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News: Science News</a></th></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110612/ap_on_sc/eu_med_contaminated_vegetables_genetics" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Scientists probe DNA of E. coli for outbreak clues <br /> (AP)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; "><p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110612/ap_on_sc/eu_med_contaminated_vegetables_genetics"><img class="rsspal" style="float:left; margin:5px" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110611/capt.6fd617f667794010be57ff62f9d38609-3aa93e5f090f4174b460919e7e8073db-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=I7ArEikLuOtxh1X5F.26iw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - In this June 3, 2011 file photo tomatoes and cucumbers are displayed for sale at a market in Berlin . Sign reads : Cumbers Kilogramm 99 Cents, ($1.44). Germany's health minister says he's hopeful that the worst of an E. coli outbreak that blamed on sprouts is over but he is warning that the number of deaths, now at 33, may still increase, Bahr was quoted Saturday June 11, 2011 as telling the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. In Hamburg, one of the areas worst hit by the outbreak, customers at the city's Wandsbek market were back to buying cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce on Saturday after the government liftet a warming for those vegetables Friday. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn,File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Scientists are quickly combing the DNA of the killer bacteria behind the world's worst E. coli outbreak to find clues about how to treat patients and prevent future epidemics.</p><br clear="all"/></td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110611/ap_on_sc/us_cancer_chemicals" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Government lists formaldehyde as cancer causer <br /> (AP)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; ">AP - The strong-smelling chemical formaldehyde causes cancer, while styrene, a second industrial chemical that's used worldwide in the manufacture of fiberglass and food containers, may cause cancer, the National Institutes of Health says.</td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110611/ap_on_sc/us_sci_total_lunar_eclipse" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Total lunar eclipse next week, not visible in US <br /> (AP)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; "><p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110611/ap_on_sc/us_sci_total_lunar_eclipse"><img class="rsspal" style="float:left; margin:5px" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110611/capt.e299c8285fb0434bb62366e95d4ad304-e299c8285fb0434bb62366e95d4ad304-0.jpg?x=130&y=30&q=85&sig=35BONGbWY58dHrhM7PCcmg--" align="left" height="30" width="130" alt="FILE In this March 4,2007 file photo showing a full moon is eclipsed by the earth's shadow in this seven pictures combination, from left, seen in Nairobi, Kenya. Mark your calendars. This year's first total eclipse of the moon will last unusually long, a rare celestial treat for a wide swath of the globe. Except if you're in the United States and Canada. But if you're in eastern Africa, central Asia, Middle East and western Australia, you should be able to view the entire lunar spectacle if the weather cooperates. Total lunar elipse will occur on June 15. (AP Photo/Akmal Rajput,File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The year's first total eclipse of the moon will last an unusually long time, a rare celestial treat for a wide swath of the globe.</p><br clear="all"/></td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110611/ap_on_sc/eu_contaminated_vegetables_exhausted_doctors" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Hospitals reach limits in E.coli crisis <br /> (AP)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; "><p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110611/ap_on_sc/eu_contaminated_vegetables_exhausted_doctors"><img class="rsspal" style="float:left; margin:5px" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110611/capt.3b5c424d98be4a29b4a585efb86f7b47-3b5c424d98be4a29b4a585efb86f7b47-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=5t.hBgsFefSRB7RHX2wUmA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - In this June 6, 2011 file photo, Professor Friedrich Hagenmueller, the medical director of the Asklepios Hospital Hamburg-Altona gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in Hamburg, Germany. Doctors have been making their rounds 16 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, since the outbreak of a deadly bacterial epidemic. For doctors, nurses and hospital staff around Germany, taking a day off has not been an option. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Blood specialist Dr. Cay-Uwe von Seydewitz has been making his rounds 16 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, since the outbreak of a deadly bacterial epidemic.</p><br clear="all"/></td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110611/sc_livescience/isallthewildweatherconnected" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Is All the Wild Weather Connected? <br /> (LiveScience.com)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; ">LiveScience.com - In the winter, there was the record snowfall across the Northeast. Record rainfall and floods in Ohio Valley followed in April and May. The Southwest has been plagued by drought for months, while tornadoes have devastated the Midwest and South. Record heat is scorching most of the country this week — just days after snow fell in Hawaii. Meteorologists predict a harrowing hurricane season.</td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110612/wl_nm/us_china_lead" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">China lead pollution outbreak poisons 103 children <br /> (Reuters)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; ">Reuters - Lead pollution from workshops in eastern China seriously poisoned 103 children and has affected hundreds of other residents in the country's latest case of unfettered industrial toxins, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.</td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110611/ap_on_sc/us_solar_project_tortoise" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Construction to resume on parts of solar project <br /> (AP)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; "><p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110611/ap_on_sc/us_solar_project_tortoise"><img class="rsspal" style="float:left; margin:5px" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110610/capt.94d9b51c91894502aa14e0b7d765a800-94d9b51c91894502aa14e0b7d765a800-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=gRzsOCCYQFnlOYSXGWACGQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - This Sept. 3, 2008 file photo shows an endangered desert tortoise, sitting in the middle of a road at the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the eastern Mojave Desert near Ivanpah, Calif. A federal agency said Friday June 10, 2011 that construction can resume on a massive Southern California solar energy project after wildlife officials determined it will not jeopardize the threatened desert tortoise. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Construction can resume on a massive Southern California solar energy project after wildlife officials determined it will not jeopardize the threatened desert tortoise, federal officials said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/></td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110612/sc_space/firstphotosofwoundedrepgiffordsastronautswifereleased" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">First Photos of Wounded Rep. Giffords, Astronaut's Wife, Released <br /> (SPACE.com)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; ">SPACE.com - The first photos of Gabrielle Giffords, wife of astronaut Mark Kelly, have been released since the Congresswoman was critically wounded in a January shooting in Arizona.</td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110610/ts_afp/scienceargentinabiotech" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Argentine lab clones cow to produce human-like milk <br /> (AFP)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; "><p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110610/ts_afp/scienceargentinabiotech"><img class="rsspal" style="float:left; margin:5px" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110609/capt.photo_1307667910273-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=VSxav6k39peT_VJhXxovvg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="An illustration file photo of a Jersey cow. An Argentine laboratory announced that it had created the world's first transgenic cow, using human genes that will allow the animal to produce the equivalent of mothers' milk.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Paul Morris)" border="0" /></a>AFP - An Argentine laboratory announced that it had created the world's first transgenic cow, using human genes that will allow the animal to produce the equivalent of mothers' milk.</p><br clear="all"/></td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110607/ap_on_re_us/us_missouri_river_flooding_wildlife" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Missouri River flood may aid protected birds, fish <br /> (AP)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; "><p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110607/ap_on_re_us/us_missouri_river_flooding_wildlife"><img class="rsspal" style="float:left; margin:5px" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110606/capt.230684ec6a1c435da6b3297a75589cd4-230684ec6a1c435da6b3297a75589cd4-0.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=jSBVsmLsk61w8Xhs7IsWjg--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="FILE - In this June 2006 file photo, a piping plover runs across the beach in Phippsburg, Maine. The swollen Missouri River is causing headaches for cities and homeowners but the river's swift run is likely to be a boon for the piping plover, an endangered species, that will likely find more room to nest on the river's sandbars once it recedes. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The swollen Missouri River that promises to be a prolonged headache for small towns and farmers along its path is likely to be a boon for several protected and endangered species living in or near its basin, biologists say.</p><br clear="all"/></td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110612/ap_on_re_eu/sea_shepherd_tuna" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Activists searching for tuna boats with helicopter <br /> (AP)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; "><p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110612/ap_on_re_eu/sea_shepherd_tuna"><img class="rsspal" style="float:left; margin:5px" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110611/capt.a7e3f8118b8449cea7422747f4f84c71-a7e3f8118b8449cea7422747f4f84c71-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=YTpFGYyeQAO9mNLsPgvWgA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo provided by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a French military jet encircles the Steve Irwin, a Sea Shepherd Conservation Society boat, as it attempts to disrupt illegal tuna fishing in the Mediterranean on Saturday, June 11, 2011. Tuna fishermen confronted environmentalists on the Mediterranean early Saturday, as activists attempted to disrupt illegal tuna fishing under the no-fly zone north of Libya. The fishermen attacked the Steve Irwin, owned by the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, by hurling heavy metal chain links aboard. They also attempted to lay a rope in front of the activists' boat, hoping to disable it. Those aboard the Sea Shepherd responded with water from fire hoses and stink bombs. Several hundred feet above the fray circled a French fighter jet, summoned by the fishermen, who claimed, falsely, that activist divers were trying to cut their net. (AP Photo/Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Michelle McCarron)" border="0" /></a>AP - The helicopter lifted gingerly off the aft deck of the ship, banked sharply, then sped off a few hundred feet above the Mediterranean whitecaps in search of boats fishing illegally for bluefin tuna — potential targets for activists determined to do what they can to preserve the species.</p><br clear="all"/></td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_weatherpage_weather" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">The nation's weather <br /> (AP)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; ">AP - Storms will develop across the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes on Friday, as a front moves in from the Plains.</td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110612/sc_space/cluestomoonsvolatilepastrevealedbynewlasermap" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Clues to Moon's Volatile Past Revealed by New Laser Map <br /> (SPACE.com)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; ">SPACE.com - The first comprehensive set of maps of the slopes and craters on the lunar surface is revealing clues about the violent history of the moon.</td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110608/hl_nm/us_scientists_heart" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Scientists show heart can repair itself, with help <br /> (Reuters)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; ">Reuters - British scientists have managed to transform a type of stem-like cell in adult mouse hearts into functioning heart muscle in research proving that the heart has dormant repair cells that can be reactivated.</td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110610/ts_nm/us_usa_spill_response" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Oil spill cleanup relies on decades-old technology <br /> (Reuters)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; ">Reuters - When the ominous black plume began gushing from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig last year, an army of workers was dispatched to protect the U.S. Gulf Coast using the latest technology -- vinyl-covered booms and dispersant sprays.</td></tr> <tr><td style="background-color: #f1eded; color: #000000; "><b><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110611/ts_nm/us_japan_nuclear_protest" style="color: #000000;" target="_blank">Japan anti-nuclear protesters rally after quake <br /> (Reuters)<br /> </a></b></td></tr> <tr><td class="rsspal" style="width:100%; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; "><p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110611/ts_nm/us_japan_nuclear_protest"><img class="rsspal" style="float:left; margin:5px" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20110611/i/r555204851.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=hdxDBQOtvbmpWCvBSU7YSQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="An anti-nuclear protester takes part in a demonstration in Tokyo June 11, 2011, on the three month anniversary of the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami which triggered a nuclear disaster. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters marched in Japan on Saturday, three months after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, urging the government to cut reliance on atomic power.</p><br clear="all"/></td></tr> </table>
