TOP 100 SCIENCE SITES
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| Shuttle Prepares to Undock From Station HOUSTON (AP) -- The 10 astronauts aboard the linked space shuttle and space station wrapped up their joint work on Sunday and got ready to say goodbye. With the hatches between the two spacecraft scheduled to be sealed around midday, the crew rushed to finish activating science racks inside the new Columbus module and packing the shuttle for the ride home to Earth.... hosted.ap.org |
Observatory: Polluted Worms Help Starling’s Song, but Not Mating Fitness To the long list of the unintended effects of environmental contaminants, add one — eating polluted worms affects the songs of male starlings. nytimes.com |
Spacewalkers have little room for error Endeavour's astronauts must beat the clock to properly stow an orbital inspection boom at the International Space Station. rssfeeds.usatoday.com |
What’s Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish Naturalists as far back as Aristotle have known that fish make sounds but scientists are now starting to try to record and understand the wide variety of noises. nytimes.com |
Reno urged to prepare for worse as earthquakes continue RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada's largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors.... hosted.ap.org |