Provides the latest RSS feeds for Space Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Kansas City Post.com http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/cat/89d96798a39564bd/ en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 17:58:48 -0400 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:58:48 -0400 30 '); Astronaut Neil Armstrong's original electrocardiogram recording from the moment he stepped onto the moon in July 1969 is among the lots that were withdrawn from RR Auction's May 2013 ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214643567/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 17:20:52 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214643567/scat/89d96798a39564bd Scientists will visit Capitol Hill Tuesday (May 21) to testify before Congress about what it will take to send humans to Mars. A hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives' Science, Space and Technology Committee is scheduled for 2 p.m. EST, and will feature astronomers known for their expertise in moon ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214643568/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 17:20:52 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214643568/scat/89d96798a39564bd WASHINGTON, May 20 (RIA Novosti) – If you blinked you might have missed it, but NASA cameras captured video of the largest explosion it has ever seen on the moon, when a meteorite crashed into the lunar surface in a bright burst of light visible to the naked eye. "On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface," said Bill Cooke of ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214642994/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 17:06:18 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214642994/scat/89d96798a39564bd Bion-M’s mission patch. Credit: NASA A menagarie of animals launched to space last month has arrived back on Earth — with a few casualties for the ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214643571/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 16:56:48 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214643571/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); British astronaut Tim Peake will be the first British crewmember of the International Space Station when he launches in 2015. He represents the UK and European space ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214642304/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 16:17:40 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214642304/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drilled into this rock target, "Cumberland," on May 19, 2013, collecting a powdered sample of material from the rock's interior. Analysis of the Cumberland sample will check results from "John Klein," the first rock on Mars from which a sample was ever collected and ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214642303/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 16:17:40 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214642303/scat/89d96798a39564bd The original "Star Trek" television series featured technology that had first appeared decades earlier in science fiction stories. Pulp heroes had been wielding ray guns, flying faster than light and teleporting from place to place since the 1930s. But perhaps the true inspiration of Star Trek’s superscience is the revolutionary physics discoveries of the early 20th century. ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214642305/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 16:17:39 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214642305/scat/89d96798a39564bd TEXTING IN THE RAIN: It's pouring with rain and you just have to send an urgent text or email from your phone. But that's OK, because you have your trusty umbrella. Or is it? Have you ever tried to type on your phone while holding an umbrella? The Brolly has you covered because of its special grip with holes for your fingers. The grip is made from rubber and ABS plastic, so it's comfortable, ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214643570/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 16:15:00 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214643570/scat/89d96798a39564bd Link to video: Tim Peake to become first official British astronaut to visit International Space Station There is the urge to explore the endless heavens, there are the mysteries of the starry cosmos to solve, but above all there is the faltering economy to revive.Of all the reasons nations give for sending their citizens ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214641278/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 16:10:37 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214641278/scat/89d96798a39564bd decision to target of one of its reporters , James Rosen, in a national security leak investigation. Executive Vice President Michael Clemente portrayed the government's actions as an assault on "what up until now has always been a free press." "We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter," ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214641317/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 16:03:04 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214641317/scat/89d96798a39564bd Image from May 7, 2013 of a the inner region of Comet ISON, as seen with the 2-meter La Palma Telescope. Credit: Nick Howes and Ernesto Guido, Remanzacco Observatory. In April, when the Hubble Space Telescope looked out towards Jupiter's orbit and observed what has been billed as the "Comet of the Century" - Comet C/2012 S1 ISON - ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214642307/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 15:53:28 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214642307/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); One of many fresh impact craters spotted by the UA-led HiRISE camera, orbiting the Red Planet on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter since ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214641092/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:42 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214641092/scat/89d96798a39564bd SAN MATEO, Calif. - The organization whose big-money prizes helped get the private spaceflight industry off the ground isn't done issuing high-profile challenges to spur exploration of the final frontier. The nonprofit X Prize Foundation, which awarded $10 million to a groundbreaking private spaceship in 2004 and is currently offering $30 million in prize money for a private race ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214641091/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:41 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214641091/scat/89d96798a39564bd NEW YORK -; A spate of anti-gay attacks in New York City is prompting police to increase their presence in some gay-friendly neighborhoods heading into what's usually a time for ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639823/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:34 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639823/scat/89d96798a39564bd Helen Sharman, Britain's first cosmonaut, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1991. Her journey aboard the Mir space station was not supported by the British government. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214640301/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 15:06:11 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214640301/scat/89d96798a39564bd exit system is long overdue." A full-fledged biometric entry-exit system is favored by many senators but was deemed too expensive and unworkable to include in the bill. Current law already requires such a system to be in place, but the Department of Homeland Security has not implemented it. Instead the bill seeks electronic scanning of photo IDs. Under Hatch's amendment, the ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639896/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 14:56:14 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639896/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/M. Spencer Green, File - FILE - In this May 14, 2013 file photo, Donald Trump arrives at federal court n Chicago to testify at a civil trial where he's accused of enticing investors to ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639895/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 14:56:13 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639895/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack at the Kamaliya district in Baghdad May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639897/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 14:56:11 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639897/scat/89d96798a39564bd its 787s back in the air. The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. The incidents included an emergency landing of one plane, and a fire on another. The incidents never caused any serious injuries. But the January grounding embarrassed Boeing, which makes the 787, and disrupted schedules ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639898/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 14:56:10 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639898/scat/89d96798a39564bd Interstate 70 near Vandalia, about 70 miles east of St. Louis. Zimmerman says many of the victims were ejected from the van. The six others in the 15-passenger van have been hospitalized. Details of their conditions have not been released. Details of what caused the crash or to whom the van belonged are not immediately available. The Associated Press has left messages with Fayette County ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639899/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 14:56:08 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639899/scat/89d96798a39564bd Google's announcement last week that it plans to launch a new quantum computing laboratory with NASA may have boosted a highly specialized and slightly obscure field of study into a more mainstream light. The search-engine giant says quantum technology will help the company build better, more accurate search engines, and will help advance the field of artificial intelligence. But don't ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214640997/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 14:46:28 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214640997/scat/89d96798a39564bd series of 56 images shortly thereafter. NASA stitched the pictures together into one long strip, which you can tour in the video above. As always, satellite images testify to the wonder of the biosphere. This particular set of pictures, though, is a simple meditation on the diversity of conditions on Earth, and the mark that humanity has left on the ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214640223/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 14:45:52 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214640223/scat/89d96798a39564bd South Pole IceCube neutrino observatory has seen a handful of ghostly high-energy neutrinos that almost certainly came from outer space, opening up the skies for neutrino ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214641088/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 14:37:06 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214641088/scat/89d96798a39564bd /enpproperty--> The Dutch businessman behind a planned one-way trip to Mars, which has received a flood of applicants from China, has dismissed accusations that the project is a scam. Mars One has been promoted as a manned mission to establish a human colony on the red planet. Anyone who fits the physical requirements can apply for the trip, with organizers expected to whittle the pool down ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639667/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:46 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639667/scat/89d96798a39564bd Brookings Institution said. Suburbs, however, still have a smaller percentage of the poor than cities do. The report notes that poor people were pulled to the suburbs by more affordable homes and followed jobs that were often low paying. But those who moved to the suburbs also saw manufacturing jobs disappear and housing prices plummet following the economic recession. "The myth of ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214638555/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 13:42:21 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214638555/scat/89d96798a39564bd Immigration Services officer Norma Christian speaks with an immigrant at the USCIS office on May 17, 2013, in New … The president of a union that represents 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees announced his opposition to the immigration reform bill in the Senate on Monday morning. "The legislation will provide legal status to millions of visa overstays while ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214638554/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 13:42:19 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214638554/scat/89d96798a39564bd NEW YORK (AP) -- The college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer. A moment later ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214638553/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 13:42:18 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214638553/scat/89d96798a39564bd Nighttime image of southern India and Tropical Cyclone Mahasen (NASA/NOAA) Last Monday, May 13, the Suomi NPP satellite captured a fascinating image of Tropical Cyclone Mahasen as it moved northeast over the Bay of Bengal. The clouds of the storm itself weren’t optically visible in the darkness of a nearly new Moon, but lightning flashes within it were… as well as the eerie ripples ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639669/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 13:32:33 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639669/scat/89d96798a39564bd CHICAGO (CBS) — A statue was unveiled at a southwest side elementary school, in honor of the space crew killed in a space shuttle disaster ten years ago, reports WBBM’s Craig Dellimore. The Columbia Explorers Academy on South Kedzie was built to honor the astronauts of the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of that tragedy, Alderman Edward Burke ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639248/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 13:26:43 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214639248/scat/89d96798a39564bd In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the Sikorsky JH-19 Chickasaw was used for several purposes, including dropping research models. The Sikorsky helicopter is seen here, in March of 1965, in the middle of its NASA career, with a model of the Apollo spacecraft attached to the drop mount near the cargo door. The H-19 was later sent to the Navy's Cheatham Annex in Yorktown, ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214638300/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 12:51:09 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214638300/scat/89d96798a39564bd Biohacking -- treating your diet and your body the way a hacker might -- is an emerging trend among the technorati in Silicon Valley and New York. Can it catch on with more of the population? Is it for everyone, or just the elite on the coasts? And does it really ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214638302/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 12:35:51 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214638302/scat/89d96798a39564bd This stunning space wallpaper is a Landsat image of the Clearwater Lakes in Canada's Quebec province. Located to the east of the Hudson Bay, what appears to be two separate lakes is actually a single body of water that fills two depressions. The depressions were created by two meteorite impacts, believed to have hit Earth simultaneously up to 290 million years ago. The name 'Clearwater ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214638303/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 12:29:44 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214638303/scat/89d96798a39564bd A former army test pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake will live and work on the space station for six months in November 2015. At a news conference at the Science Museum in London, where he was announced as the first UK astronaut in space for 20 years, he said it is a great ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214637428/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:24 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214637428/scat/89d96798a39564bd MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Two people are dead and at least 20 are injured after two car bombs exploded Monday in Dagestan, in Russia's North Caucasus region, where armed militias are leading an Islamist insurgency. Both blasts were near the headquarters of the court bailiffs and appeared to have been detonated by remote control, a Russian state agency told Reuters. Police cordoned ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214637429/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:14 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214637429/scat/89d96798a39564bd British astronaut Timothy Peake training in a Soyuz simulator. Credit: European Space Agency The name is Peake. Timothy Peake. And he’s set to follow in the (fictional) footsteps of fellow British citizen James Bond with a stay on a space ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214636698/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 11:22:15 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214636698/scat/89d96798a39564bd But what's really neat is that, zoomed in, you can see actual beers on this list--brews that should taste the same, given the analysis of all sorts of criteria (like how people describe the beer and objective measurements of ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214635700/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 11:21:05 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214635700/scat/89d96798a39564bd In this Saturday, May 18, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians inspecting the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria. The town of Qusair has been besieged for weeks by regime troops and pro-government gunmen backed by the Lebanese militant ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214634593/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 10:47:39 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214634593/scat/89d96798a39564bd President Barack Obama crosses the South Lawn as he returns from travel to Atlanta via Marine One, at the White … The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of the State Department, and seizing two days of Rosen's personal ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214634268/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 10:28:29 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214634268/scat/89d96798a39564bd A tornado is spotted in South Haven, Kansas, May 19, 2013. (Jeremy Wilkins/YouTube) Less than a week after a string of tornadoes killed six people in north ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214634269/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 10:28:28 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214634269/scat/89d96798a39564bd WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an Alaskan village's claim that it should be able to sue oil companies and utilities for damages attributed to climate ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214634365/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 10:21:35 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214634365/scat/89d96798a39564bd A rural location is ideal for listening to the subtle sounds of the aurora with a VLF radio. Just turn it on, don the earphones on and hold the unit skyward. Credit: Bob King Do the aurorae makes sounds? That’s been a subject of discussion — and contention — among people who watch the sky. While most of us will never hear the aurora borealis directly, there’s help out ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214635290/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 10:18:43 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214635290/scat/89d96798a39564bd This Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, photo, shows a sign in front of Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/The Associated ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214633952/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 09:41:21 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214633952/scat/89d96798a39564bd Are quantum computers about to revolutionise our lives? You might think so now that Google has bought one from the only organisation that sells them, D-Wave of Burnaby, Canada. However, questions remain over just how D-Wave's quantum computers work and whether they would beat ordinary computers in like-on-like ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214633948/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 09:08:07 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214633948/scat/89d96798a39564bd Commercial space activities may soon utilize a NASA launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that was designed for the Apollo space program. The agency said it plans to announce proposals for commercial use of Launch Pad 39A, which when implemented would "encourage commercial space activities along Florida's Space Coast and fully use the historic launch complex." ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214634054/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 09:07:15 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214634054/scat/89d96798a39564bd It's easy to become jaded about announcements in the tech world. Slick, media savvy CEO's announce "revolutionary" new products with metronomic regularity. Version 1.0 becomes 1.1 and eventually 2.0 and on and on. It all seems like a ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214631951/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 08:33:17 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214631951/scat/89d96798a39564bd New York City seems alien enough to many of its visitors, but imagine how strange it would look if whisked away to another planet. A new art project does just that, transplanting the Big Apple to ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214631719/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 07:41:11 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214631719/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); Christopher Georgia took this photo of the Milky Way galaxy from Hunter's Head at Acadia National Park, Maine. He used a Nikon D3s camera with a Nikon 14-24 mm at 18 mm lens, 20-second exposure, ISO 2500 and F/2.8. The photo is a nine shot panorama taken in portrait position released to SPACE.com on May 11, ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214631722/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 07:41:10 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214631722/scat/89d96798a39564bd High-tech weapons may be screaming through the skies at five times the speed of sound by the middle of the next decade, U.S. military officials say. That's the most optimistic timeline for the battlefied debut of a superfast new strike capability, officials said, and it depends on continued research into hypersonic vehicles like the Air Force's X-51A Waverider, which completed ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214631721/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 07:41:10 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214631721/scat/89d96798a39564bd Saturn's atmosphere is similar to that of Jupiter. Again, NYC is shown at about 62 miles above a layer of liquid hydrogen and helium, amid clouds of ammonia ice with occasional thunderstorms. As with Jupiter, atmospheric gases are highly reducing and would slowly dissolve any metal oxide surface, like the green patina that covers the Statue of ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214631720/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 07:41:10 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214631720/scat/89d96798a39564bd The US Navy has recovered an exceptionally rare artifact off the coast of Coronado, California - and if that wasn't enough, the item in question was actually discovered not by humans, but by ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214630994/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 07:40:03 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214630994/scat/89d96798a39564bd Students milling about the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, which has faced steep state cuts. … When high school senior Jenny Bonilla got her college acceptance letter in March, she felt shock and heartbreak rather than joy. That's because the letter from Goucher College, a private liberal arts school in Baltimore, also brought news that she would owe an ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214630882/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 07:27:23 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214630882/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Owen Humphreys, PA - In this photo Thursday, April 25, 2013 Lucy Butler,15, getting ready to have her measles jab at All Saints School in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, England, as a national ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214630883/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 07:27:22 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214630883/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the past week. The bloodshed has raised fears of a return to the widespread sectarian violence of 2006-2007 that brought the country to the edge of civil war. In the Iraqi capital, nine car bombs went off, striking at bus stops, market places and in the streets of Shiite areas during the busy morning hours, killing 24 people and wounding 112, according ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214630884/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 07:27:20 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214630884/scat/89d96798a39564bd Turkey on Monday, causing one of them to crash to the ground, officials said. One Brazilian tourist was killed while 24 other people on board were injured. The ascending balloon struck another balloon's wicker basket above it, causing a tear that sent it plunging to the ground, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The passengers on board the balloon that crashed were mostly tourists from ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214630885/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 07:27:19 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214630885/scat/89d96798a39564bd (Image: USGS/ESA) "I'VE a feeling we're not in Kansas any more." Indeed not, we are 700 kilometres above Kansas, looking down from the venerable Landsat 5 satellite. What you can see is how huge swathes of the state have been given over to agriculture. It ain't known as the nation's breadbasket for ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214631724/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 07:20:27 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214631724/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA has modified the first huge external space shuttle tank, a fix meant to avoid repeating a 2003 tragedy that killed seven astronauts and has grounded the shuttles since, the agency said Tuesday.An inquiry board recommended the repair to prevent pieces of insulating foam breaking away from the skin of the tanks and striking the shuttle itself, which was the apparent cause of the February 1, ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214630582/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:51 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214630582/scat/89d96798a39564bd Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Thursday.Roskomos spokesman Vyacheslav Davydenko told AFP that since the US space shuttles stopped supplying the jointly manned station in the wake of the February 2003 Columbia disaster Russia had been shouldering ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214629860/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:51 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214629860/scat/89d96798a39564bd A former helicopter pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), it was confirmed ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214628701/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 05:34:47 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214628701/scat/89d96798a39564bd 20 May 2013 A former helicopter pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), it has been ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214628105/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 04:42:44 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214628105/scat/89d96798a39564bd By ERICA WERNERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Judiciary Committee is aiming this week to pass a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions, setting up a high-stakes debate on the Senate floor. First, the committee must resolve a few remaining disputes. One involves amendments over high-skilled immigrant visas sought by the high-tech industry ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214627950/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 04:42:06 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214627950/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Evan Vucci, Pool - FILE - In this April 21, 2013 file photo U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey. Monday, May 20, 2013, Kerry heads back to ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214626872/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 04:39:14 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214626872/scat/89d96798a39564bd SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Authorities were searching for at least two gunmen who walked up to the door of a Northern California home and opened fire, killing a 10-year-old girl and injuring her parents. "Whoever these gunmen were, they were directly outside the front ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214626874/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 04:39:11 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214626874/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA scientists have got the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL) announced on Wednesday.The images were captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraf, according to JPL in Pasadena, Los Angeles.On Dec. 5, 2010, Cassini first detected the storm that has been raging ever since. It appears approximately 35 ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214628137/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 04:16:50 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214628137/scat/89d96798a39564bd Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Wednesday in a statement.The discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that very young black holes grew more aggressively than previously thought, in tandem with the ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214628138/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 04:16:46 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214628138/scat/89d96798a39564bd KABUL, Afghanistan -; Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has struck outside a provincial council building in the country's north. A lawmaker says the council chief and at least seven others were ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214626162/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 03:59:03 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214626162/scat/89d96798a39564bd The official Xinhua News Agency said rescue work was continuing at the site of Monday morning's explosion in Shandong province's Caofan township. It said 34 people were inside the factory at the time of the blast, and only 14 of them have been found so ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214626163/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 03:59:02 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214626163/scat/89d96798a39564bd CNN's poll , conducted over May 17-18. According to their survey, Obama's approval rating is at 53 percent. While that's a two percent rise since early April, the difference is within the margin of error of the survey, so we'll say that the president's approval rating here remained steady. Forty-five percent of Americans, meanwhile, disapprove of the job the ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214625100/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 02:52:51 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214625100/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/The Connecticut Post,Brian A. Pounds - A derailed Metro-North rail car is hoisted back on to the tracks in Bridgeport. Conn. on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Crews will spend days rebuilding ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214625099/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 02:52:50 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214625099/scat/89d96798a39564bd China had collected all the data needed to draw its first full map of the moon surface and was almost done with the mapping work, Sun Jiadong, the chief designer of the country's Chang'e -1 lunar probe has ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214625141/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:19 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214625141/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Sean Murphy - People survey damage from a tornado that hit Edmond, Okla., on Sunday, May 19, 2013. A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214624511/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 02:01:04 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214624511/scat/89d96798a39564bd The British space industry is being given a boost with confirmation that Britain's first official astronaut is to take part in a mission on the International Space Station in 2015. Major Tim Peake has undergone 14 months of rigorous training, which has included survival courses and exercises under water and underground. Now almost three years after graduating as an astronaut, the ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214623950/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 01:07:08 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214623950/scat/89d96798a39564bd United Airlines is getting its 787s back in the air. The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. The incidents included an emergency landing of one plane, and a fire on another. The incidents never caused any serious injuries. But the January grounding embarrassed Boeing, which makes the ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214623584/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 00:18:10 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214623584/scat/89d96798a39564bd Amateur rocketeer Ken Biba speaks at Maker Faire Bay Area on May 18, 2013. At left is the rocket he and his team built, which flew to more 104,000 feet in September ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214623694/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mon, 20 May 2013 00:11:44 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214623694/scat/89d96798a39564bd United States Two FBI agents from the elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident.The Federal Bureau of Investigation says they died off a beach in Virginia.US media reports say the accident involved a ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214621552/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 20:50:38 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214621552/scat/89d96798a39564bd The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214620993/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 19:43:05 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214620993/scat/89d96798a39564bd It's time at last for "Drill, Baby, Drill!" – Martian Style. Ever wonder how Curiosity "Does It" Check out this enlightening and cool new NASA video for an exquisitely detailed demonstration of just how Curiosity shakes, rattles and rolls on the Red Planet and swallows that mysterious Martian ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214620446/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 18:58:11 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214620446/scat/89d96798a39564bd HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is warning commuters that a traffic mess awaits them in southwest Connecticut for as long as a week until service is restored to Metro-North following a derailment that injured scores of ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214620279/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 18:56:44 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214620279/scat/89d96798a39564bd Police shot a teenager and arrested another suspect while investigating a car theft inside a rental car return area at Jacksonville International Airport in ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214619124/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 17:37:59 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214619124/scat/89d96798a39564bd In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News, Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pruitt says DoJ's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional", ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214619388/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 17:18:11 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214619388/scat/89d96798a39564bd Armando Morales can be a dangerous man, whichever side he’s on. Once Morales handled illicit business for the Fresno, Calif., Bulldogs street gang. Then his compelling testimony against a former cellmate secured the conviction of the man accused of killing Chandra Levy. Now the former gang-enforcer-turned-prison-snitch is back in the hot seat. What happens next might turn the Levy murder ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214618631/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 16:48:51 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214618631/scat/89d96798a39564bd Obama address the IRS scandal at a news conference. (Alex Wong/Getty) Republican Senators Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and Rob Portman continued Sunday to press the Obama administration on the Internal Revenue Service scandal that's engulfed the White House. On CNN's "State of the Union," Paul told Candy Crowley he heard about a "written policy" that encouraged IRS ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214618517/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 16:39:56 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214618517/scat/89d96798a39564bd AIR DROP: SheerWind's Invelox wind energy generators capture the breeze from high above ground and funnel the wind down through a tapering passageway that accelerates its flow to drive a turbine at ground level. Once it's turned the turbine the air is released back into the environment. If necessary, the air from several towers can be sent through a single generator for the sake of efficiency. ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214620445/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 16:20:00 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214620445/scat/89d96798a39564bd After five months in space, International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield has returned to the planet. While manning the ISS he also created the first music video in space, using a rendition of David Bowie's "Space Oddity." NBC's Brian Williams ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214618430/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 15:59:14 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214618430/scat/89d96798a39564bd Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of the country's biggest bank, faces a key test this week: His shareholders are voting on whether to let him keep both jobs. It's been just more than a year since his bank, JPMorgan Chase, revealed a surprise trading loss that tarnished its usually stellar reputation in Washington and on Wall Street, and what a difference it has made. Shareholder groups ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214618213/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 15:38:01 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214618213/scat/89d96798a39564bd London, May 19 : Britain's first "official" astronaut, 41-year-old Major Tim Peake, has been selected to go on a five-month mission to the International Space Station in 2015, a media report said ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214617671/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 15:07:00 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214617671/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/The Connecticut Post, Christian Abraham - Emergency personnel work at the scene where two Metro North commuter trains collided, Friday, May 17, 2013 near Fairfield, Conn. Bill Kaempffer, ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214617552/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 14:56:31 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214617552/scat/89d96798a39564bd TUNIS (Reuters) - One protester died and several were injured when Tunisian Islamists defied a ban on their demonstration and clashed with police on ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214617539/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 14:48:05 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214617539/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Ben Margot - A woman prepares to choose her numbers on a lottery ticket Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the Chinatown district in Oakland, Calif. A record Powerball jackpot has climbed to $600 ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214617017/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 14:04:31 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214617017/scat/89d96798a39564bd Obama speaks in Baltimore, May 17, 2013. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) President Barack Obama took a break from the trifecta of controversies--IRS, Benghazi, Deptartment of Justice--swirling around the White House on Sunday to deliver the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution in Atlanta. "What I ask of you today is the same thing I ask of every ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214617018/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 14:04:28 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214617018/scat/89d96798a39564bd View results DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) - Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday.Officials did not have a formal confirmation or any specifics on the condition, but based on the accounts of authorities and witnesses on the ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214616548/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 13:28:58 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214616548/scat/89d96798a39564bd KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- NASA is offering companies some prime real estate at the Kennedy Space Center. The space agency is going to seek proposals for commercial use of Launch Pad 39A, which is the pad that sent astronauts to the moon aboard Apollo and the space station via space shuttles. NASA wants companies, such as United Launch Alliance and SpaceX, to use the historic pad. The agency ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214616837/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 13:17:27 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214616837/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Andrew Medichini - Pope Francis greets the faithful in St. Peter Square at the Vatican, after celebrating a Pentecost mass, Sunday, May 19, 2013.(AP Photo/Andrew ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214616490/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 13:13:26 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214616490/scat/89d96798a39564bd PHOENIX (AP) -- A police officer who was conducting a DUI stop on a vehicle in west Phoenix died after another vehicle struck him and then fled the ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214616830/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 13:09:18 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214616830/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); A "Blue Marble" image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's Earth-observing satellite -- Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on Jan. 4, ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214616900/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 13:08:41 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214616900/scat/89d96798a39564bd In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214615958/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 12:35:29 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214615958/scat/89d96798a39564bd Mars looms large in a Hubble Space Telescope photo - and in the imaginations of those who have signed up for a one-way trip to the Red Planet. "It's not that I'm trying to get away," says 18-year-old Kayli McArthur, one of tens of thousands of applicants. "It's like I'm trying to strive for something ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214616371/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 12:32:36 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214616371/scat/89d96798a39564bd President Obama took this past week on a trio of political scandals, any public opinion survey results that aren't dreadful probably are viewed with some relief at ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214615937/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 12:23:38 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214615937/scat/89d96798a39564bd Taylor Swift to fun. to Maroon 5 -- are the key finalists at Sunday's awards show, airing live from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on ABC. Those acts are up for 11 awards ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214615938/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 12:23:29 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214615938/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet ISON was taken on April 10, 2013, when the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter's orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the sun (394 million miles from ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214615823/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 11:44:45 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214615823/scat/89d96798a39564bd BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Commuter trains damaged in a crash in Connecticut were being removed Sunday in the first step to making repairs and restoring service, the agency that runs Metro-North ... http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214615400/scat/89d96798a39564bd Sun, 19 May 2013 11:39:53 -0400 http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/sid/214615400/scat/89d96798a39564bd