Copyright (c) 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/753 Science News en-us Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:10:11 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/753 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_sc/troubled_delta ap/20070901/troubled_delta Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:10:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_sc/troubled_delta"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070831/capt.9dd88e4874bd471fa357de141e5d8c95.troubled_smelt_fx105.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=uig_857UEZLiQ2JuQo8voQ--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Tiny fish, including delta smelt, caught in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, are seen through a microscope this file photo from July 25, 2005, at a California Department of Fish and Game laboratory in Stockton, Calif. Environmentalists say the fish population has declined because state and federal water pumps suck in and kill smelt which ordinarily spawn in the delta's upper reaches in spring and reach the San Francisco Bay each summer. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - A federal judge on Friday imposed limits on water flows caused by huge pumps sending water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta to users around the state, saying the pumps were drawing in and destroying a threatened fish.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_sc/troubled_delta"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070831/capt.9dd88e4874bd471fa357de141e5d8c95.troubled_smelt_fx105.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=uig_857UEZLiQ2JuQo8voQ--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="photo" title="Tiny fish, including delta smelt, caught in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, are seen through a microscope this file photo from July 25, 2005, at a California Department of Fish and Game laboratory in Stockton, Calif. Environmentalists say the fish population has declined because state and federal water pumps suck in and kill smelt which ordinarily spawn in the delta's upper reaches in spring and reach the San Francisco Bay each summer. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_re_eu/un_climate_conference ap/20070831/un_climate_conference Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:48:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_re_eu/un_climate_conference"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070901/capt.sge.pyb55.010907065649.photo00.photo.default-355x512.jpg?x=90&y=130&sig=FV7GkKxsGXDu62NJYQSHRQ--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prays during a ceremony in Jakarta, on 17 Aug. By President&#39;s initiative, Indonesia has proposed that eight countries home to some 80 percent of the world&#39;s tropical rainforests join diplomatic ranks amid rising climate change concerns.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)" border="0" /></a>AP - Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world's biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_re_eu/un_climate_conference"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070901/capt.sge.pyb55.010907065649.photo00.photo.default-355x512.jpg?x=90&y=130&sig=FV7GkKxsGXDu62NJYQSHRQ--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="photo" title="Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prays during a ceremony in Jakarta, on 17 Aug. By President&#39;s initiative, Indonesia has proposed that eight countries home to some 80 percent of the world&#39;s tropical rainforests join diplomatic ranks amid rising climate change concerns.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_sc/mars_rovers ap/20070901/mars_rovers Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:01:17 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_sc/mars_rovers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070901/capt.dd920ebafda54b6fac2da6856383bd10.mars_rovers_ny107.jpg?x=130&y=130&sig=t8LNpspV4D7iCz35z1PO0Q--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="Image provided by NASA shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity using its front hazard-identification camera to obtain this image at the end of a drive on the rover's 1,271st sol, or Martian day (Aug. 21, 2007). Opportunity's turret of four tools at the end of the robotic arm fills the center of the image. Victoria Crater, site of the rover's next science targets, lies ahead. Mars rovers are back in the exploration business after enduring a lengthy Red Planet dust bowl that blocked most of the sunlight they need for power. With skies gradually brightening, the solar-powered rovers Spirit and Opportunity recently resumed driving and other operations that had been suspended during the dust storm. (AP Photo/NASA)" border="0" /></a>AP - They're old and dirty, but NASA's Mars rovers are back in the exploration business after enduring a lengthy Red Planet dust bowl that blocked most of the sunlight they need for power.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_sc/mars_rovers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070901/capt.dd920ebafda54b6fac2da6856383bd10.mars_rovers_ny107.jpg?x=130&y=130&sig=t8LNpspV4D7iCz35z1PO0Q--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="photo" title="Image provided by NASA shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity using its front hazard-identification camera to obtain this image at the end of a drive on the rover's 1,271st sol, or Martian day (Aug. 21, 2007). Opportunity's turret of four tools at the end of the robotic arm fills the center of the image. Victoria Crater, site of the rover's next science targets, lies ahead. Mars rovers are back in the exploration business after enduring a lengthy Red Planet dust bowl that blocked most of the sunlight they need for power. With skies gradually brightening, the solar-powered rovers Spirit and Opportunity recently resumed driving and other operations that had been suspended during the dust storm. (AP Photo/NASA)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/endangered_species ap/20070831/endangered_species Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:12:10 GMT AP - A federal judge has upheld the government's practice of allowing development to proceed even if it is discovered after a project begins that the work could endanger protected species. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_re_us/navy_whales ap/20070831/navy_whales Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:21:11 GMT AP - The Navy can use high-powered sonar during exercises off the Southern California coast, despite the technology's threat to whales and other marine mammals, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/us_nm/weather_depression_position_dc nm/20070831/weather_depression_position_dc Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:39:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/us_nm/weather_depression_position_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070901/2007_08_31t124206_450x300_us_weather_wave.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=I8ttSZVyNcfyEyucksvkSA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A tropical wave in the Atlantic Ocean about 250 miles east of the Windward Islands is seen in a satellite image taken on August 31, 2007. A tropical wave in the Atlantic Ocean strengthened into Tropical Depression 6 late Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A tropical wave in the Atlantic Ocean strengthened into Tropical Depression 6 late Friday and further strengthening was likely, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/us_nm/weather_depression_position_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070901/2007_08_31t124206_450x300_us_weather_wave.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=I8ttSZVyNcfyEyucksvkSA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A tropical wave in the Atlantic Ocean about 250 miles east of the Windward Islands is seen in a satellite image taken on August 31, 2007. A tropical wave in the Atlantic Ocean strengthened into Tropical Depression 6 late Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070831/sc_space/russiapreparesfor2009spacetouristflightfuturespacecraft space/20070831/russiapreparesfor2009spacetouristflightfuturespacecraft Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:00:26 GMT SPACE.com - MOSCOW -- Russia&#39;s Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov said Friday that a prominent Russian businessman-turned-politician is training to fly to space as a tourist in 2009 and underscored the need to cut his country&#39;s dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for manned space exploration. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/hl_afp/francebritaincrime afp/20070831/francebritaincrime Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:39:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/hl_afp/francebritaincrime"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.pwa86.310807182837.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=rs6t9aB4JXtQ0d.Xg9FOCA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="PETA activists disguised as fur-bearing animals demonstrate in front of a shop selling furry clothes 17 July in Berlin. British animal rights radicals claim to have contaminated dozens of vials of contact lense solution in France and antiseptic cream in Britain to protest against animal testing, Paris prosecutors said Friday.(AFP/DDP/File/Alex Schmidt)" border="0" /></a>AFP - British animal rights radicals claim to have contaminated dozens of vials of contact lense solution in France and antiseptic cream in Britain to protest against animal testing, Paris prosecutors said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/hl_afp/francebritaincrime"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.pwa86.310807182837.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=rs6t9aB4JXtQ0d.Xg9FOCA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="PETA activists disguised as fur-bearing animals demonstrate in front of a shop selling furry clothes 17 July in Berlin. British animal rights radicals claim to have contaminated dozens of vials of contact lense solution in France and antiseptic cream in Britain to protest against animal testing, Paris prosecutors said Friday.(AFP/DDP/File/Alex Schmidt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070829/sc_nm/fossil_orchid_dc nm/20070829/fossil_orchid_dc Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:41:54 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070829/sc_nm/fossil_orchid_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070830/2007_08_30t112528_450x345_us_fossil_orchid.jpg?x=130&y=99&sig=LVBpgHXyTcm0bKZVqtbXNw--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="An ancient bee carrying the pollen from the first orchid fossil known to science is seen in this handout photo from 2007. Fossilized orchid pollen on the back of a bee preserved in amber has offered the first evidence that these delicate flowers existed around the time of the dinosaurs, U.S. researchers said on August 29, 2007. (Santiago Ramirez/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Fossilized orchid pollen on the back of a bee preserved in amber has offered the first evidence that these delicate flowers existed around the time of the dinosaurs, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070829/sc_nm/fossil_orchid_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070830/2007_08_30t112528_450x345_us_fossil_orchid.jpg?x=130&y=99&sig=LVBpgHXyTcm0bKZVqtbXNw--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="photo" title="An ancient bee carrying the pollen from the first orchid fossil known to science is seen in this handout photo from 2007. Fossilized orchid pollen on the back of a bee preserved in amber has offered the first evidence that these delicate flowers existed around the time of the dinosaurs, U.S. researchers said on August 29, 2007. (Santiago Ramirez/Handout/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/ts_alt_afp/commoditiesenergyoil afp/20070831/commoditiesenergyoil Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:54:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/ts_alt_afp/commoditiesenergyoil"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.pwm29.310807195246.photo00.photo.default-378x263.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=U_UPm1bxdNQ59uiPoXQfeQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="A woman pumps gas at a gasoline station. World oil prices climbed Friday as a storm threatened Gulf of Mexico energy installations ahead of a long holiday weekend in the United States, while US stockpiles remained tight.(AFP/File/Rodrigo Arangua)" border="0" /></a>AFP - World oil prices climbed Friday as a storm threatened Gulf of Mexico energy installations ahead of a long holiday weekend in the United States, while US stockpiles remained tight.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/ts_alt_afp/commoditiesenergyoil"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.pwm29.310807195246.photo00.photo.default-378x263.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=U_UPm1bxdNQ59uiPoXQfeQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="A woman pumps gas at a gasoline station. World oil prices climbed Friday as a storm threatened Gulf of Mexico energy installations ahead of a long holiday weekend in the United States, while US stockpiles remained tight.(AFP/File/Rodrigo Arangua)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070826/sc_nm/genes_wine_dc nm/20070826/genes_wine_dc Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:03:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070826/sc_nm/genes_wine_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070826/2007_08_26t135925_450x300_us_genes_wine.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=1bjVUxhhhspYFeQwPA1QFQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Wine grapes have extra copies of genes that confer flavor and aroma, as well as extra DNA coding for a health-giving compound, researchers reported on Sunday. (files/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Wine grapes have extra copies of genes that confer flavor and aroma, as well as extra DNA coding for a health-giving compound, researchers reported on Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070826/sc_nm/genes_wine_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070826/2007_08_26t135925_450x300_us_genes_wine.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=1bjVUxhhhspYFeQwPA1QFQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Wine grapes have extra copies of genes that confer flavor and aroma, as well as extra DNA coding for a health-giving compound, researchers reported on Sunday. (files/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)