Mars rover finds crater a little depressing

initial low-resolution images suggest the walls are shallow and sandy and that there is no bedrock exposed at all, except perhaps in one small metre-high area.
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Howard Stern's schwing voters

Declaring a "radio jihad" against President Bush, syndicated morning man Howard Stern and his burgeoning crusade to drive Republicans from the White House is shaping up as a colossal media headache for the GOP, and one they never saw coming.
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strange streaks

Streaks in the Martian sky
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Popularity of bison meat reaches record levels

The convergence of high-protein diets and the demand for healthier foods is making it a good time to be a bison producer.
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Early UK springs become 'normal'

The effects of climate change mean there is increasing acceptance by Britons of spring arriving early, scientists say.
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Masons Among Us

Induction ceremonies aren't supposed to go this way. William James, 47, was killed?shot in the face?during his induction at a Masonic lodge in Patchogue, N.Y., Monday.
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Legislators Urge E-Voting Halt

The March 2 primary "was a test-flight of widespread use of these machines. I think it's fair to say the test flight crashed and burned,"
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Avoiding the 'F word' on Mars

People have imagined Mars as an abode of life for so long ? centuries at least, probably much longer ? that NASA?s recent self-styled ?significant? announcement of strong evidence for liquid water long ago was, let?s face it, pretty ho-hum to both space enthusiasts and the general public.
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British OK GM Maize, Greenpeace Furious

Environmental group Greenpeace pledged to turn the issue into a "nightmare" for Blair at next year's expected election.

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Running Out of Oil -- and Time

How long will the world's long-term oil supplies last? As important, what will the big importing nations, like the U.S., do the day world oil production hits its inevitable peak?
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Dennis Miller Show Paying for Audience Members?

In case you haven't heard, the ratings for Dennis Millers new political show went right down the toilet. It's so bad that after less than two months on the air, Miller shut down to take about 10 days off and his producers at CNBC are totally 'revamping' the show.
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'Pristine' Amazonian rainforests are changing

Changes to apparently pristine parts of the Amazonian rainforests have been revealed by a survey of trees. Tall, fast-growing trees are doing better than those that grow slowly.

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Frog's a triple jumper

WHAT do you call a frog with three heads, six eyes and six legs?
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Chicken farm a viral soup

VANCOUVER - New tests have revealed that a rural B.C. chicken farm was a virus soup infected with mutating strains of avian flu, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Tuesday.

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300 Wyoming Elk Dead After Baffling Paralysis

Tom Reed, Publications Supervisor, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Cheyenne, Wyoming: "It's a very odd malady. These wild elk are all pretty alert. They are very cognizant of what is going on around them. They are very afraid when our people approach them, but they can't get away. They can't rise.
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Wind storm knocks bus from bridge

A bus toppled from a bridge in southern Illinois on Friday during blustery wind storms that tore across the Midwest
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Scientist urges US climate help

The US will have to help combat climate change if extreme weather events are to be avoided, the government's chief scientist has warned.
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X-Ray Diffraction Study Of Clay Minerals In Crop Circle Soils

the data appear to indicate that whatever caused the plant changes, also caused the soil changes at the same sampling locations. And yet we realize that the intense energy situation required to produce the soil effects would have destroyed the plants altogether.
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Search for Past Life on Mars

Possible Relic Biogenic Activity in Martian Meteorite
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Microorganisms from the Moon

They noticed that a few of the particles in the photographs were virtually identical to fossils of known biological species. Specifically, some spherical particles from the Luna 20 regolith plainly resemble fossils of modern coccoidal bacteria
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Did Ufo Bring Down Beagle?

European scientists are examining an image of the Beagle 2 Mars lander, taken moments after it was spun off from its mother ship, that also shows an unidentified object.
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The Enterprise Mission

A close-up enlargement of this fascinating object (above – bottom), reveals an apparently "snapped off" body geometry, at least five visible cylindrical "segments," and a hint of other fossil-like features buried in the surrounding rock itself – all classic hallmarks of a former living organism!

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Possible sighting of?Beagle probe - Mar 8, 2004

Beagle 2, the British space probe which disappeared as it descended towards Mars, may have been spotted on the surface of the Red Planet, scientists say.
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