian Federation A Russian capsule containing mice, newts and other small animals has returned from a month's mission in orbit.Russian mission control said the Bion-M craft landed softly with the help of a special parachute system in the Orenburg Region about 1,200 kilometres south-east of Moscow.The capsule was also carrying snails and gerbils as well as some plants and ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214614264/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 09:03:00 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214614264/scat/a9927dde6777aafc You might think an inquiry into the nature of courage a trumped-up excuse for a book but Polly Morland loses no time in persuading you otherwise. She approaches her subject with energy, tenacious curiosity and, however much she may protest that she is lily-livered, courage. ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214613869/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 08:17:15 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214613869/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MEET Sara and Sanja Krneta - the identical twins recruited by the RiAus Science Exchange to help peak their peers' interest in science as an area of study. The Year 12 Australian Science and Mathematics School students, who came to Adelaide as Bosnian refugees in 2001, are producing a series of online videos to promote science as fun and exciting. "What we've found is that children ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214614255/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 08:00:00 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214614255/scat/a9927dde6777aafc