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Thunderstorms cause 5th delay for space shuttle
AP – Tue Jul 14, 12:22 am ET

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Thunderstorms once again forced NASA to call off the launch of space shuttle Endeavour on Monday, the fifth delay for the space station construction mission.
Study: 1918 flu survivors seem immune to swine flu
AP – Mon Jul 13, 7:36 pm ET

WASHINGTON - The way swine flu multiplies in the respiratory system is more severe than ordinary winter flu, a new study in animals finds.
Space companies eye HI as potential new frontier
AP – Sun Jul 12, 4:31 am ET

HONOLULU - Tourists coming to Hawaii for high-end getaways could someday be launched from the sand to the stars, taking island-hopping to new heights.
Searchers shovel Northwest dirt seeking giant worm
AP – Sun Jul 12, 1:45 am ET

MOSCOW, Idaho - The giant Palouse earthworm has taken on mythic qualities in this vast agricultural region that stretches from eastern Washington into the Idaho panhandle — its very name evoking the fictional sandworms from "Dune" or those vicious creatures from the movie "Tremors."
SKorean police: Hackers extracted data in attacks
AP – 1 hr 2 mins ago

SEOUL, South Korea - Hackers extracted lists of files from computers that they contaminated with the virus that triggered cyberattacks last week in the United States and South Korea, police in Seoul said Tuesday.
Special alloy sleeves urged to block hackers?
AP – Sun Jul 12, 2:57 am ET

To protect against skimming and eavesdropping attacks, federal and state officials recommend that Americans keep their e-passports tightly shut and store their RFID-tagged passport cards and enhanced driver's licenses in "radio-opaque" sleeves.
Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears
AP – Sun Jul 12, 12:01 am ET

Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.
Fast-growing kelp invades San Francisco Bay
AP – Sat Jul 11, 3:04 am ET

SAN FRANCISCO - A fast-growing kelp from the Far East has spread along the California coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco Bay, worrying marine scientists and outpacing eradication efforts.
Mysterious tremors detected on San Andreas Fault
AP – Thu Jul 9, 2:01 pm ET

LOS ANGELES - Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857.
Americans favor science, but less than before
AP – Thu Jul 9, 5:36 pm ET

WASHINGTON - The share of Americans who see science as the nation's greatest achievement is down sharply, even as the public continues to hold scientists in high regard. A new Pew Research Center poll indicates that 27 percent of Americans say the nation's greatest achievements are in science, medicine and technology, more than any category other than don't know.