Provides the latest RSS feeds for Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Sydney Sun.com http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/cat/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 05:28:56 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:28:56 -0400 30 Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn were spotted soaking up the sun on the golfer's yacht in Florida on Tuesday. Woods, 37, was photographed shirtless as he fished off the back of the boat named Solitude in a baseball cap, shorts and sneakers, People Magazine reported. Woods' daughter Sam from his marriage to his ex-wife Elin Nordegren was also hanging out on the boat, People magazine reported. ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214579200/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 06:40:02 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214579200/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A two-day EduFest 2013 at the GP Women's College in Imphal attracted a large number of students and parents seeking career guidance. Organised by the Lynchpin Group, it was attended by about 40 reputed colleges from across the country. Major institutions like Sharda University and Amity University set up stalls to assist students in choosing the right academic courses, including MBBS, MBA, ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214578343/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 06:20:03 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214578343/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Most scientists agree that human activity is causing global climate change, according to an extensive analysis of the abstracts or summaries of scientific papers published over the past 20 years. But the public perception tends to be that climate scientists disagree over the fundamental cause of climate change. To help put a stop to the squabbling, two dozen scientists and citizen-scientists ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214577492/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 04:50:03 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214577492/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on Friday.The explosion on March 17 was the biggest seen since NASA began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago. So far, more than 300 strikes have been recorded."It exploded in a flash ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214598739/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 03:06:00 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214598739/scat/a9927dde6777aafc on the murky ethics of creating life in a petri dish.Now almost 10,000 babies are born in Canada each year through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, as the unheard of has transformed into the unremarkable.The latest twist is the possibility of preserving human eggs long enough for a woman to outrun her own biological clock. Hence headlines in glossy magazines like, "Now that everyone's ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214598097/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 02:04:40 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214598097/scat/a9927dde6777aafc mental health will face its greatest upset in years on Saturday with the publication of the long-awaited and deeply-controversial US manual for diagnosing mental disorders.Early drafts of the book, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, have divided medical opinion so firmly that authors of previous editions are among the most prominent ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214596972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 01:10:03 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214596972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Source: Reuters An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of a 40kg rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists have said. The explosion on March 17 was the biggest seen since NASA began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago. So far, more than 300 strikes have been recorded. "It exploded in a flash ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214597455/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 01:04:14 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214597455/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Reuters © Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/ Michelle ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214596213/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 00:13:42 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214596213/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A VIA Rail passenger train pulls into the Cobourg station in the file photo. (QMI Agency/JEFF GARD) CHATHAM, ONT. - Ontario's police watchdog agency has been called in after a man was struck and killed by a Via Rail train while police looked for him. The Special Investigations Unit said Friday that Chatham-Kent police were investigating a man who made his way to the rail tracks just after ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214595989/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 22:23:23 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214595989/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Monday, May 6, 2013: Jamie Byron, 23, is charged with human trafficking, assault, living off the avails of prostitution of a person under 18 with the use of violence, intimidation or coercion. He has pleaded not guilty. Laurie Foster-MacLeod/Ottawa Sun OTTAWA - The girl who says Jamie Byron beat her and pimped her out to more than 100 men when she was just 17 ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214595990/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 22:23:22 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214595990/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 1 of 4. Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, 2013. Some 20 to 25 people were injured on Friday in a train accident near Fairfield, Connecticut, a Fairfield Police spokesman said on ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214594791/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 21:30:26 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214594791/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Of course, what we really want, and what this community wants, is to see this entire property preserved. Back in 2007 we led the community effort to preserve the Sherman property, the western half of the Buena Vista Creek Valley. Now a developer, McMillin, is proposing to put 656 condos and apartments on the eastern half, right to the edge of the preserve and through the heart of the ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214594639/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 20:48:33 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214594639/scat/a9927dde6777aafc One man charged in Tim Bosma's murder TORONTO - Toronto Police have confirmed they are reviewing the death of Wayne Millard, father of a man now charged with the kidnapping and murder of an Ancaster man. Homicide squad Staff-Insp. Greg McLane said Friday investigators are continuing to look into Dellen Millard’s Etobicoke connection when it comes to the suicide death of his father ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214593957/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 20:30:25 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214593957/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214594641/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 20:25:45 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214594641/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Reuters) - The jackpot for the Powerball lottery has soared to a record $600 million and the top prize may swell to nearly $1 billion if no one draws the winning numbers this weekend, a lottery official said on ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214594126/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:57 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214594126/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The founders of troubled Kazakh miner ENRC have been given more time to come up with a better bid, but the City isn't convinced a better offer will be ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214593711/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 19:32:24 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214593711/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Michael Thomas Rafferty LONDON, Ont. - Michael Rafferty has been denied one way to get taxpayers to fund the appeal of his conviction in the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of an eight-year-old girl. So he’s trying another. Sentenced to life last May for the first-degree murder of Victoria ‘Tori’ Stafford in 2009, Rafferty was denied legal aid to hire a lawyer in ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214592882/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 19:21:49 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214592882/scat/a9927dde6777aafc RCMP scouring Senate audits OTTAWA - New Democrats want all records related to Mike Duffy's expenses made public in light of allegations he billed taxpayers while campaigning for Conservative candidates in the 2011 election. And the official Opposition says Duffy is still "mooching off taxpayers" by resigning from the Conservative caucus to sit as an independent rather than doing ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214593071/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 19:21:49 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214593071/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Roman sky on May 2.Every photograph is actually a time exposure--images may be recorded in a fraction of a second or over hours. Shutter speed can be adjusted to do either very long or instantaneous ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214593713/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 19:19:36 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214593713/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA's lunar monitoring program has detected hundreds of meteoroid impacts. The brightest, detected on March 17 in Mare Imbrium, is marked by the red square. Credit: ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214593714/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 19:04:36 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214593714/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Senator Pamela Wallin is seen during a luncheon at the Conference of Defence Associations in Ottawa Feb 21, 2013. Andre Forget/QMI Agency ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214593715/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 18:57:53 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214593715/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. - A mother and her toddler were bound to a basement pole with duct tape during a home invasion on Monday, police say. Police say the home in Sault Ste. Marie was targeted. Two men - at least one armed - broke into the house and ordered a woman, carrying her one-year-old daughter, to the basement. The mom and tot were taped to a pole by one man as the other ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591754/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 18:13:02 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591754/scat/a9927dde6777aafc These two men are wanted for allegedly stealing gifts from a wedding reception in Mississauga on May 4, 2013, Peel Regional Police said. (Handout) ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591946/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 18:13:01 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591946/scat/a9927dde6777aafc International Space Station (ISS), including U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy (pictured), completed a 5.5-hour spacewalk on May 11 to repair a leaky coolant ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214592562/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 18:10:49 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214592562/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Yale Galanter, O.J. Simpson's former defense attorney, reacts during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 17, ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591974/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 18:04:47 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591974/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A combined view of the coronal mass ejection, or CME, that occurred on May 17. The center yellow image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and shows the sun as seen in UV light. The SDO image is superimposed on top of an image from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory showing the CME propagating into space. Credit: NASA/SDO/Goddard, ESA&NASA ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214592582/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:55 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214592582/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Alaska Volcano Observatory has reported that the remote Pavlof Volcano continues to erupt and is now spewing lava, ash and steam 20,000 feet into the sky, which has been traveling southeast towards the Gulf of Alaska since Thursday. The Alaska Volcano Observatory ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591450/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:18:56 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591450/scat/a9927dde6777aafc German researchers have uncovered another cautionary tale about the importation of a species that quickly becomes an invasive threat. Introduced to Europe and North America for the purpose of controlling pesky greenhouse aphids, the Asian lady beetle escaped into the ecosystem and quickly dominated the local ladybug population. According to a new report in the ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591449/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:18:56 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591449/scat/a9927dde6777aafc weather remains one of those things in life that can't actually be changed, but being able to predict and track weather is the next best thing. By being able to improve forecasting and storm tracking abilities are just two ways that the United States National Weather Service ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591451/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:18:56 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591451/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Is it a case of anteater virgin birth, a hormonal quirk or just some desperate hanky-panky? Whatever it is, Armani the anteater's surprising pregnancy has sparked a debate over what animals are capable of when it comes to sex.The story unfolded at ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591452/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:16:40 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591452/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ionut Budisteanu, 19, of Romania was awarded first place for using artificial intelligence to create a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car at this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. When self-driving cars reach the masses, thanks may be due to a 19-year-old high-school student from Romania who developed an artificial intelligence that slashes the cost of the ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590363/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:16:39 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590363/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Moosehead heir bludgeoned with axe: Report The prime suspect in the murder of New Brunswick beer baron Richard Oland is his son, Dennis, it was revealed Friday after a judge lifted the publication ban in place since last fall. Oland, 69, was found dead in his Saint John office on July 7, 2011. Unconfirmed reports at the time said he'd been brutally beaten, possibly bludgeoned with an axe. ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590425/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:02:36 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590425/scat/a9927dde6777aafc IROQUOIS, Ont. - They say people have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than winning the lottery, and for Rodney Benton, that proved to be true. Benton, a Grade 7/8 teacher at Seaway District High School in this town south of Ottawa, was at home plate hitting balls to students Wednesday when he noticed some menacing clouds moving in and said, "Just a couple more hits then ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590723/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:02:35 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590723/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Another killer in Quebec not criminally responsible WINNIPEG -- Greyhound bus killer Vince Li has been granted more freedom, including supervised trips to Winnipeg, Lockport and its beaches. ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590469/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:02:33 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590469/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Pre-Hadfieldian! A picture captured by Gordo Cooper aboard Faith 7 (NASA) Imagine being alone, in space. Just you and your shiny spacesuit and your tiny metal capsule, the world splayed beneath you in swaths of blue and swirls of white. The only immediate link to the humans below you being a faint, crackling radio line back to Earth.It sounds kind of amazing, right? The first fortunate human to ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590754/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 16:54:06 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590754/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Russian Progress M-19M resupply spacecraft attached to the International Space Station was used to adjust the station's orbit Friday, Russian officials say. The space freighter's engines were run for slightly more than 15 minutes to raise the ISS's orbit by about 1.6 miles, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The station's orbit is now 259 miles above ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590531/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 16:44:36 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590531/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Kate Siena handles Porter, an injured male snapping turtle, at the Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre Tuesday. Porter and another injured female turtle were flown to the Peterborough trauma centre this past weekend. FILE PHOTO / THE OBSERVER Who says turtles can’t fly? Not a group of volunteers who went the distance to help a 13 lb. snapping turtle this weekend. When a driver found Porter the ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591454/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 16:37:58 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591454/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla is escorted out of the courtroom after listening to the verdict in his trial at a courthouse in the province of Cordoba in this December 22, 2010 file photo. (REUTERS/Tribunal Federal/Handout) BUENOS AIRES - Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "dirty war" dictatorship and ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591455/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 16:37:57 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214591455/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The U.S. space agency, NASA, has just spotted the biggest explosion on the Moon in the eight years since the agency has been monitoring lunar impacts caused by meteoroids. "On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214589406/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 16:12:22 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214589406/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); SNC's Dream Chaser test flight craft is hauled across the bed of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on May 15, ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590156/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 16:08:23 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590156/scat/a9927dde6777aafc O.J. Simpson enters the courtroom at an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Ethan ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214589035/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 15:50:35 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214589035/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.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214589351/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 15:46:36 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214589351/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Two months ago, NASA observed the largest explosion on the Moon that they’ve ever seen. And today, they’re talking about it and have released a cool video that shows the event as it took place. The explosion was caused by a meteorite, 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide, weighing in at about 40 kilograms. When it hit the moon, it was travelling at 56,000 miles per hour. According to NASA, it ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590151/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 15:42:24 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590151/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An elite U.S. Navy SEAL was killed and seven service members were injured in a vehicle accident during a training exercise at Fort Knox, Kentucky, the Navy said on ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214589537/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 15:41:47 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214589537/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Gaza across the Egyptian border. Mohammed al-Madani, financial manager of al-Yamama company, said the business idea came when employees contacted a friend who works at the KFC in al-Arish, Egypt, with some orders and they were able to smuggle the food through a tunnel within three hours, The Christian Science Monitor reported Friday. "Then we asked ourselves, 'Why don't we ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214589082/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 15:32:59 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214589082/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A survey of thousands of papers in scientific journals has found 97.1 percent agreed climate change is caused by human activity, an Australian-led study found. The near unanimity creates a powerful rebuttal to climate skeptics who insist the science of climate change remains unsettled, the survey authors said. Of the 4,000-plus papers that took a position on the causes of climate change, only ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590152/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 15:32:52 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214590152/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Space NASA scientists have recorded the biggest ever meteorite impact on the Moon, with an explosion equal to 5 tons of TNT. The event is part of 'lunar meteor showers' observed by astronauts of the Moon exploration program. The 40-kg meteorite measuring 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide traveling 56,000 mph slammed through the Moon's surface on March 17, 2013.The explosion from the ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588865/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:41:21 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588865/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Heavily-armed tactical officers mix with uniformed cops at a command post set up at Auvergne and St. Louis streets on Sunday morning after a Gatineau police officer was shot in the leg Saturday night while breaking up a bush party. Her injuries were not life threatening. (TONY SPEARS/QMI ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587838/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:38:53 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587838/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Elijah Harper speaks at the Manitoba Legislature on June 14, 1990. Harper, who was instrumental in defeating the Meech Lake Accord in 1990, died on Friday, May 17, 2013. (JOE BRYKSA/QMI Agency) WINNIPEG - Elijah Harper, one of Manitoba’s most respected aboriginal leaders, has died. Harper, the former Manitoba MLA and Cree leader who was a key figure in shutting down the failed Meech Lake ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588140/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:38:50 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588140/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ground Alberta beef in seen in coolers at Bon Ton Meat Market in Calgary on October 3, 2012. Bon Ton stated it was not effected by the recent E.Coli outbreak as they get their meat from select smaller producers. (REUTERS/Todd Korol) The federal government released new safety measures Friday requiring beef that's been mechanically tenderized be labelled as such and include cooking ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588139/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:38:50 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588139/scat/a9927dde6777aafc GRANBURY, Texas (Reuters) - All seven of the people listed as missing following a monster tornado on Wednesday have now been accounted for in Granbury, Texas, leaving the death toll at six, authorities said on ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588184/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:29:33 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588184/scat/a9927dde6777aafc climb steeply in the US a growing number of psychiatrists are arguing that suicidal behaviour should be considered as a disease in its own right, rather than as a behaviour resulting from a mood ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:21:06 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Screengrab/YouTube) A homeless man who achieved brief Internet fame for disrupting a California attack with his hatchet was arrested and charged with homicide on Thursday in the killing of a New Jersey attorney found bludgeoned to death in his home, officials said. Police arrested Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, 24, known as "Kai the Hitchhiker," at a bus terminal in Philadelphia, Union ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588867/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:13:24 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588867/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Woes of Rob Ford TORONTO - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has dismissed claims he was caught on video smoking crack cocaine ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588868/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:13:20 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214588868/scat/a9927dde6777aafc On November 17, 1970 the Soviet Luna 17 spacecraft landed the first roving remote-controlled robot on the Moon. Known as Lunokhod 1, it weighed just under 2,000 pounds and was designed to operate for 90 days while guided by a 5-person team on planet Earth at the Deep Space Center near Moscow, USSR. Lunokhod 1 actually toured the lunar Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) for 11 months in one of the ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587470/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:43:08 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587470/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Oxford University researchers in a new study found that a weak electrical signal can help boost a person’s mathematic skills over a period few months. The team wrote in the ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587460/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:41:46 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587460/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Scientists have known for some time that melting glaciers are contributing to the global sea-level rise. However, the amount being contributed by each region of the planet has never before been calculated with the accuracy of a new study led by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Clark University. Ninety-nine percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214586183/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:41:45 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214586183/scat/a9927dde6777aafc largest ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica . High shoreline markings from three million years ago as Earth was going through a warm period were thought to be evidence of a high sea level due to ice sheet collapse at the time - an assumption that has led many scientists to believe that if the world's largest ice sheets collapsed in the past, they will do so again. Global warming is adding ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587459/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:41:45 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587459/scat/a9927dde6777aafc New corruption probe for Italy's Silvio Berlusconi MILAN - The nightclub dancer at the centre of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s "bunga bunga" sex trial told a court on Friday that guests at the media tycoon’s parties dressed as nuns, nurses and U.S. President Barack Obama. Karima El Mahroug, better known by her stage name "Ruby the ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214586140/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:13 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214586140/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Pockets of water trapped in rocks from a Canadian mine are over a billion years old, and the water could contain life forms that can survive independently from the sun, scientists said this ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214586438/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:16:36 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214586438/scat/a9927dde6777aafc When Terry Serigny was growing up in Leeville, Louisiana, in the 1950s, the Mississippi River delta town was also known as Orange City for its many citrus groves. Today none of those groves remain. Leeville itself is vanishing, sinking into the Gulf of ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214586993/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:16:35 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214586993/scat/a9927dde6777aafc "Maxed Out on Everest: How to fix the mess at the top of the world" in National Geographic magazine.) Thousands of prayers flags fluttered in the breeze. National flags from myriad nations rippled in the wind, too. It was an international village at the foot of the Khumbu Icefall, and it bore no resemblance to the one I visited 29 years earlier in the spring of 1983. That year we ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587446/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:16:35 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587446/scat/a9927dde6777aafc William Borucki, principal investigator for NASA's Kepler mission , to get his thoughts on the current status of the spacecraft, its science, and what the future may hold for planet ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587445/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:16:35 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587445/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This space wallpaper of the nebula NGC 3603 shows globules of gas and dust; giant, gaseous pillars; young stars surrounded by debris disks; aging, massive stars; and a blue supergiant star--all various stages in star ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587462/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:14:37 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587462/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 1 of 4. Outgoing acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller is sworn-in during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 17, ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587449/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:14:05 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587449/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Threatwatch is your early warning system for global dangers, from nuclear peril to deadly viral outbreaks. Debora MacKenzie highlights the threats to civilisation – and suggests ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587464/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:01:41 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587464/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WANT to keep tabs on your pet? Just slap a new coin-sized tagging device on it. The tag transmits a radio pulse that can be picked up at least 20 kilometres away - much further than existing tags can signal - and crucially, it needs no batteries to ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587463/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:01:41 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214587463/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Schoolchildren, pensioners and office workers are helping scholars at Oxford University to transcribe 2,000-year-old documents. In the 1890s archaeologists dug up a huge haul of papyri written in ancient Greek ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214585913/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 12:13:27 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214585913/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 'The book should be required reading for today's millionaire ministers who seem sadly lily-livered by contrast with Grey [above] and his Whigs.' Photograph; ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584823/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 12:13:12 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584823/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Earth's atmosphere and a starry sky just off the port wing of the docked space shuttle Endeavour photographed by the Expedition 28 crew, while the shuttle was docked with space station on the STS-134 mission. ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214585694/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 12:08:56 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214585694/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Brad Marchand scored with 4:20 left in the first overtime and the Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers 3-2 in the first playoff game in 40 years between the Original Six ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584680/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 12:02:15 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584680/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Conservative Senator Mike Duffy leaves following a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa March 27, 2013. (REUTERS/Chris Wattie) OTTAWA - Sun News Network has dismissed a CTV story based on one anonymous source claiming Sen. Mike Duffy tried to lobby the CRTC to approve Sun News's application for placement on basic cable. "Senator Duffy does not, nor has he ever, been employed as ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214585018/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 12:01:35 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214585018/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., tells the stories of five great scientific mistakes in his new book "Brilliant Blunders" (Simon & Schuster, May 14, 2013). These stories serve to show how even the smartest among us can err, and that in fact to achieve a big breakthrough, big risks are necessary, which sometimes also involve big failures. Below ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584468/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 11:49:50 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584468/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Art of Science competition run by Princeton University in New Jersey, entitled The history of gliding, depicts the squiggly gliding paths of the bacteria Myxococcus xanthus. M. xanthus ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214585923/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 11:42:22 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214585923/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An earthquake centred northwest of Ottawa has rattled buildings and nerves across a wide swath of Ontario and Quebec.Earthquakes Canada again revised its original report Friday, saying it registered a 5.2-magnitude temblor with an epicentre located about 17 kilometres northeast of Shawville, Que., about an hour's drive outside the national ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214583508/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 11:04:12 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214583508/scat/a9927dde6777aafc With spring come thoughts of green growing plants and beautiful flowers - Mother Nature showing off her finest. Wim L. Noorduin, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584239/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 11:01:26 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584239/scat/a9927dde6777aafc contradicts the idea that scientists are deeply divided on the topic, the authors said. ';An accurate perception of the degree of scientific consensus is an essential element to public support for climate policy," wrote the researchers from the United States, Australia and Canada. ';Communicating the scientific consensus also increases people’s acceptance that climate ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214582979/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 11:01:26 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214582979/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Josh Schimel , when they traveled north recently to study the effects of long-term warming on the carbon storage of the Arctic. ';We expected that because of the long-term warming, we would have ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584240/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 11:01:25 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584240/scat/a9927dde6777aafc gray whale there, marking the first time the giant mammal has ever been observed south of the equator. In 2010, a North Pacific gray whale was confirmed to have wandered into the Mediterranean Sea, but scientists speculated it had arrived via the increasingly ice-free Northwest Passage. The significance of the current sighting has caused considerable excitement among marine biologists, and may ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214582980/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 11:01:25 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214582980/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Seen here is the mother of the victim who was raped at age (seven) speaking to LT Sergio Kock and Detective Constable Pico Tau (Investigating Officer from Kimberley FCS) Picture: Danie Van der ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584242/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 10:39:59 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584242/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the X-38, a research vehicle built to help develop technology for an emergency Crew Return Vehicle from the International Space Station, is seen just before touchdown on a lakebed near the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards California, at the end of a March 2000 test flight. The X-38 Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) research project is designed ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584243/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 10:38:22 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584243/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Male dinosaurs may not have had a caring side after all. Five years ago a study of theropod dinosaurs concluded that it was male dinosaurs that incubated the eggs. Now a new analysis of the same data is challenging that ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584228/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 10:23:47 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584228/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA's Cassini spacecraft . Methone is utterly unlike the other small balls of ice and rock that dot the solar system, which are deeply scarred by impacts. Instead it is smooth, with not a hill or pockmark in sight. Now astronomers may have a clue as to why: Methone is made of lightweight ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584244/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 10:23:46 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214584244/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSCOW, May 17 (Itar-Tass) - The state may increase its share in the Energia rocket and space corporation from the current 38 percent to controlling stake, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said at a meeting with students of the Lomonosov Moscow State University on ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581517/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 09:39:46 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581517/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist. Prof James Hansen, who first alerted the world to climate change in 1988, said on Friday: "It is not true that the temperature has not changed in the two ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581520/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 09:38:19 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581520/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Why, in the age of Richard Dawkins's God Delusion, has one of our leading writers on genetics devoted himself to a book investigating the Bible's scientific credentials? And what explanations can science offer for people who had limbs amputated under the influence of 19th-century mesmerists?We investigate these and other issues with Steve Jones, the geneticist and science writer, whose ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581774/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 09:38:00 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581774/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Finally, what I know you've all been waiting for: the six shortlisted young people's science books have been selected and are now in the mail to hundreds of children across the UK who will select the winner of the 2013 Royal Society's Young People's Book ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581776/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 09:37:58 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581776/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An attendee uses Google Map on a Google Nexus 7 tablet in San Francisco on June 27, 2012. (REUTERS/Stephen Lam) A Chinese man abducted more than two decades ago has found his way home thanks to Google Maps, according to a local newspaper. Luo Gang was just five years old when he disappeared on his way to kindergarten 23 years ago, ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581477/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 09:26:56 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581477/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Commander Chris Hadfield is already back on Earth after five months in space, but before his return he recorded a revised version of a famous song ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214582721/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 09:17:12 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214582721/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CAN'T get to the phone? Try waving at it. A device that enables a smartphone's camera to recognise gestures - without gobbling up precious battery life - looks set to transform the way we make ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214582722/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 09:07:33 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214582722/scat/a9927dde6777aafc science policy , under the title "All hail to the chief". Except, I think science involves way too much hailing already. I'm not about to start bowing to Sir Mark Walport, just because he's the Government Chief Scientific Advisor. Neither do I think we should ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581298/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 08:24:20 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581298/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Everyone makes mistakes - even Einstein. The truth is, many of the world's greatest scientists made significant blunders along the path toward genius, which should be comforting news for the rest of us. To illustrate this reality, astrophysicist Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., highlights five of ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581319/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 08:09:45 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581319/scat/a9927dde6777aafc International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The space freighter’s engines were run for 922.4 seconds (just over 15 minutes). As a result of the maneuver, the ISS’s orbit was raised by about 2.8 kilometers [1.6 miles], the spokesman said adding that the station’s orbit is now 430.3 kilometers (259 miles) from Earth. The ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581320/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 08:00:16 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214581320/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Reuters files) SYDNEY - A startled kangaroo knocked an Australian politician to the ground and clawed his leg after its morning graze on a suburban lawn was interrupted by the jogging lawmaker. The eastern grey kangaroo was grazing on the front yard of a house a short distance from Australia’s national parliament in Canberra when Greens politician and keen triathlete Shane Rattenbury ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214579275/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 07:06:00 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214579275/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (micro_images/Fotolia) TORONTO - She watched her husband writhing in excruciating pain in the torture chamber of their Toronto apartment and lifted not a finger. For three long months, she watched as her spouse was degraded, beaten and sexually abused by her new boyfriend and said not word. Now she says she’s sorry. "I just feel horrible for what really happened to my husband," ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214579406/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 07:05:55 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214579406/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Philippa Langley, originator of the Looking for Richard III project, with the model, commissioned by the Richard III Society. Photograph: Gareth ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214579112/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 06:06:54 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214579112/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Washington, May 17 : A new device proposed by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno and Stanford University that would detect elusive gravity waves from the other end of the cosmos, may open a new window into the nature of the ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214578171/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 05:03:06 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214578171/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Washington, May 17 : The Kepler space telescope - NASA's primary instrument for detecting planets beyond our solar system -- had suffered a critical failure and could soon be shut down permanently, the agency's officials announced Wednesday, May ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214578172/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 05:03:06 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214578172/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Potatoes and other white vegetables are just as important to a healthy diet as their colorful cousins in the produce aisle, according to the authors of a scientific supplement published in the peer-reviewed journal, Advances in Nutrition. Although green, red and orange veggies are often promoted as top nutrient sources, white vegetables are nutrient powerhouses in their own right and deserve a ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214577669/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 05:02:18 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214577669/scat/a9927dde6777aafc . Radium is a dense silvery-white alkali earth metal that rapidly oxidises to black when exposed to air. Radium is rare; only four isotopes of radium occur in the wild, and these are found in uranium ores. All isotopes are highly radioactive and the isotope with the longest half-life is radium-226 (a decay product of uranium-238), which has a half-life of 1601 years. Radium is not very ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214578173/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 04:59:09 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214578173/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An aerial infrared image shows the outline of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat in Watertown, Massachusetts in this file photo taken April ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214576726/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 03:42:23 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214576726/scat/a9927dde6777aafc recent study of the behaviour of parole board judges revealed this interesting human trait. The law isn't supposed to put the rumbling of stomachs above fact and reason, but that's the problem when those charged with administering it are ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214577340/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 03:24:28 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214577340/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Campaigners against the use of journal impact factors as a proxy for research excellence received a shot in the arm last night with the launch of ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214576405/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 02:44:22 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214576405/scat/a9927dde6777aafc working as one cohesive whole , which is important for things like playing sports and staying alive for more than three seconds. TMS simply causes these electrical currents, which the body ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214576404/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 02:44:21 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214576404/scat/a9927dde6777aafc What occupies your mind in the car? I listen to Howard Stern on Sirius XM. I’ve been a big Howard Stern fan since I was 10-way too young to be listening. Sometimes I try to listen to new music, but I guess I like the rhythm and the sound of neurotic people yelling at each ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214574818/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 01:16:13 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214574818/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Legislature may to be moving forward on constitutionally dedicating $200 million each year from the state's sales tax to preserve open space and ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214574635/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 00:32:15 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214574635/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CARLOS CHAVEZ/Special to The Star Agoura High School senior Tanner Saul, recipient of the Young Naturalist Award from the American Museum of Natural History, kneels in the Santa Monica Mountains. Agoura High School senior Tanner Saul has been chosen by the American Museum of Natural History to receive one of it 2013 Young Naturalist ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214573711/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 16 May 2013 23:30:39 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214573711/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Eric White, of the Honest Lawyer, pushes out a cart of liquor outside the LCBO in Ottawa on May 16, 2013. (Darren Brown/QMI Agency) TORONTO - Here's something to cheer about. The LCBO reached a tentative deal with its unionized employees late ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214573188/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 16 May 2013 23:10:19 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214573188/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Amego electric vehicles president Victoria Block in her showroom on Richmond St. in Toronto. (Dave Thomas/Toronto Sun) TORONTO - Carol Dorman felt like she had nowhere else to go, except into traffic. The 56-year-old was riding her turquoise electric bike along Queen St. W. when a taxicab cut her off. Until that point, she rode in bike lanes because she felt safer. Then she learned it was ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214573713/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 16 May 2013 22:44:30 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214573713/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Reuters) - An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday, court records ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214572306/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 16 May 2013 21:53:45 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214572306/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NEW YORK, NY - As summer travel season approaches, Americans planning vacations - particularly those planning on flying - have a lot of decisions ahead. With the increasing "a la carte"-ization of air travel, flyers are faced with an ever increasing number of choices as to what levels of comfort and convenience they want and are willing to pay for. Findings from a new Harris Poll show ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214572427/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 16 May 2013 21:48:06 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214572427/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Critics want cops called on overspending senators OTTAWA - Sen. Mike Duffy resigned as a Conservative senator Thursday night to sit as an Independent after new allegations were raised about inappropriate expense claims. The sudden turn followed questions about who paid Duffy's $90,000 housing allowance claim and new revelations he campaigned for Tory candidates in the 2011 federal election ... http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214572862/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 16 May 2013 21:33:51 -0400 http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/sid/214572862/scat/a9927dde6777aafc