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ESA spacecraft completes flyby of Steins asteroid (AP)

A Feb. 25, 2007 file photo shows mission specialists at the ESA European Space Operation Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, southwestern Germany, operating the Rosetta probe during it's fly-by of planet Mars. European Space Agency ESA scientists are preparing for the first fly-by of an asteroid by their deep-space explorer, Rosetta, on a mission to solve the mystery of the birth of the solar system. Rosetta is set to rendezvous with the Steins asteroid, also known as Asteroid 2867, just before 1900 GMT on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 at a distance of just less than 500 miles (800 kilometers). (AP Photo/Daniel Roland, File)AP - The Rosetta deep space probe successfully passed close to an asteroid 250 million miles from Earth, the European Space Agency said Friday night.


Oldest gorilla in captivity dies in Dallas at 55 (AP)

Jenny, a Western Lowland Gorilla and the world's oldest captive gorilla, celebrates her 55th birthday at the Dallas Zoo in a Thursday, May 8, 2008 file photo. Jenny has died at her home in the Dallas Zoo, a spokesman said Friday, Sept. 5, 2008.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)AP - The oldest gorilla in captivity, a 55-year-old female named Jenny, has died at the Dallas Zoo — her home for more than half a century, a spokesman said Friday.


Feds warn climate change could harm giant sequoias (AP)
AP - Federal researchers are warning that warming temperatures could soon cause California's giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly unless forest managers plan with an eye toward climate change and the impact of a longer, harsher wildfire season.

Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US (AP)

The Olympic cauldron is lit at the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, amid haze and smog after rainfall in Beijing, August 10, 2008. Rain fell on Beijing on Sunday, cooling oven-like temperatures for the second day of the Olympic Games and raising hopes that the thick haze clogging the Chinese capital might finally clear. REUTERS/Joe Chan (CHINA)AP - Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.


Urban Surprise: More Bicyclists Means Fewer Accidents (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - In a study that at first glance seems counterintuitive, researchers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, reviewed safety studies from 17 countries and 68 cities in California and found that the more people bike in a community, the less they collide with motorists.

Hurricane Ike targets Gulf, Hanna's toll rises (Reuters)

Hurricane Ike is visible east-northeast of Grand Turk Island in a satellite image taken September 5, 2008. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Fierce Hurricane Ike weakened as it charged across the Atlantic on Friday and took aim at south Florida and the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico, while Tropical Storm Hanna buffeted the Carolinas after killing at least 529 people in Haiti.


European freighter detaches from space station (AFP)

Graphic illustration of the ATV spacecraft which is positioning itself for a fiery, suicide descent into Earth's atmosphere(AFP)AFP - A European robot freighter decoupled from the International Space Station (ISS), positioning itself for a fiery, suicide descent into Earth's atmosphere.


Environmentalists can't corral Palin (AP)

In this March 29, 2008 file photo provided by Gordon Haber, a wolf with a trapper's snare deeply embedded in its neck as it walks along a railroad track in Denali National Park, Alaska.  After the snare was removed and the wound treated, the wolf rejoined a smaller wolf and appears to be recovering. (AP Photo/Gordan Haber)AP - At the National Governors Association conference where she first met John McCain, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had other business: making her case to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne against classifying the polar bear as a threatened species.


Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating (AFP)

Undated handout photo shows the 3D reconstruction of the skull of Toumai. A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp.(AFP/MPFT/File)AFP - A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp.


Alaskans to receive state payouts topping $3,200 (AP)
AP - It's the season for Alaskans to be rewarded just for living here and this year's take is extra sweet: $3,269, a record share of the state's oil wealth combined with a special cash payout to help with stratospheric energy prices.

Scientists ID 2 New Genes for Bowel Disease in Kids (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Variations of two new genes appear to increase the risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease in childhood, researchers say.

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