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  1. Thinking Makes Us Pig Out LiveScience.com - Thu Sep 4, 11:11 AM ET Sent 144 times

    Food for thought: Intellectual activities make people eat more than when just resting, according to a study that sheds new light on brain food.

  2. Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US AP - Thu Sep 4, 9:20 PM ET Sent 7 times

    WASHINGTON - 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.

  3. Workers watch television monitors on the floor of the Xcel Center as a live briefing airs on the changes to the schedule for the Republican National Convention due to Hurricane Gustav as preparations are underway for the RNC in St. Paul, Minn., Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
    Out There: People Who Live Without TV LiveScience.com - Thu Sep 4, 9:50 AM ET Sent 6 times

    For many Americans the thought of life without TV is akin to forgoing food, shelter or, God forbid, the Internet. But about 1 to 2 percent of Americans do abstain from the boob tube, and they might seem like strange bedfellows.

  4. Lucy Kuptana weeds her garden in an old hockey arena converted to a greenhouse for growing vegetables 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of the Arctic Circle in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, August 26, 2008. The half-pipe shaped facility is North America's northern-most commercial greenhouse, and a virtual necessity for anyone interested in eating a fresh vegetable in Inuvik that has not been shipped in from a warmer climate. (Todd Korol/Reuters)
    Raising vegetables under Canada's midnight sun Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 2:44 PM ET Sent 6 times

    INUVIK, Northwest Territories (Reuters) - Amanda Joynt reached down and picked a fresh tomato from the vine. That's no small feat when you are living 200 km (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle in Canada's Far North.

  5. A couple stands at the embankment of the Volga River in Samara, about 1000 km (620 miles) southeast of Moscow May 18, 2007. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
    Marriage problems? Husband's genes may be to blame Reuters - Tue Sep 2, 2:21 PM ET Sent 6 times

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The same gene that affects a rodent's ability to mate for life may affect human marriages, Swedish and U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

  6. A woman gives her fingerprints to join a petition in a file photo. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
    New fingerprint method could unlock cold cases Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 7:09 PM ET Sent 5 times

    LONDON (Reuters) - It's a discovery that would make even Sherlock Holmes proud.

  7. ESA spacecraft set for flyby of Steins asteroid AP - Fri Sep 5, 5:04 AM ET Sent 5 times

    FRANKFURT, Germany - 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.

  8. Songstress and MAC AIDS Fund spokesperson Fergie strikes a pose following performances about the dangers of HIV and prevention methods from a group of New York City youth at Safe Space, a homeless drop-in center, on September 3, 2008. Fergie's visit is part of a launch of a new $2.3 million youth-focused funding initiative from the MAC AIDS Fund, designed to combat the spread of the disease among 15- to 24-year-olds who account for more than half of all new infections. Money for the new initiative was raised through sales of Fergie's limited edition MAC Viva Glam lip gloss, one of eight products in the makeup line that dedicates 100 percent of the sales price to the MAC AIDS Fund.
    Gene may hold key to neutralizing HIV: U.S. study Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 3:40 PM ET Sent 4 times

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - The AIDS virus is especially hard to fight because few people develop antibodies to neutralize it, but U.S. researchers said on Thursday they have found an immunity gene that may offer a new way to fight back.

  9. Spore is More: Build Your Own Alien at Home SPACE.com - Thu Sep 4, 11:16 PM ET Sent 3 times

    "It's just a video game!" I hear you say. Well, sure, it is. And "Star Trek" was just a television show, too.

  10. Space shuttle Atlantis moves slowly on a six-hour journey to pad 39A in preparation for the upcoming STS-125 mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. Atlantis is scheduled to launch Oct. 8.(AP Photo/John Raoux)
    NASA moves space shuttle Atlantis to launch pad AP - Thu Sep 4, 2:55 PM ET Sent 2 times

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - 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.

  11. Why Dewdrops Stay on the Rose LiveScience.com - Thu Sep 4, 6:02 PM ET Sent 2 times

    Ah, roses. Their heady fragrance and delicate petals glistening with dew could soften the hardest heart.

  12. Dead For Years, Ferrets Finally Become Fathers LiveScience.com - Tue Sep 2, 2:51 PM ET Sent 1 times

    Black-footed ferrets at the Smithsonian's National Zoo have birthed two kits sired by males who died in 1999 and 2000.

  13. Look, Up in the Sky! Strange Star Names SPACE.com - 2 hours, 12 minutes ago Sent 1 times

    If you have ever considered "purchasing" a star for the purpose if attaching your name or the name of a friend or relative to it, the following tale is for you.

  14. Undated handout photo shows the 3D reconstruction of the skull of Toumai. 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.(AFP/MPFT/File)
    Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating AFP - Mon Sep 1, 7:58 PM ET Sent 1 times

    PARIS (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.

  15. Why Early Earth Did Not Freeze SPACE.com - Thu Sep 4, 6:46 AM ET Sent 1 times

    Early in Earth's history, our solar system was a much different place. When the sun was very young, it was faint and provided little heat for the Earth. However, even in its chilly beginnings, the surface of the Earth was ice-free.

  16. Mammoth Mystery: The Beasts' Final Years LiveScience.com - Thu Sep 4, 12:05 PM ET Sent 1 times

    Woolly mammoths' last stand before extinction in Siberia wasn't made by natives - rather, the beasts had American roots, researchers have discovered. Woolly mammoths once roamed the Earth for more than a half-million years, ranging from Europe to Asia to North America. These Ice Age giants vanished from mainland Siberia by 9,000 years ago, although mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until roughly 3,700 years ago. ...

  17. Strange New Comet Explains Old Mystery SPACE.com - Thu Sep 4, 4:01 PM ET Sent 1 times

    Halley's comet, which lights up Earth's sky every 75 years with its glowing tail, is a bit of a scientific mystery.

  18. The wooden "Globe" at the entrance of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN, near Geneva. People who fear a powerful atom-smashing machine, due to start operations next Wednesday, will cause Earth to be gobbled up or reduced to grey goo can rest assured, according to a study(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)
    Apocalypse Not: Atom-smasher won't doom planet, says study AFP - Thu Sep 4, 8:33 PM ET Sent 1 times

    PARIS (AFP) - People who fear a powerful atom-smashing machine, due to start operations next Wednesday, will cause Earth to be gobbled up or reduced to grey goo can rest assured, according to a study released Friday.

  19. This image provided by NASA Wednesday Aug. 6, 2008 shows Polar Mesospheric Clouds (also known as noctilucent clouds) are transient, upper atmospheric phenomena observed usually in the summer months at high latitudes (greater than 50 degrees) of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. They are bright and cloudlike in appearance while in deep twilight. They are illuminated by sunlight when the lower layers of the atmosphere are in the darkness of the Earth's shadow. This image was acquired at an altitude of just over 200 miles in the pre-dawn hours of July 22, 2008 as the International Space Station was passing over western Mongolia in central Asia. The dark horizon of the Earth appears below with some layers of the lower atmosphere already illuminated. The higher, bluish-colored clouds look much like wispy cirrus clouds which can be found in the troposphere as high as 60,000 feet. However noctilucent clouds, as seen here, are observed in the mesosphere at altitudes of 250,000 to 280,000 feet. (AP Photo/NASA)
    Strange Clouds Spotted at the Edge of Space SPACE.com - Mon Sep 1, 9:02 AM ET Sent 1 times

    A weirdly wonderful sight appeared to astronauts aboard the International Space Station this summer — thin blue clouds hovering at the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and the void.

  20. Volcano's Eruption Colors World's Sunsets LiveScience.com - Wed Sep 3, 10:51 AM ET Sent 1 times

    Reports of unusually fiery orange sunsets on Earth and ruby red rings around the planet Venus have popped up on the Internet in the last week. Some skywatchers suspect that these views are being colored by the dust and gases injected into the atmosphere by the Aug. 7 eruption of Alaska's Kasatochi volcano. The skywatchers are probably right. Kasatochi, part of the Aleutian Island chain, sent an ash plume more than 35,000 feet (10,600 meters) into the atmosphere when it erupted last month. ...

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