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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Raleigh Times.com http://www.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/10/id/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:51:45 -0500 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:51:45 -0500 30 An Austrian skydiver will try to break the sound barrier during a free fall from a balloon on the edge of space later this year, The Telegraph reported Sunday. http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203251723/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:50:05 -0500 IANS http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203251723/cs/1/ Over 6,000 individuals have applied for joining NASA's Astronaut Corps, twice as many as the US space agency usually receives, NASA said Sunday. http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203251219/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:00:03 -0500 IANS http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203251219/cs/1/ Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G. Madhavan Nair on Sunday said the ISRO committee's report on the Antrix-Devas deal was one-sided and had not brought out facts accurately. http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203244616/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:20:11 -0500 ANI http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203244616/cs/1/ Russian scientists are looking forward to have a man on the moon by 2020, as it launches a new campaign to select a new team of cosmonauts to train for the special task, according to reports. http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203244607/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:50:22 -0500 ANI http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203244607/cs/1/ -; A genetic variant that increases the risk of a common type of stroke has been identified by scientists in a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and published online ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203262506/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:42:49 -0500 Science Daily http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203262506/ A house explosion on Sunday killed the father and two boys involved a bitter custody dispute near Tacoma, Washington, authorities said, two years after the ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203262505/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:22:13 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203262505/ The Boeing Co., long noted as a producer of strategic weapons, now manufactures a variety of commercial and military products. In keeping with rapidly changing technology, Boeing is in the Space age ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203260317/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:42:50 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203260317/ -; University of British Columbia researchers have discovered the molecular pathway that enables receptors inside immune cells to find, and flag, fragments of pathogens trying to invade a ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261364/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:04:48 -0500 Science Daily http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261364/ TUNIS, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The United States' space agency, NASA, will help Tunisia better manage its water resources, the official Tunisian press agency TAP reported on Monday. A project ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261365/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:48:24 -0500 SINA http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261365/ The first commercial cargo run to the International Space Station is off until spring. SpaceX planned to launch its unmanned supply ship from Cape Canaveral on Feb. 7. But the company said more ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261366/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:48:06 -0500 SINA http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261366/ From Darwinian evolution to the idea that personality is largely shaped by chance, the favorite theories of the world's most eminent thinkers are as eclectic as science itself. Every January, ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261367/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:47:43 -0500 SINA http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261367/ In this Nov. 2, 2011 file photo distributed by Russian Roscosmos space agency technicians work on the Phobos-Ground probe at Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The spacecraft is expected to fall to Earth around ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261368/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:47:38 -0500 SINA http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261368/ Sometimes science delves into taboo subjects -- and turns up interesting results. This year was no exception, with researchers delving into such blush-worthy topics as premature orgasms, sex toys ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261369/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:46:52 -0500 SINA http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261369/ Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks before the start of an interview with Reuters in his office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa February 3, 2012. REUTERS/Chris Wattie OTTAWA - Several ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261362/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:45:47 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261362/ CALGARY -- Tragedy took over a day of outdoor fun at Castle Mountain Saturday afternoon, as a young woman may have watched her husband-to-be snowboard to his death. A Calgary man, 30, was tackling ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261363/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:45:45 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203261363/ Bjrn Olsen of Uppsala University in Sweden and colleagues took seawater samples between 10 and 300 metres away from Chile's Antarctic research stations, Bernardo O'Higgins, Arturo Prat and ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203260040/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:20:37 -0500 New Scientist http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203260040/ U.S. researchers have developed a self-guided bullet. The 10 cm, dart-like bullet can hit laser-designated targets more than 1.6 km away. Sandia National Laboratories/HANDOUT U.S. researchers have ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203260039/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:03:01 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203260039/ New Delhi, Feb. 5: The four former space scientists punished for their role in a scrapped satellite deal had breached standard procedures, overlooked national interest and misled the Union cabinet ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203257931/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:39:16 -0500 The Telegraph http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203257931/ Play video ­NDP leadership candidates squared off in Sudbury, Ont., on Sunday in a riding association debate as the race to replace the late Jack Layton enters its last leg. New Democrats are ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203258534/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:23:45 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203258534/ Ontario locomotive plant shuts down LONDON, Ont. -- The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union is prepared to occupy the Electro-Motive plant in London if owner Caterpillar Inc. doesn't bargain a ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203257234/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:48:28 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203257234/ Jack Layton. (File Photo) OTTAWA - A byelection will be held in Jack Layton's former riding on March 12, according to the Prime Minister's Office. The riding of Toronto-Danforth, which ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203257235/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:48:26 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203257235/ Clint Eastwood might sound like an unlikely candidate to help investigate the evolution of the brain, but he has lent a helping hand to researchers doing just that. It turns out that brain regions ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203256271/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:33:08 -0500 New Scientist http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203256271/ Quebec Premier Jean Charest. (JOEL LEMAY/QMI Agency) MONTREAL - Quebec will turn 20% of its vast northern territory into internationally recognized protected areas, a plan Premier Jean Charest said ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203256270/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:14:19 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203256270/ Monkeys are our closest living relatives, whose brains have long served as an indispensable model for understanding how our own brain works. But we're separated from each other by 25 million ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203255174/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:41:58 -0500 The Guardian http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203255174/ This handsome African mystery bird is endemic to Ethiopia and Eritrea. It also is placed into several taxonomic families, depending upon which authority you are referring to. Can you identify this ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203255175/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:41:53 -0500 The Guardian http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203255175/ http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="nzherald" ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203254689/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:28:38 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203254689/ Florida's ecologists can be forgiven one pet hate: Burmese pythons discarded by their owners have eaten many Everglades mammals practically to ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203255007/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:57:23 -0500 New Scientist http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203255007/ It's time to declare a ceasefire in the fight to find out whether the constants of nature vary. What was supposed to be a new superweapon in the battle has turned into something of a damp ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203255172/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:57:20 -0500 New Scientist http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203255172/ Everyone wants to be happy. And yet most people aren't even sure what happiness is -- much less how to get it. Unraveling that mystery is the work of smile science, a field that relies on ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203253763/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:42:50 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203253763/ A demonstrator stands in front of a soviet flag during a protest demanding fair elections in the southern Russian city of Stavropol Feb. 4, 2012. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko MOSCOW - Vladimir ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203253956/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:03:29 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203253956/ U.S. soldiers and Afghan security forces secure an area near a car bomb blast attack in the city of Kandahar Feb. 5, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmad Nadeem KABUL - A car bomb in the south Afghan city of ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203253955/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:03:27 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203253955/ Arab League suspends Syria mission BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS - Western and Arab countries responded with outrage on Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203253957/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:03:25 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203253957/ MOSCOW - A fire broke out on Sunday at a Moscow nuclear research centre that houses a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor, an emergency official said, and Russia’s nuclear agency said ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203253958/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:03:24 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203253958/ Play video TORONTO -- The City of Toronto has hammered out a deal with CUPE Local 416. Talks went down to the wire and then into overtime overnight but Sunday morning, a tentative deal was reached ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203253959/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:03:22 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203253959/ slide_info = [{"id":{"vote_img_src":"http://i.space.com/images/i/12599/i02/mars500-mock-mars-marswalk.JPG","sequence":1,"title":"Mars in ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203252809/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:03:04 -0500 Space.com http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203252809/ A suitable climate and the easy availability of food make the Hokersar wetland reserve in Indian-administered Kashmir a favourite destination for nearly a million migratory birds every winter. This ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203252189/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:53:31 -0500 BBC http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203252189/ MOSCOW, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The crash of Russia's Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was caused by space radiation and engine failure, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203252810/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:24:43 -0500 SINA http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203252810/ contest aims to advance scientific research--while demystifying it for the general public--through visualizations. The National Science Foundation and the journal ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203251102/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:33:13 -0500 CNet http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203251102/ Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes books about mosses, scientific art and stream ecology that have been newly published in North America and the ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203250113/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:03:16 -0500 The Guardian http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203250113/ To build their battery they sandwich a solid polyethylene oxide electrolyte between a lithium iron phosphate cathode and lithium titanate anode. All of these are thermoplastic materials, which can ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203250112/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:15:37 -0500 New Scientist http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203250112/ More than 100 Conservative MPs have written to David Cameron calling on him to slash subsidies for onshore wind turbines. The MPs also want planning rules changed to make it easier for local people ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203248326/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:50:10 -0500 BBC http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203248326/ Canterbury senior Nevil Parikh checks the alignment of the tower he and teammate Ryan Byer created for the Science Olympiad hosted by IPFW on Saturday. Teams from nine area schools competed in more ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203246984/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:32:34 -0500 Journal Gazette http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203246984/ New trade and investment agreements between Qatar and Nepal will allow investors to explore the "abundant potential for promoting bilateral trade, tourism and foreign direct investment," ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203246218/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:43:23 -0500 Mena Report http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203246218/ IT is the ultimate parachute jump: from the edge of space, Felix Baumgartner will leap from a balloon and plummet 120,000ft.After 35 seconds he will break the sound barrier, and finally, at 5,000ft, ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203245761/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:25:51 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203245761/ Joan McLaren (above) says a Winnipeg funeral home picked up the body of her deceased son Adam Kowalchuk (inset) without the ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203245758/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:37:41 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203245758/ U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado February 4, 2012. (REUTERS/Brian ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203245759/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:37:33 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203245759/ Imam Syed Soharwardy (closest to camera), from Calgary, was surrounded by a dozen other Islamic Supreme Council of Canada members at the Jamia Riyadhul Jannah mosque Saturday as he delivered the ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203242923/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:56:50 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203242923/ Calgary officials have decried a week-long education campaign in central Alberta that preaches harm reduction, rather than abstinence, when it comes to ecstasy. ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203242924/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:56:48 -0500 CNews http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203242924/ Artemisinin is the most effective malaria treatment yet discovered. Peter Seeberger has found a way to to make it from the waste products of its current ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203241153/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:09:58 -0500 The Guardian http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203241153/ It is not often, in liberal north London, that you come face to face with a heretic, but Rupert Sheldrake has worn that mantle, pretty cheerfully, for 30 years now. Sitting in his book-lined study, ... http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203240188/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:09:58 -0500 The Guardian http://story.raleightimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203240188/