Provides the latest RSS feeds for Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Baton Rouge Post.com http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/cat/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 09:50:28 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 09:50:28 -0400 30 One fan of Leonardo DiCaprio has paid 1.5 million dollars for a trip into space with the actor, during a charity auction at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the winning bidder will get the chance to travel into space orbit on a Virgin Galactic spaceship in a seat next to DiCaprio, Us magazine reported. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will go ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214735602/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:30:02 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214735602/scat/a9927dde6777aafc New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the real shape of the Ring Nebula. The glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, Sun-like star is like a doughnut, scientists suggested. "The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it's like a jelly doughnut, because it's filled with material in the middle," said C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214730650/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 00:40:02 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214730650/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ecuador's first satellite avoided a direct collision with the remains of a Russian rocket, but whether the device is still operating remains unclear, the head of the country's EXA space agency told EFE. The US-based Joint Space Operations Center, which had alerted EXA to the possible threat to Pegaso, informed the Ecuadorian agency Thursday that the Russian wreckage did not hit the satellite ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214730648/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 00:40:01 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214730648/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Researchers in the US have captured rare images of the creation of a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way that was formed when two young galaxies collided 11 billion years ago, a study said. "Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare - the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds," scientists ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214728960/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 21:50:01 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214728960/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Russia's new reusable spacecraft being developed by the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will be able to make up to five space flights, the rocket maker said. The spacecraft's technical design has been finalised but is yet to be officially approved, Energia deputy general designer Alexander Chernyavsky said. The new reusable craft is to replace the Soyuz carrier rocket and is expected to ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214726038/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 19:00:01 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214726038/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Emirates Post has issued a stamp to showcase the UAE's achievement in the field of science and technology, and to commemorate the "Y1A", the first multipurpose satellite by Yahsat. The satellite, a milestone for the nation, is designed to provide advanced satellite services to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Central and South West Asia. The stamp is available in a denomination of four dirhams, ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722399/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 15:30:02 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722399/scat/a9927dde6777aafc When people want to emphasise how complicated something is, they compare it to either brain surgery or rocket science. But it's unlikely that two such different disciplines are equally challenging. One must be ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214738132/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 09:01:53 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214738132/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mount Pavlof, Alaska -- Alaska's Pavlof Volcano started erupting on May 13th and the ash cloud can be seen from the International Space Station. CNN -I-reporter Chris Owens, who's a pilot, flew within about a half-mile of the volcano and captured the plume on video. The outdoor TV program producer says he was scouting a location at the time. NASA says Pavlof's ash cloud went ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214737982/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 08:58:33 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214737982/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Inventors Petr Novikov and Sasa Jokic designed it after trying to think of ways to implement 3-D printing with fibers, rather than the usual ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214738133/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 08:42:58 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214738133/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In the mid-1980s pest-control companies introduced roach-killing cocktails of food mixed with slow-acting toxins. Lured in by the food, the roaches ate the heady mix, then returned to their nests, only to die several hours later and spread the toxin when their nest-mates devoured their faeces and bodies. By 1993, however, the toxic bait was becoming ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214738134/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 08:34:56 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214738134/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Reds are "rich, vibrant and vivid, green grass looks like grass, and scenes of the Caribbean are stunning", says Seth Coe-Sullivan, founder and chief technology officer of the company behind the quantum ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214738135/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 08:34:55 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214738135/scat/a9927dde6777aafc young people in a German cohort study, and 20 Wistar rats. The study authors wanted to investigate the often-seen relationship between a child's age at first drink and subsequent alcohol abuse problems, or harm from alcohol. They state that they are interested in what neurobiological mechanisms underlie the association, so look at the relationship between puberty stage when the child (or ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214737334/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 08:08:46 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214737334/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Connecticut Sun . And like any casino worth its chips, the Sun brings in aging rockers like Megadeth, Styx, and REO Speedwagon. It's not just that you can gamble away your pennies at a resort tucked in a riverside woodland; the 34-story hotel tower juts out of the landscape like a crystal mountain. But casinos tend to want people to stay in the gambling halls, so conveniently, it also has a ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214736201/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 07:00:25 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214736201/scat/a9927dde6777aafc return was fraught with things that I found fascinating as a neurologist and space medicine researcher, such as being unable to do a sit-up or protect myself from a sudden fall.The nervous system is quite adaptable to space flight and we cannot will these gravity-related reflexes to remain when they are not needed. The light-headedness and heavy bed cover during recovery were as interesting as ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214736541/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:56:14 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214736541/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Duncan Hull The latest in a long line of government spending reviews, this one covering the period 2015-16, is looming - and many in the science community are getting worried. In the last such review, in 2010, ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214735871/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:21:27 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214735871/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Michael Georgiopoulos has been named the new dean of the College of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. Michael Georgiopoulos has been named the new dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida after an extensive national search for the position. Georgiopoulos has led the college since July 1, 2012, as interim dean ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214736060/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:19:21 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214736060/scat/a9927dde6777aafc With an apt rendition of "Gold-finger," singing legend Shirley Bassey roused celebrity-revelers to dig deep into their pockets at the 20th amfAR gala in the Cap D'Antibes Thursday, helping to raise an estimated $25 million for AIDS ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214735872/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:18:40 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214735872/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The exhibition Undercurrents and the Quest for Space aims to become an outlet for female artists to speak out about the trauma of abuse, addition and other personal difficulties. Cris Matos / for China ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214735873/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:15:24 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214735873/scat/a9927dde6777aafc OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - A colliding truck may have triggered the collapse on Thursday of part of a four-lane freeway bridge that sent vehicles and drivers tumbling into a frigid river in Washington state, officials ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214735390/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:07:03 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214735390/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Lew Crampton, president and CEO of the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, inside the new viewing tank. After a $5 million renovation, the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium is set to reveal its new look on June 7. The museum is looking to engage children and adults with hands-on, mind-on exhibits that promote science, technology, engineering and math skills to fill the widening ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214735710/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 06:02:38 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214735710/scat/a9927dde6777aafc By Megan Gannon, Space.com Three astronauts who recently spent months together aboard the International Space Station reunited on Earth on Thursday during ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214734933/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 05:10:34 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214734933/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Restaurant patios around the city are abuzz with al fresco diners eager to sip and sup under the stars. Festivals are in full swing, serving up barbecue, cotton candy and street food. Farmers markets on both sides of the state line supply shoppers with local produce for bountiful dinners on the ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214734934/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:31 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214734934/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ecuador A tiny Ecuadoran satellite that collided in space with the remains of a Soviet rocket has survived the crash, but is damaged and not transmitting.Ecuador's space agency EXA warned on Wednesday that a collision was likely between its Pegaso nanosatellite and the remains of an S14 rocket, launched by the Soviet Union in the midst of the Cold War.The agency's director Ronnie ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214733716/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:14 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214733716/scat/a9927dde6777aafc . Actinium gets its name from the Greek word for "beam" or "ray".This element is vanishingly rare in the wild -- "vanishingly rare" is a deliberately-chosen descriptor that you will be reading quite frequently in this weekly round-up now that we're well into the seventh and last period of the periodic table. Actinium is a soft, silvery-white metal that can be ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214732992/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 04:16:08 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214732992/scat/a9927dde6777aafc LONDON (Reuters) - Dramatic video footage showing the moment when police shot the two men suspected of hacking to death a soldier in London was published on a British newspaper's website on Friday. The shaky, 10-second clip shows one of the men sprinting towards a police car with a knife in his hand before he is shot and tumbles to the ground. The second man appears to aim a gun at the ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214732643/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 03:55:55 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214732643/scat/a9927dde6777aafc . Remember the young lady, Kiera Wilmot, who had been the center of a controversy when she lit off a small chemical explosion at her school? The Florida student still has not learned her fate as far as her high school goes, though she ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214731982/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 02:27:16 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214731982/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Researchers in the US have captured rare images of the creation of a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way that was formed when two young galaxies collided 11 billion years ago, a study said."Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare - the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds," ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214732041/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 02:19:40 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214732041/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The yellow-bellied marmot is poised in its diorama, backed by sweeping vistas of the high Sierra. Rustic twig chairs sit on the porch of a mock Curry Village cabin, ready for real-life rocking. A brand-new ancient redwood grove stretches to the ceiling just steps from a sea lion in full roar on a sandy shore, not far from replica Lake Merritt light poles, artfully dribbled with an epoxy-clay ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214731926/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 02:15:29 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214731926/scat/a9927dde6777aafc GREENVILLE, Calif. – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Northern California Thursday night that was widely felt across the region, but there were no reports of serious damage. The temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centered near Greenville, about 25 miles southwest of Susanville in far northeastern California, said Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214731438/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 01:24:26 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214731438/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Rob Ford ducks reporters asking about crack allegations Mayor Rob Ford fired his chief of staff Thursday after growing tired of Mark Towhey urging him to go to rehab, the Toronto Sun has learned. Towhey was walked out of the mayor’s office by City Hall security and at least one councillor said his firing was "football" related. But a source familiar with the situation told the ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214731593/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 24 May 2013 01:06:07 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214731593/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Part of a freeway bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles falling into the water below, an emergency dispatcher said. Washington State Patrol dispatcher A.J. Cooper could give no further details and said she did not know if people were in the water under the portion of Interstate 5 that collapsed over the ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214730115/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 23:44:01 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214730115/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Reuters) - Part of a freeway bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles falling into the water below, an emergency dispatcher ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214730116/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 23:34:54 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214730116/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A sports car enthusiast claimed he couldn't find his car -- a Porsche -- on a B.C. Ferry bound for the Lower Mainland so he left without it and took the ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729626/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 22:50:21 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729626/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (QMI Agency) A Federal Court judge has ruled a crime was committed in the last general election but the case is still a whodunit. Judge Richard Mosley said voters in at least six ridings across the country were victims of electoral fraud during the 2011 general election, but he stopped short of naming the perpetrators of the fraud. The Council of Canadians had backed an effort by a handful of ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729073/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 21:52:38 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729073/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ibragim Todashev is pictured in this undated booking photo courtesy of the Orange County Corrections Department. An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings early on May 22, 2013, NBC News reported. The Orlando Sentinel said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando. REUTERS/Orange County Corrections ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729105/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 21:52:37 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729105/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Hundreds of victims of sexual abuse by the Christian Brothers reached a financial settlement Thursday. The religious order agreed to pay $16.5 million to 400 claimants, including 90 from Canada, who say they were molested as children by members of the order. The Brothers ran the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, N.L., for 84 years, until it announced 1989 it would shut down following ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729068/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 21:52:37 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729068/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled on Thursday ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729466/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 21:47:27 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729466/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In two critical reports released at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Kiruna, Sweden on May 15th, the scientific expertise of the Wildlife Conservation Society helped inform an international body of senior government officials about changing conditions in the Arctic, and potential responses to those changes. The scientific reports reviewed by the ministers are products of contributions ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729467/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 21:41:50 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729467/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Duffy payout 'upsets' PM Harper, sparks ethics investigation CALI, Colombia - Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested Thursday "perhaps" he should have accepted his former chief of staff's resignation sooner over the $90,000 personal cheque Nigel Wright cut for Sen. Mike Duffy. But Harper says Wright will ultimately answer to the ethics commissioner for his actions. ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729468/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 21:25:34 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729468/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu May 23, 2013 9:18pm EDT (Adds dropped word "New" to 3rd paragraph and reference to DiCaprio's film) By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES May 24 (Reuters) - A trip to space with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio raised 1.2 million euros ($1.5 million) for charity at a glitzy fundraiser at the Cannes film festival on Thursday. At the 20th annual event organized by amfAR, the Foundation for ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729238/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 21:18:45 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214729238/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Cast members Carey Mulligan, Leonardo DiCaprio and Amitabh Bachchan pose as they arrive for the screening of the film The Great Gatsby and for the opening ceremony of the 66th Cannes Film Festival ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214728866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 20:59:26 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214728866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expect that unusually warm water and other factors will produce as many as six major hurricanes during a busy 2013 Atlantic hurricane ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214728855/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 20:52:18 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214728855/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Kiera, 16-year-old junior, was arrested after the incident, which happened outside about 15 minutes before the school day began. No one was hurt, nor did she cause any damage. The school's resource officer arrested her on two possible felony charges, possessing a weapon on campus and discharging a destructive device. Kiera was suspended for 10 days, sent to an alternative school, which she ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214728763/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 20:43:56 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214728763/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Prime Minister Stephen Harper (R) sits next to Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy during the opening ceremony of the VII Pacific Allianz Summit in Cali May 23, 2013. CALI, Colombia - Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped up trade talks here Thursday with four leaders Canada considers to be close amigos. To cap off a trade tour to South America, Harper attended the Pacific Alliance ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214728867/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 20:29:01 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214728867/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An Arizona jury tasked with determining whether convicted killer Jodi Arias should be put to death for the brutal murder of an ex-boyfriend failed to reach a unanimous verdict on Thursday, and a judge ordered a retrial in the penalty phase. Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month in the murder of Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727267/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 20:05:05 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727267/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Testing for intelligence can be a tricky proposition, with the tests themselves often being the product of cultural or intellectual biases. Researchers from the University at Rochester believe they have found a simple, context-free visual test that can determine a ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727973/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 19:59:46 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727973/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Image Caption: Specialists of the NIAH located the cave paintings in the Sierra de San Carlos, Tamaulipas. Credit: Mexican National Institute of Anthropology ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727301/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 19:59:45 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727301/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Officials collected 770 entries between April 20-21 from more than 9,000 people in 83 cities around the world for this year's International Space Apps ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727974/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 19:57:43 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727974/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ibragim Todashev is pictured in this undated booking photo courtesy of the Orange County Corrections Department. An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings early on May 22, 2013, NBC News reported. The Orlando Sentinel said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando. REUTERS/Orange County Corrections ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727018/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 19:43:41 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727018/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Opala (map) . The teacher had received the monkey from a family member who had killed the youngster's mother. The lesula monkey is one of ten newly described species from the past year that researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) hope will help raise awareness of biodiversity on Earth. On Thursday, the ASU researchers released their list of what they say are the top 10 newly discovered ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727957/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 19:41:08 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727957/scat/a9927dde6777aafc LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727142/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 19:32:56 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727142/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA released a dramatic and revealing image of an erupting Alaskan volcano Thursday taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The photograph is of the Pavlof Volcano, located in the Aleutian Arc about 625 miles southwest of Anchorage, the space agency said. The oblique perspective of the photo taken from the ISS when it was about 475 miles south-southeast of the volcano ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727783/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 19:24:31 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727783/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Senator Mike Duffy arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa May 23, 2013. Duffy resigned from the Conservative caucus last week amid an expenses scandal. REUTERS/Chris ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727975/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 19:17:38 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214727975/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); Astronauts (L to R) Kevin Ford, Tom Marshburn and Chris Hadfield take part in an online chat on the social media platform Google+, May 23, ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214726838/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 18:48:48 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214726838/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Boy Scouts of America approved a proposal on Thursday to end a ban on openly gay scouts that has been in place throughout the organization's 103-year history, the group said in a statement. The vote by more than 1,400 members of the group's National Council came amid intense lobbying by gay-rights activists and members of conservative organizations. The change does not remove the ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214726584/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 18:39:07 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214726584/scat/a9927dde6777aafc PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The parents of a 2-year-old boy mauled to death by African wild dogs at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the zoo of failing to protect visitors from dangerous ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214726107/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 18:22:06 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214726107/scat/a9927dde6777aafc announced their success in achieving the feat . It was the culmination of a quest that had frustrated the field since 2005, when a previous claim to have produced cloned human stem cells, made by a team led by Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul National University in South ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214726836/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 18:13:23 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214726836/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a new twist on the Ring Nebula, a cosmic object so iconic it's a popular illustration for astronomy books. Hubble has revealed the true shape of the nebula, the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star, the space agency reported Thursday. The nebula's apparent ring shape is a result of perspective but the Hubble images ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214726842/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 18:12:26 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214726842/scat/a9927dde6777aafc GENEVA (AP) -- International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725969/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 18:06:35 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725969/scat/a9927dde6777aafc It's a problem one would imagine is a good one to have -- so many donated items coming in to help tornado ravaged Moore and Oklahoma City they don't have any place to put it all.But actually, it's been a logistical nightmare, according to officials with the Red Cross and the Salvation Army, as well as government entities which truly appreciate the help, but don't know where to ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214724903/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 17:39:35 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214724903/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Karen Nyberg , the European Space Agency's Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin officially launch on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station on May 28, the American astronaut will bring a few key creative items with ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725493/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 17:35:22 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725493/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (click image for slideshow) NASA has announced five winners of its second International Space Apps Challenge, a competition that aims to solve challenges on Earth and in space through software, hardware, data visualization and mobile apps. During the event, 770 apps were submitted and 133 were nominated for judging. ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725488/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 17:28:31 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725488/scat/a9927dde6777aafc As part of his Nerd Curious series, in which he goes back and explores artifacts of culture he missed in his youth, my friend and the AV Club’s television editor Todd VanDerWerff took a deep dive into Ray Bradbury’s short stories and emerges with what I think is one of the best summaries of what makes Bradbury’s work distinct, the element of nostalgia and emotional irrationality ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725489/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 17:20:58 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725489/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Gilles Theberge testifies at the Charbonneau inquiry, May 23, 2013. (TVA SCREENSHOT) MONTREAL -- A car bombing and a safe bursting with cash kickbacks made for dramatic testimony at the Charbonneau commission on Thursday. Retired road-paving executive Gilles Theberge admitted to creating a cartel of firms that split contracts in the Montreal suburb of Laval in early 2000. He said bid-rigging ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214724361/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 17:17:15 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214724361/scat/a9927dde6777aafc tornado safety guide recommends going into an enclosed basement or underground shelter if a tornado is imminent. But many suburban homes built in so-called Tornado Alley don't have basements due to rocky soil conditions and high water tables, which often make building basements impossible. An interior room or closet--often recommended for those without basements--may not be effective when ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725465/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 17:14:48 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725465/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A trip to the stars -- with one of the world's biggest -- has sold at a Cannes charity auction for 1.2 million euros ($1.5 million US). The winning bidder at the AmFAR Cinema Against AIDS charity dinner held on Thursday night the Hotel du Cap won an unforgettable journey into orbit on Virgin Galactic, seated next ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214724441/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 17:08:41 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214724441/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sir Richard Branson and New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez are seen in front of WhiteKnightTwo, which carries SpaceShipTwo, at Spaceport America, northeast of Truth Or Consequences, on October 17, 2011 in New Mexico. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images) (FREDERIC J. BROWN) LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Virgin Group billionaire Sir Richard Branson may be dreaming not of a white Christmas, but a space-y one. ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725490/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 16:57:11 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725490/scat/a9927dde6777aafc OTTAWA - Union reps and CBC allies say the feds are sticking their fingers in the collective bargaining pie of Crown corporations, threatening their independence. Appearing before a House finance committee Thursday, they argued against a small section of the Conservatives' more than 100-page budget bill that would let the Treasury Board set limits on what Crown corporations could agree to ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725491/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 16:51:46 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725491/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. | Thu May 23, 2013 4:40pm EDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. May 23 (Reuters) - Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on Thursday put out a "For Lease" notice for one of its shuttle launch pads in Florida. In a notice posted on its procurement website, the U.S. space agency said it was looking for one or more companies to ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725241/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 16:40:54 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214725241/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Several telescopes have teamed up to discover a rare and massive merging of two galaxies that took place when the universe was just 3 billion years old (its current age is about 14 billion years). (Photo: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214723080/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 16:25:01 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214723080/scat/a9927dde6777aafc FutureVolc is aimed at trying to improve monitoring of Iceland’s volcanoes. FutureVolc started October 1, 2012 and is funded by the Environmental/FP7 program of the European Commission. The project says its main objectives are to establish an integrated volcano monitoring system through European collaboration, develop new methods to evaluate volcanic crises, increase scientific ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214723999/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 16:19:31 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214723999/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Google+ Hangout with his NASA colleagues, Tom Marshburn and Kevin Ford.All three astronauts are back in Houston and undergoing rehabilitation after working for months aboard the International Space Station, 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth. The video hangout, presented by NASA from 3 to 4 p.m. ET Thursday, gives the astronauts' fans an opportunity to ask questions about life in space. ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214724000/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 16:17:02 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214724000/scat/a9927dde6777aafc I'm sure everyone's seen this and that, as usual, I'm the last person to pick up on a new cultural meme. (What's this 'Gangnam Style' thing anyway?). But if not, this video is totally awesome. At least for space cadets and Bowie fans like me. It's not too shabby a cover but he made it in space. IN SPACE. If I had $40m, I'd go to the International Space ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722744/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 16:12:34 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722744/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Share/Bookmark Ecuador’s first and only satellite, Pegasus, has collided with a Russian space rocket, casting doubts over whether the portal is still in ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214723201/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 16:07:50 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214723201/scat/a9927dde6777aafc FALL RIVER (CBS) – It’s not everyday you can talk to an astronaut – especially one still in space. Some students at the Talbot Innovation Middle School got that rare chance Thursday, when they interviewed ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214723810/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 16:06:42 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214723810/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Heroic Charles Ramsey could be in line for reward CLEVELAND - The man made famous for putting down his Big Mac to help free three women held captive for about a decade in a Cleveland house will never have to buy a hamburger in his hometown again. More than two weeks after Charles Ramsey became an instant folk hero after telling his story to television reporters, Cleveland food blogger Michelle ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722688/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 16:02:12 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722688/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) Police in Utah have arrested a 15-year-old boy after his two brothers, four and 10 years old, were found stabbed to death Wednesday. The teen was in charge of watching the younger boys, while their mother and three sisters were at a dance recital, ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722687/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 16:02:12 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722687/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mark Hoon , a molecular geneticist at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Maryland, said in a statement. And because mice and people share similar biology, the scientists suspect that people also have this circuit. The discovery could also someday identify a way to block the molecule from producing itching--a potentially life-changing intervention for millions ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214723969/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 15:59:13 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214723969/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A company that services turbines, primarily those made by General Electric Co., has leased new space in the Glenville Business and Technology Park. PAL Turbine Services LLC has its headquarters in Clifton Park. That will remain. The 14-year-old business is now also taking 60,000 square feet in the Glenville park, where employees will upgrade and modernize gas and steam turbines, as well as ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722767/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 15:48:13 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722767/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Africa's greatest river is about to be tamed. The River Congo is set to succumb to a series of giant hydroelectric dams with twice the generating capacity of the world's most powerful hydro-plant, ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214723100/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 15:43:13 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214723100/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Florida girl expelled from school after her science experiment exploded will be going to space camp with the help of a former NASA manager, officials said. Kiera Wilmot, 16, was accused in April of igniting a chemical explosion at her high school, leading to her arrest and suspension from school, but authorities dropped criminal charges last week. News of the incident reached 18-year NASA ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214724001/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 15:42:17 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214724001/scat/a9927dde6777aafc has signed a new long-term lease with American Realty Advisors, which was acting on behalf of its clients, for 215,400 square feet of industrial space in Addison, Ill.Haynes Furniture, a Virginia-based retailer, is expanding into the Chicago-area market, choosing this distribution facility to service their forthcoming Lombard retail store.The leased space is located in a 265,068 square foot ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722262/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:58:52 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722262/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will make four launches next year from the Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform under the Sea Launch program, corporation president Vitaly Lopota said on Thursday. After 2014, Energia will be able to make five or more launches a year, he said, adding that "a great deal here will depend on our ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721374/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:47:09 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721374/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A man charged in an alleged plot to bomb a Via Rail passenger train says he wants to be represented by a lawyer who agrees the Qur'an should be used as a "reference" in his case. Chiheb Esseghaier appeared in a Toronto court by video link this morning. He said he is seeking a legal aid lawyer to defend him against several terrorism-related charges in what the RCMP has called the ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721736/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:45:32 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721736/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An X-47B pilot-less drone combat aircraft is pictured as it flies over the aircraft carrier, the USS George H. W. Bush, after being launched from the ship in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia, May 14, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will lay out a new U.S. policy on Thursday that limits the use of armed drones to times when Americans face an ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721094/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:45:19 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721094/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Cap-Jeunesse high school in Saint-Jerome, Que. (CLAUDE CORMIER/QMI Agency) SAINT-JEROME, Que. - A school board north of Montreal has launched an internal investigation after school staff strip-searched 28 high school students to find a cellphone during a year-end exam. The board admits that staff at Cap-Jeunesse high school in Saint-Jerome, Que., "lacked judgment" for asking 28 Grade ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721644/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:45:15 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721644/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A police vehicle is seen outside of a house in Montreal on May 23, 2013. (SYLVAIN DENIS/QMI Agency) MONTREAL - Two Montreal police officers and two other cops from a nearby suburb have been arrested on drug-trafficking charges. In addition to trafficking, Montreal constables Charles Lavallee and Amir El Alfy are accused of importing narcotics. Also charged are Maxime Marcotte and Olivier Roy, ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:45:14 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721486/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:40:27 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721486/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); Astronaut Sally Ride, the United States' first woman in space, will be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony at the White House in ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722497/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:40:26 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722497/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 1 of 18. A man with bloodied hands and knives speaks to a camera, in a still image from amateur video that shows the immediate aftermath of an attack in which a man was killed in southeast London May 22, ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721302/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:40:14 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721302/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fitch: Sub-Saharan Africa Has Gradual Upgrade Potential Fitch Ratings says in a newly-published report that targeted reforms and policy initiatives could see Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) sub-investment grade ratings gradually upgraded, despite per capita income falling well short of peers. The challenge for Africa from a rating perspective is the low level of GDP per capita - most SSA ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721391/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:35:08 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721391/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Weston-based Biogen Idec said today it has named Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas as the company’s chief scientific officer.Artavanis-Tsakonas has served as interim CSO while on sabbatical from Harvard Medical School, officials said. He will now continue in this role in a permanent capacity, and will also lead the company’s research strategy, capabilities and discovery ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722498/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:23 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722498/scat/a9927dde6777aafc May 23, 2013 1:19pm As the people of Moore, Okla., grapple to recover following the devastating tornado that hit its community earlier this week, the head of a major weather forecasting service told a congressional subcommittee Thursday that the technology doesn’t yet exist to provide warning times of an hour or more before a tornado strikes. ';We expect people to ride out the storms ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722499/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:30:30 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722499/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Flu: there's good news and bad news. On the one hand, there have been no new human cases of H7N9 bird flu in China since 8 May. But we can't celebrate yet. Virologists report today that H7N9 spreads through the air between ferrets, just like the experimental H5N1 bird flu that caused an outcry in 2012. The outcry came after the virus was ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722500/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:25:45 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722500/scat/a9927dde6777aafc It makes you scratch just thinking about it. Sunburn and insect bites add up to a typical summer holiday cocktail of sensations, but how we distinguish between heat, pain and itching has remained a mystery. Now a protein has been found that seems to play a central role in itching. The discovery could shed light on all three sensations, as well as providing new treatments for chronic skin ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721487/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:25:44 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214721487/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia.com) TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. - A newspaper deliverywoman was somehow run over three times by her own car during a botched parking job Wednesday morning. It happened in Trois-Rivieres, Que., about halfway between Montreal and Quebec City, her newspaper said on its website. The woman confused "park" and "reverse" on her gear shifter prior to exiting the car, according to ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722501/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:17:40 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722501/scat/a9927dde6777aafc David James Leblanc, 47. (Police handout) BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - A 16-year-old boy said he was promised a painting job by David James Leblanc. Instead, the 48-year-old child sex offender drove the boy to a remote Nova Scotia shack, chained him in a room and repeatedly raped him - with his partner - for 10 days. Leblanc pleaded guilty Thursday morning to most of the charges, including kidnapping, ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722502/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 14:17:39 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722502/scat/a9927dde6777aafc ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will fill the role for Expedition 36 and 27 aboard the International Space Station. He explains what his position is tasked ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720904/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:46:21 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720904/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Image Caption: The carnivorous pitcher plant Nepenthes bicalcarata (A) and the ant Camponotus schmitzi (B) team up to fight fly larvae (C) that steal the plant's prey. Credit: Scharmann M, Thornham DG, Grafe TU, Federle W (2013) A Novel Type of Nutritional Ant-Plant Interaction: Ant Partners of Carnivorous Pitcher Plants Prevent Nutrient Export by Dipteran Pitcher Infauna. PLoS ONE 8(5): ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720897/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:45:12 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720897/scat/a9927dde6777aafc . Or maybe not. According to a recently published study from researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado, Boulder, people who live with a pet dog harbor more types of bacteria in their homes than those who do not - and that includes species of bacteria that are rarely found in dog-free households. ';We wanted to know what variables influence the microbial ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720881/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:45:12 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720881/scat/a9927dde6777aafc turtle crossing a busy road - pick it up and send it in the direction it was originally going on the other side of the road, advises the advocacy group American Tortoise Rescue (ATR), which is celebrating their 13thannualWorld Turtle Day2013 today.Picking up the tortoise and turning it around will only cause the slow moving animal to try crossing the road again, according to ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719550/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:45:11 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719550/scat/a9927dde6777aafc They are images which have the capacity to make us feel insignificant and empowered in equal measure: from startling close-ups which reveal the malevolent fury of the Sun, to the serene majesty of the Earth viewed from the International Space Station. Since the advent of photography in the mid-19th century, the medium has forged a unique alliance with astronomy, not only enabling us to peer into ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720898/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:39:17 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720898/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WASHINGTON, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - US researchers have captured rare images of the creation of a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way that was formed when two young galaxies collided 11 billion years ago, a study published this week says."Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare - the equivalent of discovering a missing link ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720215/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:29:38 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720215/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Craigslist) How to make a Craigslist advert standout? One San Antonio musician decided to let his suave Rock 'n Roll credibility rub off on his Nord Lead keyboard, by posing nude with the instrument for ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719497/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:28:20 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719497/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Busan, South Korea. (Google Maps) A five-year-old South Korean girl died Wednesday night after a suicidal man jumped from the 11th floor of an apartment building and crushed ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719496/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:28:20 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719496/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Laurie Boulanger. (Submitted photo) MONTREAL - Two young girls have died following tonsillectomies performed by the same surgeon at the same hospital south of Quebec City, QMI Agency has learned. A third girl is in serious condition but it's not clear if she was treated by the surgeon at the Centre hospitalier de Beauce-Etchemins in Saint-Georges, about 100 km south of Quebec City. ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:28:18 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Lise Thibault. (STEVENS LEBLANC/QMI Agency) OTTAWA - It appears that former Quebec lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault isn't above the law after all. The Supreme Court refused Thursday to hear Thibault's petition to avoid trial for allegedly defrauding taxpayers of $700,000 through double-billing and lavish spending. Thibault, 73, said because she was the Queen's representative, ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719700/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:28:16 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719700/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An onionskin-like structure of concentric dust shells surround a central, aging star as seen in this cool space wallpaper. Twin beams of light radiate from the star and illuminate the usually invisible dust. Artificial colors show how light reflects off the particles and heads toward ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720899/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:24:10 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720899/scat/a9927dde6777aafc DALLAS | Thu May 23, 2013 1:15pm EDT DALLAS May 23 (Reuters) - A solar airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the globe landed safely on Thursday in Texas, completing the second and longest leg of an attempt to fly across the United States powered only by the sun. The spindly experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse, touched down at Dallas/Forth Worth International ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722015/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:15:27 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214722015/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Chad Toprak of the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues have developed a game called Cart-Load-o-Fun that can be installed on buses, trains or trams. "Back in the 70s we had games arcades," he says. "People would gather and a community would build up." But today people play games either at home or in a private bubble on their phones. ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720900/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:09:33 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720900/scat/a9927dde6777aafc U.S. schools should provide an hour a day of physical activity. Prince Harry of Britain races in a gym during a tour of the Harlem Children's Zone school in the Harlem region of New York. (UPI Photo/Lucas ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720888/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 13:08:35 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214720888/scat/a9927dde6777aafc When it comes to luring corporate relocations and expansions, economic incentives are more the icing than the cake. The Peach State, armed with a roughly $100 million "deal closing" fund, hands out discretionary incentives to just 7.25 percent of all prospects, Chris Cummiskey, Georgia's economic development commissioner said at a meeting Thursday. Which companies get the money, is ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719751/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 12:40:38 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719751/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Clear skies and a passing space station combined for an extraordinary view of Alaska's erupting Pavlof volcano on May 18. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped a photo of ash streaming from the fiery peak in the Aleutian Islands, about 625 miles (1,000 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage. Before Mount Pavlof started erupting on May 13, ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719275/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 12:30:27 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719275/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Chinese Long March 2F rocket launches on the Shenzhou 9 mission, China's first manned space docking flight and first flight of a female astronaut, on June 16, 2012 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214718373/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:37 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214718373/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Artefacts such as a Buddhist sculpture have been extracted from the Mes Aynak archaeology site where miners want to extract rich deposits of copper. Photograph: Jay Price/Getty ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214718507/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 12:22:30 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214718507/scat/a9927dde6777aafc LONG BEACH, Calif. - Private suborbital space planes built by two space tourism companies will likely launch some major test flights before this year is out, their builders say. The commercial spaceflight company Virgin Galactic plans to launch ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719272/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 12:07:00 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214719272/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The genomes of two of the most economically important forest trees in the world were released by Canadian and Swedish scientists. In Canada, the conifers supply raw materials for the forest industry, accounting for $23.7 billion of the nation's economy in 2011, while the gross output of the Swedish forest industry was $29.7 billion in 2009. Between them, the ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214717665/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 11:15:16 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214717665/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Image Caption: Across America 2013 - 2nd leg from Phoenix Sky Harbor to Dallas Forth Worth. B. Piccard and A. Borschberg after the landing. Credit: Solar Impulse |Revillard| ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716343/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 11:15:16 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716343/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Image Caption: This is a life reconstruction of the new small-bodied, plant-eating dinosaur Albertadromeus syntarsus. Credit: Art by Julius T. ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214717666/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 11:15:16 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214717666/scat/a9927dde6777aafc with the three recently returned International Space Station astronauts from 3-4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 23. This event will connect the ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214717542/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 11:09:46 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214717542/scat/a9927dde6777aafc New Yorker , usually culled from the pages of lesser publications, under the heading: "Block That Metaphor!" It's sound advice, on the whole. There's nothing necessarily wrong with mixed metaphors, if they are well mixed: by flooding his china shop, Foulkes almost comes up with an evocative image, though he rather spoils it with the flat-hooved bull. But they are usually the ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716663/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 11:08:57 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716663/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi ordered preparation of an evacuation plan on Thursday for the country’s North Pole 40 (SP-40) drifting polar research station, due to the break-up of the ice floe it is located on. The break-up of the ice floe poses a threat not only to the station itself and the 16 scientists working there, but could also ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716823/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 10:59:41 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716823/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Police investigate incinerator's role in Tim Bosma slaying HAMILTON, ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716510/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 10:58:10 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716510/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The headquarters of the Canada Revenue Agency is photographed in Ottawa, November 4, 2011. (Chris Roussakis/QMI Agency) ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716511/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 10:58:09 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716511/scat/a9927dde6777aafc David James Leblanc, 47. (Police handout) BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - A man accused of kidnapping and raping a teen boy in a remote Nova Scotia cabin for more than a week has pleaded guilty to five of seven charges. David James Leblanc pleaded guilty Thursday morning to kidnapping, forcible confinement, sexual assault, uttering threats and breaching probation. Two other charges were dropped after a plea ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716512/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 10:58:09 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716512/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has become the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest - although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716994/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 10:55:55 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716994/scat/a9927dde6777aafc For the most part, we got along pretty well, but there were a few people who rubbed each other the wrong way. When you're hungry, cold, and tired, you forget about almost everything else and are only thinking about surviving. Watson, one of the nurses, said, "Anything a medic can do, I can do," and that's exactly what she did. That's how most of the nurses were. They ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716361/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 10:55:50 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716361/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, as a helicopter hovers above, the Gemini-12 spacecraft with parachute open descends to the Atlantic on Nov. 15, 1966, with astronauts Jim Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214717667/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 10:53:38 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214717667/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Prom night! In 2009, in the night sky over the Very Large Telescope observatory at Paranal, Chile, the moon "danced" with Venus and Jupiter. (ESO/Wikimedia Commons) It's prom season -- for the planets. Every couple of years, give or take, planets get together in the night sky in such a way that they seem to be aligned with each other. They seem to be, really -- from Earth's ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716660/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 10:49:41 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716660/scat/a9927dde6777aafc LONDON (Reuters) - Two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries were known to security services, a source close to the investigation said ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716728/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 10:49:26 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716728/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu May 23, 2013 10:37am EDT * Importer expected to plead guilty, faces up to 12 years in prison * Case is part of broad government corruption crackdown * Trials of more foreign businessmen expected By Marc Frank HAVANA, May 23 (Reuters) - The trial of a Canadian businessman who has confessed to bribing Cuban officials began on Thursday, almost two years after his arrest in a sweeping government ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214718190/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 10:37:34 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214718190/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Washington, May 23 : Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, a UC Irvine-led research has ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716102/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 10:00:24 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716102/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A physicist claims to have formulated a mathematical theory that explains why the universe works the way it does - and it feels like 'the ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716103/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 09:56:24 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716103/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Albert Einstein 's general theory of relativity, not agree with each other?Solving these problems, the last one in particular, has been the goal of many generations of scientists. A final theory of nature would have to explain all of the outstanding questions and, though many (including Albert Einstein himself) have tried, no one has come close to an answer.At 4pm on Thursday at the ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716104/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 09:56:22 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214716104/scat/a9927dde6777aafc TOKYO, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian rocket will launch South Korea’s latest multipurpose Arirang-5 satellite on August 22, Seoul's science ministry said on Thursday. The rocket will blast off from the Yasny launch center in the Orenburg Region in the south Urals. A backup launch date has been set for August 23, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said, without ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214715286/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 09:46:42 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214715286/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Colorado shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes makes his first court appearance in Aurora, Colo., in this July 23, 2012, file photo. (REUTERS/RJ Sangosti/Pool/Files) DENVER - Public defenders representing James Holmes, accused of killing 12 moviegoers in Colorado last summer, will return to court on Thursday to challenge the state’s insanity defence law in a bid to try to avoid the death ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214714840/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 09:45:19 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214714840/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Jailed Pussy Riot punk rock group member Maria Alyokhina is pictured on a monitor, as she takes part in a video conference from the penal colony, inside the courtroom during a hearing in the town of Berezniki May 22, ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214715199/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 09:36:22 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214715199/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Israel and Britain signed Today Memorandum of Understanding on Science Cooperation Ministry for Science, Technology and Space May 23, 2013 Foreign Secretary William Hague and ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214715306/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 09:21:05 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214715306/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A police forensics officer investigates a crime scene where one man was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013. British Prime Minister David Cameron has called a meeting of his government's emergency Cobra security committee after the killing of a man in south London, his office said on Wednesday REUTERS/Stefan ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214713502/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 08:33:11 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214713502/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ingrid Loyau-Kennet, right, who talked to attackers in Woolwich before police arrived on the scene, during a television interview. Photograph: Ken McKay / Rex ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214714011/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 08:25:08 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214714011/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 2 Mindscapes is our new column on brain science with a difference: we meet people who live with the world's most mysterious neurological ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214714661/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 08:16:17 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214714661/scat/a9927dde6777aafc With his 1979 novel "The Fountains of Paradise," science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke introduced the idea of space elevators to the mainstream scientific community and the general public. The fundamental principle hasn't changed much in more than 40 years: A space elevator would consist of a powerful cable, or tether, anchored on one end to the Earth and on the other to a ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214713277/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 07:40:57 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214713277/scat/a9927dde6777aafc study , titled "Temperature dependence of trophic interactions are driven by asymmetry of species responses and foraging strategy" and published in ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214713276/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 07:39:50 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214713276/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Russian scientists using special space imaging techniques said they found evidence of 10 new oil deposits in eastern Siberia. Researchers from the Tomsk Polytechnic University told state news agency RIA Novosti they used a special optics system to reveal boundaries for 10 oil deposits in parts of Krasnoyarsk Territory. Geology Associate Professor Valery Rostovtsev told the news agency there is ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214712844/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 07:03:55 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214712844/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Lilydale Park. (Screenshot from stpaul.gov) MINNEAPOLIS - One child was killed and another is missing after students on an elementary school fossil-hunting field trip were swept into a water-filled pit when part of a hillside gave way at a park in St. Paul, Minn., authorities said. Two other children were injured as were two firefighters responding to the incident on Wednesday involving fourth ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214711797/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 06:12:15 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214711797/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSCOW, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin finds it very important to pool efforts of all countries and the expert community to ensure equal security and a joint strategy of the struggle against the threats and challenges emerging in the Euro-Atlantic ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214710230/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 05:16:17 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214710230/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A delightful partnership of science, poetry, photography and insects, this informative and witty book is an excellent introduction to common British minibeasts, intended especially for young ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214710976/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 05:14:40 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214710976/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting of his intelligence chiefs on Thursday after two Islamists hacked a soldier to death with meat cleavers on a south London street. A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker just minutes after Wednesday's killing showed a man with hands covered in blood shouting Islamic slogans and promising revenge on Britain for its participation in wars ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214710552/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 04:53:58 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214710552/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson and pilot Mark Stucky celebrating the successful flight of SpaceShip2 under rocket power. (AFP PHOTO / Handout / Mark Greenberg) British billionaire Richard Branson said Monday that rocket-powered space tourism flights by his firm Virgin Galactic would have only a minor impact on climate change. More than 500 people have already reserved seats -- and paid ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214710977/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 04:39:16 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214710977/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Almost €7 million in funding for 62 early stage scientific research projects is to be announced by the Government. The funding is being targeted at projects which may have a commercial benefit with further development. The investment is being made as part of Science Foundation Ireland's Technology Innovation Development Award programme. It is also being carried out in collaboration ... http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214708179/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 23 May 2013 03:00:36 -0400 http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/sid/214708179/scat/a9927dde6777aafc