Astronauts begin emergency spacewalk

	Astronauts begin emergency spacewalk Two US astronauts have begun an emergency spacewalk to fix a leak of ammonia from the International Space Station's cooling system. Live video shows Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn examining the outside of the craft to search for the escape. The crew ...
	Aldrin bats for Indian habitat on red planet MUMBAI: As India prepares to launch an unmanned mission to Mars in October-November this year; comes a prediction that this country could perhaps be among the nations which could construct a modular habitat on Mars with US leadership in the years ...
	Mars Rover Curiosity to Drill Into Bumpy 'Cumberland' Rock NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will perform its second-ever drilling operation soon, boring into a knobby section of bedrock dubbed "Cumberland," space agency officials announced Thursday (May 9). Cumberland lies just 9 feet (2.75 meters) west of the rock ...
	On World Migratory Bird Day, UN calls for greater protection of habitats 11 May 2013 – As an estimated 50 billion birds commence their annual migrations, the critical staging areas they need to complete these journeys continue to be degraded or are disappearing completely, the United Nations today warned on this year's World ...
	Scientists pinpoint how brain tracks fast-moving baseball pitches, tennis serves Scientists pinpoint how brain tracks fast-moving baseball pitches, tennis serves. The human brain is far slower than a Major League fastball or a blistering tennis serve -- but it has figured out a workaround. New research by UC Berkeley scientists solves a ...
	Cold Winter Leads Americans To Think Global Warming is a Hoax The cold winter this year has led Americans to believe that news about global warming could probably be just a hoax. According to a new study published online Thursday, the opinions of Americans on global warming seem to rise and fall with the ...
	India's lone missile test firing range faces sand erosion Since Wheeler Island is technically a "sand bar" with a size of approximately one sq Km in the Bay of Bengal and not a rock formation, water currents result in the change in sand patterns. Changing sand patterns around India's lone missile test-firing range at ...
	Do You Stink? This Robot Will Tell You If you're headed to an important meeting or big date, it's probably a good idea to make sure you don't stink. Don't burden your friends or family members with the heinous job of sniffing your parts, enlist a robot. Japanese company CrazyLabo teamed up with ...
	Global carbon dioxide in atmosphere passes milestone level For the first time in human history, the concentration of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has passed the milestone level of 400 parts per million (ppm). The last time so much greenhouse gas was in the air was several million years ago, when ...
	'Dirty' stars hint at Sun's future Scientists have studied two dead stars that give us a glimpse, they say, of what our Solar System might look like a few billion years from now. Our Sun will expand outwards when its nuclear fuel runs low and will ultimately blow off its outer layers. Some of the ...