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Fertile ground for creationism

But she was taken aback when several of her Marmara University students recently accused her of being an atheist, or worse, for teaching anything but the doctrine that God created the Earth and everything on it. "They said I was a liar if I called ...

From MARC KAUFMAN, The Washington Post,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Charles Darwin,  John Morris (politician)

Bursts of Methane Gas Detected on Mars

The methane is released into the atmosphere in specific areas and at regular times, they found, in a pattern that would be consistent with the gas being a byproduct of biological activity beneath the planet's parched surface. Principal investigator ...

From MARC KAUFMAN, The Washington Post,  15 Jan 2009
Related Topics: NASA

Proposed Road in Refuge Raises Fears About Drilling

The road would initially ban commercial traffic, but some think it could one day be used to move workers between King Cove, above, and Cold Bay. Aleutians East Borough Mayor Stanley Mack cited visits by executives of Shell, which in 2007 paid about $1 ...

From MATTHEW MOSK AND MARC KAUFMAN, The Washington Post,  9 Nov 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress

Extra-Nutritious Bioengineered Foods Still Years Away

So far, however, that has generally not happened, and the main beneficiaries of agricultural biotechnology remain farmers battling pests and weeds that threaten staple crops such as soybeans, corn and cotton, as well as the companies that develop and ...

From MARC KAUFMAN, The Washington Post,  2 Nov 2008

NASA Restores Hubble Camera

The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which operates the Hubble for NASA, said the new images captured by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 were a "perfect 10," equal in quality to what the telescope was delivering before one of its two ...

From MARC KAUFMAN, The Washington Post,  30 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NASA

NASA Engineers Restore Hubble Camera

A month after a key instrument failed on the Hubble Space Telescope -- delaying a planned space shuttle mission to upgrade and repair the orbiting observatory -- NASA engineers have succeeded in restoring the main camera to working order, officials ...

From MARC KAUFMAN, The Washington Post,  30 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NASA

Problems Prompt NASA to Wait on Restarting Hubble

Agency scientists said they remain optimistic that they will overcome the difficulties, but they said they do not yet know why the computer that controls all the science instruments shut down as the backup equipment was powering up. If an Earth-based ...

From MARC KAUFMAN, The Washington Post,  18 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NASA

Agencies Rated on Scientific Candor

The Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration have among the most restrictive policies in the federal government on releasing scientific information to the press and public, according to a "report card" being ...

From MARC KAUFMAN, The Washington Post,  17 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  NASA,  James Hansen,  Food and Drug Administration,  Barack Obama

Craft Flies 16 Miles From Moon Of Saturn

"Cassini flew closest to the equator of Enceladus to collect those particles and then went into the plume coming out of the south pole at a much greater height," said project scientist Robert Pappalardo. The main goal of the mission, he said, is to ...

From MARC KAUFMAN, The Washington Post,  10 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NASA

Cassini flyby gathers dust, water particles from Saturn's moon

dared to fly the spacecraft so close to the moon earlier in its four-year exploration of Saturn and its surroundings, but the scientific and engineering team is now very familiar with the orbit of Enceladus and its gravitational force. Because the moon ...

From MARC KAUFMAN WASHINGTON POST, The San Jose Mercury News,  9 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NASA

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