• Bodies of missing lobster fishermen found off N.B. coast

  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 ...

• Hofstra University student killed by cops in hostage standoff

  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 ...

• Can one director win a two-franchise space race

  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 ...

• Mice and other critters land in Russia after 30 days in space not all survive

  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 ...

• Arsenals Theo Walcott curbed but Laurent Koscielny finds vital space | Michael Cox

  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 ...

• Obama tries to bounce back after tough week

  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, ...

• HSSM needs to place 50 cats and kittens to make space for incoming animals

  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 ...

• 6 lost hikers rescued after cold night in Alberta wilderness

  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 ...

• Rodents space capsule returns to Russia

  A biological research satellite capsule returned to Earth Sunday with its mice, gerbils, geckos and plants after a 30-day flight, Russian space officials said. The capsule landed shortly after 7 a.m., and officials immediately opened its hatches to bring the animals out of the capsule, RIA Novosti reported. Russia launched the biological satellite April 19 with eight Mongolian gerbils, 45 ...

• Science and Faith A Search for the Truth

  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, ...

• National Science Challenges Big science experiment leaves expert cold

  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 ...

• Group wants Victoria Day holiday to be renamed

  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 ...

• A second chance to save the climate

  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 ...

• Rodents Return from Space Trip

  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 ...

• How Space Tourism Could Help Save Planet Earth

  '); 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, ...

• Nigel Wright Harpers chief of staff resigns

  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 ...

• Mice and lizards return from a month in space aboard an orbiting Russian capsule

  MOSCOW - A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind. Fewer than half of the 53 mice and other rodents who blasted off on April 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome survived the flight, Russian news agencies reported, quoting Vladimir Sychov, deputy ...

• USGS Initiative Studying Impact Of Climate Change On Amphibians

  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 ...

• Attack Of The Crazy Ants Invasive Species Spreading Throughout US Gulf Coast

  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 ...

• 6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism

  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, ...

• Mice and snails return from outer space

  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 ...

• Florida man arrested for driving naked allegedly stealing motorcycle

  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 ...

• Russia retrieves mice newts after space journey

  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 ...

• The Society of Timid Souls by Polly Morland – review

  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. ...

• Twins recruited to help promote science for Royal Institute of Australia

  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 ...

• Digital Multitasking Has Drawbacks On The Job

  Dr. Eyal Pe'er , Carnegie Mellon psychologist, believes that this shows the interrupted group learned from their experience the first time and their brains adapted. Helping them to focus more on what they were doing, the On High Alert group was able to marshal the extra brain power to prepare for an interruption. So, digital multitasking does have an effect on people's work ...

• Birdbooker Report 270 | GrrlScientist

  Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this week's report includes The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians; Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America; and a Photoalbum of the Birds of Uzbekistan; all of which were recently published in North America and the ...

• Wired Space Photo of the Day Dunes of Titan

  In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...

• North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row

  Reuters © North Korean soldiers look at a Chinese tourist boat as they work on the Hwanggumpyong Island, located in the middle of the Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, May 19, 2013. REUTERS/Jacky ...

• How Possessive The Apostrophes Place In Space

  Martha Brockenbrough, the founder of National Grammar Day and the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, tells host Rachel Martin about what she has referred to as an "apostrophe catastrophe." The U.S. Board on Geographic Names has a policy against possessive apostrophes in the names of places. The ...

• Winning ticket for $590M Powerball lottery sold in Florida

  The winning Powerball numbers are shown after being drawn at the Florida Lottery studio in Tallahassee May 18, 2013. The winning numbers are 22, 10, 13, 14, 52, and the Powerball number is 11. The Powerball jackpot is a record-setting $590.5 million. (REUTERS/Philip ...

• Could black holes be portals to other universes

  The objects scientists think are black holes could instead be wormholes leading to other universes, a new study says. If so, it would help resolve a quantum conundrum known as the black hole information paradox, but critics say it would also raise new problems, such as how the wormholes would form in the first ...

• UN chief Ban worried over N.Korea missile launch

  MOSCOW - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern on Sunday over North Korea's launch of short-range missiles, urging Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world powers.Ban, who spoke to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti during a visit to Moscow, called North Korea's launch of three short-range missiles from its east coast on ...

• No swarms in space DARPA axes $200mn ‘fractionated sat’ project

  USA After spending more than $200 million, the Pentagon's advanced research branch has decided to scrap one of its key space projects, System F6, which aimed to distribute functions of a big satellite into several small ones orbiting in a tight formation. The project, fully named Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated Free-flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange, was expected to ...

• Space Capsule Returns Cosmic Rodents to Earth after Month-Long Flight

  MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) – The returnable capsule of a biological research satellite has landed in the Russian Orenburg Region near the border with Kazakhstan, bringing mice, Mongolian gerbils, geckos and various microorganisms and plants back to Earth after their month-long flight, Mission Control said on Sunday. "The descent vehicle separated from the equipment module of the ...

• Science promises strawberry fields forever

  As Britain steels itself for the prospect of yet another washout summer, strawberry growers are finding themselves forced to come up with increasingly sophisticated ways of assessing the threat posed to their livelihoods by inclement weather.For fruit growers, predicting the weather is vital. It causes fruit yields to vary by as much as 70%, making for an erratic growing season if poor ...

• Disk Sorter Free can tell you what’s tying up all your hard drive space

  PC storage space is cheap these days, and if you've just bought one of the latest 4TB drives then the chances are you won't be worried about filling it any time soon. It's still important not to waste hard drive space, of course: the more clutter you have, the longer your file searches, virus scans, defrags and other system-wide operations will take. Understanding what's ...

• Does Prozac help artists be creative

  More than 40 million people globally take an SSRI antidepressant, among them many writers and musicians. But do they hamper the creative process, extinguishing the spark that produces great art, or do they enhance artistic ...

• Infra space Crisil for more policy regulatory reforms

  Crisil has pitched for urgent reforms in policy and regulatory areas to ensure that benefits of the progress achieved reach the bottom of the pyramid. "Infrastructure segments like power, road and ports have significantly evolved over the years mainly due to reforms, private sector interest and strong investment flows. Today, they are at a point which calls for the next level of initiatives ...

• Cops probe possible links between Bosma suspect missing woman

  Dellen Millard, left, has been charged with the first-degree murder of Tim Bosma. Cops are also probing possible between Millard and Laura Babcock's disappearance. (Handout/Facebook ...

• Two men charged with killing Malcolm Xs grandson

  Murder probe underway after Malcolm X's grandson dies Two men arrested in the fatal beating of the grandson of US civil rights activist Malcolm X were sent to prison on Saturday to await trial, a Mexico City court spokesman said. David Hernandez and Manuel Perez, waiters at the Palace nightclub near Mexico City's popular Garibaldi Square, face charges of murder and robbery, the ...

• City axes bra ban at historic Milwaukee bar

  (Fotolia) The owner of a Milwaukee bowling alley and bar who was recently told to remove hundreds of bras hanging from the ceiling due to it being a fire hazard has been allowed to put them back ...

• World science map grim for Latin America

  The highly respected Nature Scientific Reports journal has just published a map of the world's leading science cities and it looks pretty bad for emerging countries: It shows the planet's Northern Hemisphere full of lights and the south almost solidly ...

• Investigators examine fractured rail in Connecticut train crash

  1 of 4. Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, 2013. Some 20 to 25 people were injured on Friday in a train accident near Fairfield, Connecticut, a Fairfield Police spokesman said on ...

• Car plows through parade in Virginia dozens injured

  (File Photo) RICHMOND, Va. - A car driven by an elderly man who may have lost consciousness plowed through a small-town parade of hiking enthusiasts in southwestern Virginia on Saturday, injuring dozens of people, nine seriously enough to be sent to hospitals, authorities said. The incident occurred in the Appalachian town of Damascus at the start of the annual Trail Days festival, as the main ...

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