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285 articles from FOXNews

• THURSDAY 27. SEPTEMBER, 2007
• 11:25 Woolly Mammoth Hair Yields 'Fantastic' DNA

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  Researchers get tons of DNA from preserved mammoth hair, which protects genetic material much better than does bone.  

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• 11:08 Nations Skeptical About U.S. Climate Talks

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  A day before President Bush's climate talks, China and other developing nations said Wednesday the need to provide food, shelter and clothes for their citizens must come ahead of global warming concerns.  

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• WEDNESDAY 26. SEPTEMBER, 2007
• 19:31 NASA Counting Down to Asteroid-Probe Launch

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  Dawn to lift off Thursday morning on mission to asteroid belt.  

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• 18:33 Orbital 'Fishing' Experiment Runs Out of String

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  'Space mail' project meant to literally drop things from orbit, but first try goes awry as package detaches before it's fully in gravity's pull.  

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• 18:10 Eleven New Species Found in Vietnam

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  Orchids, butterflies and a new kind of snake discovered in central Vietnam.  

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• 15:49 Arctic Sea Ice Shrinking, Thinning Even in Winter

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  First studies to shows polar ice cap getting smaller, skimpier even in winter months; previous evidence dealt only with summers.  

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• 11:32 Birds May Be Able to 'See' Earth's Magnetic Field

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  Special cells in birds' eyes affected by magnetic fields, and vision centers of brain light up when navigating, research finds.  

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• 11:20 'Meteorite' Crash Breeds Mass Hysteria

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  Only thing spreading among fearful Peruvian villagers after purported meteorite impact may have been fear itself.  

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• TUESDAY 25. SEPTEMBER, 2007
• 16:49 Germs Taken to Space Come Back Deadlier

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  Sci-fi fear becomes reality as salmonella bacteria sent up aboard space shuttle come back much deadlier to mice.  

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• 15:32 Borneo Orangutan Fights Tourist Over Backpack

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  An orangutan at a wildlife sanctuary fought with a French tourist for her backpack, leaving her bruised and scratched, an official said Tuesday.  

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• 10:48 Humans Hard-Wired to Notice Animals, Not Machines

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  Tests show people perceive animals, humans much more quickly than machines or inanimate objects.  

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• 10:46 People 'See' Common Letters in Brighter Colors

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  Vowels gets nice bright colors in minds of synaesthetes; seldom-used consonants are darker.  

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• 10:34 Hubble Telescope to Star in Upcoming IMAX 3D Movie

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  Last shuttle servicing mission in about a year will carry 3D camera to film telescope in action.  

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• 09:31 Quarry Used to Build Second Temple Found

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  Israeli archaeologists find quarry they think could only have been used to mine limestone for Second Temple.  

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• 09:10 Submerged Cannon May Be Clue to Lost Colony

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  English cannon found off Virginia coast may date from 1580s, about time Roanoke colony vanished.  

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• 08:51 Farming Runoff Behind Epidemic of Deformed Frogs

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  Nitrogen, phosphorus from fertilizer indirectly boosts numbers of parasites that cause amphibian birth defects.  

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• MONDAY 24. SEPTEMBER, 2007
• 19:16 U.N., Schwarzenegger: Act Now on Global Warming

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  California governor one of many speakers at U.N. conference saying time is now to do something about climate change.  

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• 09:54 Study: Deep Voices Equal More Babies

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  A new study finds that men with lower-pitched voices have more children than higher-pitched males  

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• 09:04 To Get Sex, Monkeys Rub Selves With Urine

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  Mystery possibly solved of why capuchins wash own hands and feet in urine -- it's to win over the ladies.  

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• SUNDAY 23. SEPTEMBER, 2007
• 11:07 California Officials to Poison Lake to Kill Fish Predators

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  California wildlife officials will risk the ire of many in a fisihing community with plans to pour large poison into the Sierra reservoir to kill a species of predatory fish.  

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• SATURDAY 22. SEPTEMBER, 2007
• 15:55 Study: Biofuels May Emit More Greenhouse Gas Than Oil

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  Corn-derived renewable energy sources create more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels, according to a study from an international team of scientists.  

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• 11:19 Rising Seas Predicted to Overtake U.S. Coasts Within a Centu

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  Rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are projecting.  

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• FRIDAY 21. SEPTEMBER, 2007
• 19:08 Peruvian Meteorite Still Puzzling Scientists

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  It was definitely meteorite, experts say, but not of any kind they've seen before.  

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• 12:08 NASA Revamps Moonbase Strategy

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  NASA now plans to land large habitats via unmanned missions so astronauts on later flights can get right to work.  

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• 11:57 Hope for Water on Mars Dims with Sharp New Images

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  New images obtained by a sharp-eyed Martian satellite reveal that some Red Planet features once thought to have been carved by flowing water were in fact created by other processes.  

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