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Secret to Bad-Smelling Wine Revealed

A buttery flavor with notes of raspberries, chocolate and … wet dog?

The Roots of Creativity Found in the Brain

The ability of humans to create art, think rationally or invent new tools has long interested scientists, and a new study reveals how the brain achieves these imaginative feats.

China says aims to train astronauts from other countries

BEIJING (Reuters) - China aims to train astronauts from other countries who will conduct missions with their Chinese counterparts, state news agency Xinhua cited a senior official as saying on Monday. China will also share the technological achievements of its manned space program with other countries, especially with developing ones, Xinhua quoted Wang Zhaoyao, head of the country's manned space program office, as saying. "Cooperation should be either bilateral or multilateral, with diversified and flexible models based on peace and a win-win cooperation," he said. ...

Comet Crashes Can Spawn the Ingredients of Life

The explosive collisions of icy comets with planets and moons generated the vital building blocks of life, spreading these necessary ingredients throughout the solar system, researchers say.

Asteroid Will Buzz Earth This Week Inside the Moon's Orbit

A tiny asteroid discovered just last week is set to zip by Earth on Wednesday (Sept. 18), passing between our planet and the moon. It is small enough and distant enough that it poses no threat to people, scientists say.

Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Infections Down Significantly

MRSA, or methicillin-resistant , is a type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that is difficult to treat, and can be spread around hospitals and nursing homes by doctors, nurses and other staff.

Some Women Undergo Unnecessary Double Mastectomies

"If Angelina Jolie did it, shouldn't I do the same?" This is a question breast-cancer doctors and surgeons are increasingly encountering in their practice, in the wake of Jolie's revelation earlier this year that she chose to have both her breasts removed due to her high risk of developing breast cancer.

NASA clears Orbital Sciences for test flight to space station

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA on Monday cleared a second commercial company to launch a cargo ship to the International Space Station, with blastoff slated this week from a Virginia spaceport. If successful, Orbital Sciences Corp. would join privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX, in flying supplies to the space station, a $100 billion research complex that orbits about 250 miles above Earth. Orbital Sciences' two-stage Antares rocket, which made a successful debut flight in April, is scheduled to lift off at 10:50 a.m. ...

Biblical-Era Town Discovered Along Sea of Galilee

A town dating back more than 2,000 years has been discovered on the northwest coast of the Sea of Galilee, in Israel's Ginosar valley.

Alarming Rate of 'Extreme Binge Drinking' Seen in High Schoolers

Binge drinking is common among high school seniors, with an alarming number of students engaging in extreme binge drinking of 15 or more drinks, a new study finds.

Food Allergies Cost US Families Billions Per Year

Children's food allergies cost the United States about $25 billion a year, new research suggests.

Lifestyle Change May Reverse Ageing in Cells

Lifestyle changes may turn back the biological clock, and reverse ageing on a cellular level, new evidence shows.

How the Strange Star Delta Cephei Is a Universe Mile-Marker

Standing high in the northern part of the sky this week at around 11 p.m. local time is a spire-like figure of five stars pointing northward.

Extreme Space Weather Storms Spark Satellite Failures, Study Suggests

High-speed eruptions of charged particles from the sun may be to blame for recent failures of satellites that people rely on to watch TV and use the Internet, scientists say.

Exomoons Around Alien Planets May Be Too Small for Life

Alien moons around distant worlds may not possess magnetic fields strong enough to protect extraterrestrial life from radiation that may blast it from deep space and nearby stars, researchers say.

Gigantic Galaxy Cluster Blazes in Amazing New Hubble Photo

A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows an enormous collection of galaxies and star clusters in stunning detail.

Lifestyle Change May Reverse Aging in Cells

Lifestyle changes may turn back the biological clock, and reverse aging on a cellular level, new evidence shows.

The Sea Change in Science Education: Corporate Stakeholders Step Up.

Cygnus vs. Dragon: How 2 Private Spaceships Stack Up

An unmanned private spacecraft is set to launch from Virginia Wednesday (Sept. 18) on its maiden trip to the International Space Station.

British cosmologist Hawking backs right to assisted suicide

LONDON (Reuters) - British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has backed the right for people who are terminally ill to choose to end their lives and to receive help to do so as long as safeguards are in place. The wheelchair-bound Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease aged 21 and told he had two to three years to live. Now 71, he is one of the world's leading scientists, known especially for his work on black holes and as author of the international bestseller "A Brief History of Time". ...

Cloud Seeding Not to Blame for Colorado Flooding

Colorado's recent massive flooding, which has left hundreds of people unaccounted for, has been called an anomalous 100- or even 1,000-year event by the scientific community. Such floods have a 1 percent and 0.1 percent chance of occurring, respectively, during any given year. While those odds make them rare events, they are the result of natural larger-scale weather and climate patterns, with perhaps an assist from climate change.

Science Is Key to Earth's Future, Says Astrophysicist Martin Rees

Science has captivated people for centuries, but public understanding of science is more important now than ever, says cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees.

Evolution of a Predator: How Big Cats Became Carnivores

The biggest and perhaps most fearsome of the world's big cats, the tiger shares 95.6 percent of its DNA with humans' cute and furry companions, domestic cats.

Melt from Below Helping Shrink Antarctic Glaciers

The ice that Antarctica is losing as chunks break off the continent's many glaciers may be only the tip of the iceberg. Scientists now find much of the ice Antarctica loses is due to melting from the undersides of ice shelves.

Amazing Roll Cloud Tumbles Over DC Area

A rare tube-shaped cloud created a spectacle in northern Virginia yesterday (Sept. 16) as it crept across the sky.

What the World Dreams About: Mind-Bending App to Find Out

The bizarre tales that flow through the sleeping mind vanish, as though they never happened, soon after a person awakes. But a new app aims to keep dreams alive — helping people remember, document and share their dreams — while building a large and growing database of snooze stories from around the world and through time.

Private Launches Bring Boom to Virginia Spaceport

NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, nestled on a quaint stretch of Virginia's rural coastline, has an active autumn launch schedule this year, one sign a nearly $150 million investment by state and federal governments is starting to pay off.

Richard Garriott, 2nd-Gen Space Traveler, Auctions Historic Rocket Model

The first American to follow in his father's footsteps by flying in space is auctioning some of his memorabilia, including a rare rocket ship model based on a design by Russia's "father of space travel."

Pandemic Flu Plan Predicts 30% of US Could Fall Ill

A recently declassified U.S. government plan for how to react in the face of a pandemic flu has some scary, but realistic predictions.

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Monday, September 16, 2013

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Millionaire Space Tourists Relive Cosmic Potty Training

NEW YORK – As microgravity makes even the most mundane tasks tricky, going to the bathroom in space can be a chore. How astronauts take care of that basic human necessity while in orbit has been a point of perennial fascination for the Earth-bound public.

Wanted: Private Spaceship Builders for Virgin Galactic

MOJAVE, Calif. – Virgin Galactic looks poised to begin launching paying passengers into space by 2014, but the private spaceship company is going needs more folks with the "right stuff" to make it happen.

Recycled Fashion? Menswear Made of Recycled Water Bottles

Countless plastic water bottles end up in landfills across the country every single day. One company, Dirtball Fashion, is doing its part to lighten the environmental load by recycling these bottles into new products. But Dirtball isn't converting them into pens or plastic bags, but rather men's apparel.

Intelligent Machines to Space Colonies: 5 Sci-Fi Visions of the Future

WASHINGTON — Humanity has reached a bottleneck this century: Technical developments could cause catastrophic damage to the planet, or they could save humanity from its man-made quandary.

Viral Marriage Advice from Divorced Man: Experts Examine His Tips

When the newly divorced motivational speaker Gerald Rogers took to Facebook, posting a list of bits of marriage advice he said he wished he had known, his heartfelt advice was heard, liked and shared by thousands of people.

No Excuses: Even 1-Minute Workouts Benefit Health

Got a minute? Then walk briskly, trot up the stairs, dart after that bus — do just about anything you can to raise your heart rate at least a smidgeon, and burn an extra calorie or two.

Visit the Galapagos Islands on Google Street View

Google Maps just expanded its Street View to include the exotic Galapagos Islands, adding to the growing repertoire of remote and fascinating locales visible from any Internet user's armchair.

Tiny 3D-Printed Organs Aim for 'Body on a Chip'

Miniature human organs made by 3D printing could create a "body on a chip" that enables better drug testing. That futuristic idea has become a new bioprinting project backed by $24 million from the U.S. Department of Defense.

Can Farmers Cry Wolf and then Pocket the Cash? (Op-Ed)

Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Time is Key to Putting a Price on Climate Risk (Op-Ed)

Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Snow Leopard's Fate Hinges on Historic Talks (Op-Ed)

nited Nations Environment Program LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Germany has most of its winter emergency power reserves: regulator

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany has secured 2,022 megawatts (MW) of the 2,540 MW emergency electricity capacity it needs to get through the winter, the energy regulator said on Monday, confirming a forecast that possible shortages were being managed. Potential energy shortages will be a problem for years in German as nuclear plants in the south are being closed more quickly than grids are revamped, and the country also exports a lot of power at times of high supply, leaving certain inland regions with transmission bottlenecks potentially undersupplied. ...

Running the A/C? New Building Codes Could Slash Energy Costs (Op-Ed)

Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights

Why the U.S. Military Must Find Energy Alternatives (Op-Ed)

Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

For Voyager 1, New Discoveries Await in Interstellar Space

NASA's Voyager 1 probe won't rest on its laurels after becoming the first manmade object ever to reach interstellar space.

Harvest Full Moon Rises This Week: How to See It

This Thursday's full moon carries the title of "Harvest Moon" for those living in the Northern Hemisphere. But what gives the special moon its name?

New See-Through Snail Discovered Deep Underground

A new snail species with a beautifully translucent shell was recently discovered more than 3,000 feet (914 meters) underground in a Croatian cave.

How Dreams Form: Roots of Bizarre Imagery Revealed

Even people with a rare brain disorder that leaves their minds incapable of spontaneous thought and apathetic during the day have dreams at night, new research finds.

Whale of a Surprise: Humpbacks Winter in Antarctica

Underwater conversations between humpbacks have revealed a surprising secret: Some of the whales in the Southern Hemisphere appear to skip their northward migration and stay in frigid Antarctic waters for the winter.

Solar Plane Pioneers Team Up with Google

The company behind Solar Impulse, the first solar airplane capable of flying day and night without using any fuel, is partnering with Google to help promote its goal of circumnavigating the globe in 2015 using only solar energy.

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