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Wed, February 08, 2012

Romanian man charged with hacking NASA computers

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Romanian man accused of hacking into NASA computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles under the online moniker ...

Wed, February 08, 2012

Biologist Norton Zinder dies at age 83

By Jonathan Allen

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Norton Zinder, a biologist whose research into the genetic material of viruses and bacteria led to a greater ...

Wed, February 08, 2012

Scientists melt mystery over icecaps and sea levels

By David Fogarty

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. scientists using satellite data have established a more accurate figure of the amount of annual sea level ...

Tue, February 07, 2012

NASA calls for new taxis to fly to Space Station

By Irene Klotz

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA is looking for at least two U.S. firms to design and build space taxis to ...

Mon, February 06, 2012

Neuroscience the new face of warfare: experts

By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) - Directed energy weapons that use wave beams to cause pain, and electrical brain stimulation that boosts a soldier's ...

Fri, February 03, 2012

Malaria kills twice as many as thought: study

By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) - Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people worldwide a year, nearly twice as many as previously thought, according ...

Thu, February 02, 2012

NASA confident in Russia despite space accidents

By Irene Klotz

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Despite a spate of Russian space accidents last year, NASA remains confident in its partner's ability ...

Thu, February 02, 2012

Siblings' brain scans may hold key to addictions

By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) - Drug addicts and their non-addicted siblings share certain features in the brain, suggesting a susceptibility to addiction is inherited ...

Thu, February 02, 2012

OHB confirms won Galileo satellite contract from EU

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's OHB AG confirmed it won a 250 million euro ($330 million) contract to build eight satellites for the European Union ...

Tue, January 31, 2012

Russia blames Mars probe failure on space radiation

By Alissa de Carbonnel

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia blamed radiation on Tuesday for a computer glitch that doomed its Mars moon mission, but space industry ...

SEVERE WEATHER ALERT: Flood Advisory  More Details Hide Details

mic077-100502- /o.con.kgrr.fl.y.0004.000000t0000z-120211t1800z/ /vckm4.n.sm.000000t0000z.000000t0000z.000000t0000z.oo/ 1002 pm est wed feb 8 2012 the flood advisory continues for the portage river near vicksburg * until saturday afternoon. * at 07 am tuesday the stage was 4.6 feet. * bankfull stage is 4.5 feet. * flood stage is 5.0 feet. * forecast...the river will continue to fall. * impact...at 4.5 feet...river is bankfull $$