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Countdown Begins for World's Biggest Physics Experiment
AP - Sun Aug 31, 3:33 PM ETGENEVA - In a 17-mile circular tunnel beneath the French-Swiss border, engineers are chilling 1,600 superconducting magnets to near absolute zero for the September 10 startup of the Large Hadron Collider — the biggest, most expensive science experiment ever built.
» Full Story- U.N. Chief: Next U.S. President Must Lead on Climate AP - Sun Aug 31, 3:33 PM ET
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday that the next American president must put the United States at the head of the fight against global warming, with negotiations for a new climate treaty entering their decisive final year. - Arctic Ice Melt Nears Last Year's Record Low AP - Sat Aug 30, 1:44 PM ET
Arctic sea ice is approaching last year's record minimum and, for the first time in recorded history, both the Northwest and Northeast Passages stand open at the same time, scientists reported this week. - Amazon Deforestation Jumps as Soy and Cattle Push Inland AP - Sat Aug 30, 3:29 PM ET
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon accelerated sharply over the past year, satellite data show, as high prices for soy and beef push ranchers and farmers deeper into the world's largest rainforest. - Lights Out? Experts Fear the World's Fireflies Are Dwindling AP - Sat Aug 30, 12:09 PM ET
The summer evening light show may be fading. Entomologists say fireflies are in decline across much of the world, dimmed by development, pesticides and a modern glow the beetles cannot compete with: light pollution. - NASA Marks 50 Years With an Eye on the Moon — and the Gap AP - Fri Aug 29, 5:22 PM ET
Fifty years after its founding, NASA is racing to build the rockets and capsule that will return Americans to the moon by 2020 — while bracing for an awkward five-year stretch when the United States will have no spacecraft of its own. - Atlantis on the Pad for Hubble's Last Service Call AP - Fri Aug 29, 11:26 AM ET
Space shuttle Atlantis stands on its seaside launch pad for an October mission to the Hubble Space Telescope — the fifth and final servicing call, and one of the most technically demanding flights NASA has ever attempted. - Phoenix Lander Races the Coming Martian Winter AP - Thu Aug 28, 6:05 PM ET
Three months after its flawless landing near the Martian north pole, NASA's Phoenix lander is in a race with the seasons: the sun is sinking, the first dust storms are coming, and within weeks the lander will freeze for good. - Plague Threatens Prairie Dogs — and the Ferrets That Eat Them AP - Sat Aug 30, 1:44 PM ET
A plague outbreak spreading through prairie dog colonies in the West is threatening a fragile conservation success: the black-footed ferret, America's most endangered mammal, which dines almost exclusively on prairie dogs.
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