Provides the latest RSS feeds for Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Sierra Leone Times.com http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/cat/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:47:22 -0400 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:47:22 -0400 30 A female Chinese astronaut Thursday said from space that she and her crewmates haven't seen any UFOs during the trip. Female astronaut Wang Yaping, one of the three crew members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft, greeted about 330 primary and middle school students at a Beijing high school through a live video feed system, about 340 km above the Earth, reported Xinhua. "Through the front windows, we ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215318313/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:30:02 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215318313/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MEXICO CITY, MEXICO Gustavo Barr?n, 22, glances at the books on display at the Feria del Libro Independiente, a book fair featuring independent publishing houses in Mexico City, Mexicos capital. While perusing the selection, Barr?n, a university student studying history, holds a book about guerrilla groups in Mexico in the 1970s and the transition to democracy. The publisher is Ce-Acatl, a ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215311522/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:15:51 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215311522/scat/a9927dde6777aafc PARIS The European Space Agency signed final contracts with Thales Alenia Space Italy for work on a pair of missions to assess if the planet Mars has or ever had life, officials said at the Paris Airshow this week. Until last year, the ExoMars program was a joint project between ESA and the U.S. space agency NASA. But NASA dropped out, citing budget problems. The Russian space ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306771/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:15:04 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306771/scat/a9927dde6777aafc www.scienceeurope.org ) is an association of 51 European research funding organisations (RFO) and research performing organisations (RPO) in 26 countries, founded in October 2011 and based in Brussels. It promotes the collective interests of the RFOs and RPOs of Europe and supports its member organisations in their efforts to foster European research. It aims to strengthen the European Research ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215321468/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:10:16 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215321468/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 29/06/2012 11:13 CET It’s not your average lecture when your professor is speaking to you from space. On Thursday China’s second ever female astronaut gave a special lesson on physics to 60 million Chinese schoolchildren and teachers back on earth, according to Chinese media. Aboard the Tiangong 1 module she explained the effects of zero gravity on weight and mass, and how objects ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215321489/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:51:44 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215321489/scat/a9927dde6777aafc At Frankfurt Airport, the teddy bear even gets a boarding pass: complete with name, destination, flight code, and seat number. And why not--after all, teddy and three-year-old Sara are inseparable companions! This is just one small example of how Frankfurt Airport looks after its little passengers. When kids are happy, their parents can relax and the whole family can look forward to an enjoyable ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215321652/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:51:41 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215321652/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Rogier Mars of the University of Oxford and colleagues scanned 36 people's brains. Using an algorithm, they created a map of how an area associated with theory of mind is connected to brain regions linked to abilities such as face recognition and interpretation. Next, the researchers scanned 12 macaque brains for a similar pattern of connections. An area involved in facial recognition had ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215321934/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:46:02 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215321934/scat/a9927dde6777aafc China 's fifth manned space mission, Shenzhou-10, is scheduled to end around 25 or 26 June. The crew is also expected to attempt a manual docking later on Thursday. This will involve getting back inside their Shenzhou capsule, unhooking from Tiangong and then flying around the lab to re-attach the capsule to the laboratory. 'Sixteen sunrises' Ms Yang used difference experiments to ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215320243/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:14:41 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215320243/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wang Yaping, China's second female astronaut, is one of three crew members sent to space last week on the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft. She delivered her lecture from the Tiangong-1 experimental space lab, which China views as a prototype for a full-fledged space station. Wang participated in a question-and-answer session with students in a Beijing school. She also conducted a series of ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319367/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:10:28 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319367/scat/a9927dde6777aafc BEIJING -- Astronauts struck floating martial arts poses, twirled gyroscopes and manipulated wobbling globes of water during a lecture Thursday from China's orbiting space station that's part of efforts to popularize the space program among young people. Wang Yaping demonstrated principles of weightlessness and took questions live from among the 330 grade school kids gathered at a ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319171/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:06:10 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319171/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The California Disabled Veteran Business Alliance, a nonprofit that for nearly 20 years has helped disabled military personnel become entrepreneurs and business owners, has moved into larger offices in the Natomas area.The alliance is now at 4201 Sierra Point Drive, Suite 101, just north of the intersection of Interstate 80 and Truxel Road. It formerly was at 1611 S St., in Sacramento.The group ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319782/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:04:44 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319782/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The naming of a new species is often taken to be a significant event in biology, much excitement in the media is devoted to the identification of a new species, but the truth is that it is mundane. Certainly some things are more rare than others (new mammals tick along at a rate far, far below that of new wasps for example) but the event itself is pretty commonplace. By the best estimates, ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319944/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:57:07 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319944/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Students at the Cui Gang Middle School in Yangzhou city, Zhejiang province watch a live space lecture on June 20, 2013. Students across China watched the live space lecture, which began at 10 am. The lecture from space was a first in Chinese history. The special lecture was given by a teacher aboard China's space module Tiangong-1 to students on Earth. [Photo by Meng Delong ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319394/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:54:43 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319394/scat/a9927dde6777aafc BEIJING, China - China has held its first classroom lecture from its orbiting space station as part of efforts to popularize the successful manned space flight program among young people. Female astronaut Wang Yaping took questions live from among 330 elementary and middle school students at a Beijing high school during the 51-minute class from aboard the Tiangong 1 prototype space station on ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319408/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:35:22 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319408/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The odds of living to 100 are highest in Japan, and their high-vegetable low-meat diet may be why, some of the elderly say. The Japanese Okinawa islands are said to include the largest proportion of centenarians in Japan, who eat a diet such as rice and tofu, bamboo shoots, seaweed, pickles and small cubes of braised pork belly, The Guardian reported. Many in Japan drink six or more cups of ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319409/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:29:48 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215319409/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A project using facial recognition technology has won two students first prize in a science competition. Yousif Al Hammadi and Nasser Al Rayhi, who are studying computer engineering at Khalifa University, won first place in applied sciences for their project "People Identification Using 3D Facial Images" in the Think Science competition. The competition was organised by the Emirates ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215318199/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:55:06 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215318199/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Crew members of Shenzhou-10 (back L-R) Wang Yaping, Nie Haisheng and Zhang Xiaoguang attend a press conference in Jiuquan, northwest China’s Gansu province on June 10, 2013. China is to send its second woman astronaut into orbit on its longest mission yet, space officials said on June 10, as the country works towards building a space station. AFP PHOTO BEIJING – A Chinese astronaut ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215317603/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:46:46 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215317603/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In the interactive exchanges with students back on the Earth, Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong-1 orbiter also answered questions related to water use in spacecraft, space debris protection measures, ways to deal with gravity-free environment as well as space ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215313473/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:38:13 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215313473/scat/a9927dde6777aafc China's first "space class" ended at about 10:51 am Thursday. The astronauts will continue to stay in the Tiangong-1 orbiter to conduct space science and technology ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215313561/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:38:12 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215313561/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wang Yaping makes a water film with a water bag and a metal ring. She explains to students that the surface tension of water magnifies in space due to zero gravity. Then she makes the second water film and pours water onto it. The water film turns into a water ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215313474/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:38:12 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215313474/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Students wait for the beginning of the space lecture at the ground classroom set at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, in Beijing, capital of China, June 20, 2013. A special lecture will begin at about 10:00 am Beijing time Thursday morning, given by a teacher aboard China's space module Tiangong-1 to students on Earth. Photo: ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215314114/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:38:11 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215314114/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wang Yaping shows a small ball tied with a string to a holder fixed on a metal plate. She lets the ball go and the ball suspends. Then she pushes the ball gently and the ball moves in a circular ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215313112/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:33:12 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215313112/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (18 mins ago) A special lecture began Thursday morning, given by a teacher aboard a space module about 340 km above her students on Earth, the first such attempt by Chinese. Female astronaut Wang Yaping, one of the three crew members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft, greeted about 330 primary and middle school students at a Beijing high school, through a live video feed system, Xinhua news agency ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215313113/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:19:42 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215313113/scat/a9927dde6777aafc About 330 primary and middle school students at a Beijing high school are eagerly waiting for their teacher to begin a class from the space on Thursday morning.The special lecture will begin in a few minutes, given by female astronaut Wang Yaping, one of the three crew members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft, through a live video feed system.The students are gathering at the High School Affiliated to ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215311928/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:26:29 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215311928/scat/a9927dde6777aafc China's top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng has called for scientific planning and effective measures to ensure the progress in the construction of the country's eco-environment.Yu, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), made the comments Wednesday at the closing meeting of the second conference of the 12th CPPCC ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215312304/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:26:23 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215312304/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wang Yaping, the female crew member among three ';taikonauts,'; will broadcast a lecture to students throughout China about physics from a space ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215311812/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:23:19 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215311812/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) VANCOUVER -- A Vancouver teacher is being reprimanded for having chatty ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215311687/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:16:36 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215311687/scat/a9927dde6777aafc File photo of cattle. IAN KUCERAK/QMI AGENCY WINNIPEG - Dozens of children have been removed from a small Manitoba Mennonite community as an investigation continues into allegations many of them were physically abused. A man and woman were arrested Monday and charged with 27 counts of assault and assault with a weapon. They appeared in Brandon court Tuesday and were released on bail. The two ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215310693/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:11:43 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215310693/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Visitors who bring in saved snowballs can name their own admission price. The North Side center is expecting hundreds of snowballs that survived in freezers. Guests bring their snowballs in coolers, freezer bags, frosty coffee cans, plastic storage containers and other things. The only thing guests need to figure out is how to keep the snowballs from melting in ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215311388/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:02:19 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215311388/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ex-N.S. MLA Russell MacKinnon pleads guilty in expense scandal HALIFAX - After admitting to fraud over $5,000 and breach of trust earlier this week, disgraced Nova Scotia Independent MLA Trevor Zinck finally took the hint and resigned from his seat. On Monday, Zinck reversed his plea in a case involving constituency expenses, admitting to fraud over $5,000 and breach of trust in exchange for a ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215310445/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:43:48 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215310445/scat/a9927dde6777aafc eczema , according to a new study by British researchers."One potential explanation is that broad-spectrum antibiotics alter the gut microflora and that this in turn affects the maturing immune system in a way that prompts allergic disease development," said researcher Dr Teresa Tsakok, who works at St Thomas's hospital in London.The findings, published in the British Journal of ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215309230/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:11:15 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215309230/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – The US affiliate of a Russian software company has developed a database for the city of Baltimore that would help its police department track down private surveillance video that could solve crimes, an executive from EastBanc Technologies’ (EBT) Washington office said Wednesday. "We’ve almost completed development of a database ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308593/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:02:52 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308593/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Police car lights. (QMI Agency) A 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder in New Orleans after causing the death of his 5-year-old half-sister using wrestling moves he had seen on television, police said. Viloude Louis died Sunday afternoon of blunt force trauma to her body, including broken ribs and a damaged liver, police said, after the boy wrestled with her using World Wrestling ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308117/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:01:29 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308117/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Freed Pussy Riot star says she's under surveillance Incarcerated Pussy Riot star Maria Alekhina is planning to stage a theatre production for fellow inmates at the prison where she is serving her sentence. The punk star was jailed for two years in 2012 after staging a musical protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin at a church in Moscow. She has been a vocal critic of conditions ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308116/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:01:29 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308116/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Glenn Beck (L) addresses the crowd during a Tea Party rally to "Audit the IRS" in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Gary Cameron WASHINGTON -- The United States government is trampling on Americans' civil rights, according to popular conservative commentator Glenn Beck. And the scandal currently embroiling the Internal Revenue Service, that it targeted ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308115/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:01:28 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308115/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The death of a dolphin in China that was photographed with beachgoers handling it shortly beforehand has sparked outrage on the country's social media ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308580/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:58:38 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308580/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Internet is buzzing over a photo of a woman getting sprayed in the face at close range with what appears to be pepper spray by a riot police officer in Rio de Janeiro (see above). The photo was reportedly taken on Monday, amid mass demonstrations in the ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308619/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:58:38 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308619/scat/a9927dde6777aafc FBI Director Robert Mueller gestures at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 19, ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308120/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:52:08 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308120/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Andrew Todd lays in a bed at the Civic Hospital in Ottawa on Friday June 14, 2013. Todd, whos dream is to become an Olympic rower, was hit by a bus in London, Ont. whie training on his bike. Tony Caldwell/Ottawa Sun/QMI Agency OTTAWA -- In the back of the hospital-bound ambulance, Andrew Todd thought that if he could survive getting hit and dragged by a school bus, he could handle a standard ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215309234/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:38:09 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215309234/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The robotic European cargo ship Albert Einstein was opened Tuesday morning (June 18) at the International Space Station, a day late because of concerns that mold may have grown inside the vehicle, NASA officials said. The ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307949/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:13:02 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307949/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The European Space Agency's fourth and penultimate Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-4) was named for the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. The cargo craft launched on June 5, ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307951/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:13:00 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307951/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Chinese tourists look up at the Chinese national flag as it flies at half-mast on Beijing's Tiananmen Square October 17, 2012. (REUTERS/David Gray) WASHINGTON - An annual U.S. State Department report on Wednesday cited Russia and China among the world's worst offenders in fighting forced labor and sex trafficking, which could lead to U.S. sanctions. The U.S. designation drops Russia ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306801/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:55:32 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306801/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) addresses the crowd during a Tea Party rally to "Audit the IRS" in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Gary ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306800/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:55:32 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306800/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A group shot of teacher Ryan Forsyth, his students and two chaperones on their New Trail final exam in the wilderness near Mississagi River. Back row: Trevor Schuurman, Ryan Forsyth, Courtney Morningstar, Andrew Barager, Robert Lagace and Andrew Labbee. Front: Shayna Gionette, Lindsay Rietze, Jenna Nyman, Angela Benedict, Chance Counsell and Brett Vachon. Photo supplied ELLIOT LAKE, ONT. - A ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307315/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:55:31 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307315/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A number of recent studies on neurobiology and trauma have led to a fundamental shift in the way a growing number of experts view rape ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306983/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:40:40 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306983/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Human population growth is creating a grim outlook for mammals and birds and could increase numbers of threatened species by 2050, U.S. researchers say. Growth in human population will inevitably crowd out mammals and birds and nations experiencing average growth can expect at least 3.3 percent more threatened species in the next decade, and an increase of 10.8 percent species threatened with ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308048/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:38:32 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215308048/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Bioethicist Speaks on Importance of One of Us CampaignBy Elisabetta PittinoROME, June 04, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Elisabetta Pittino of the "One of Us" Campaign interviewed Professor Justo Aznar Lucea, Doctor in Medicine from the University of Navarra and Director of the Life Sciences Institute at the Catholic University of Valencia, to learn about the scientific basis of the "One of ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307946/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:36:30 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307946/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An Africa-wide forum for parliamentarians which aims to give science, technology and innovation a more central role in the policy-making process was launched this ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307186/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:34:39 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307186/scat/a9927dde6777aafc OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich., - The latest search for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa ended on Wednesday in a field near Detroit, where federal agents had dug with heavy equipment and shovels for three days in the hope of answering the decades old question, "Whatever happened to Jimmy Hoffa?" Since Monday, 40 agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Michigan ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307947/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:32:07 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307947/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Quebec mayor never showed me any cash: Mulcair MONTREAL – Canada’s leaderless second-largest city will try a second time to appoint an interim mayor who can stay out of trouble until the fall elections. City councillors will hold a secret vote Tuesday to replace Michael Applebaum, who was arrested on 14 corruption-related charges before resigning this week. Several interim ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307948/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:32:05 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215307948/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The schools are not built on science, technology, engineering and math courses, said Aimee Kennedy, chief academic officer of Metro Early College High School in Ohio. "If that's all it took to be considered a STEM school, any school in the country could do it," Kennedy said Wednesday during a panel discussion at the 2013 U.S. ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306580/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:07:20 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306580/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A new study from Sweden’s Uppsala University has scientifically confirmed what we've already known for hundreds of years: applause is contagious. For entertainers and performers, clapping is seen as a sign of appreciation, as a way for audiences to thank them for a job well done and let them know their work is appreciated. While this is understood by all, it's accepted that some ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306589/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:02:35 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306589/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This space wallpaper is a scaled-down version of a full-circle view, which combined nearly 900 images taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. The view is centered toward the south. It shows Curiosity at the "Rocknest" site where the rover scooped up samples of windblown dust and sand. Curiosity used three cameras to take the component images on several different days between Oct. 5 ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306591/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:41:00 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306591/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); Made in Space's prototype 3D printer, which is bound for the International Space Station in 2014, has passed a series of microgravity flight tests, company officials say. Image released June 19, ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306590/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:40:59 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306590/scat/a9927dde6777aafc AN ALARM lets off a shrill beep as a dosimeter on the bus hits 1500 microsieverts of radiation. "Do not open the windows," an official warns. We are inside ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306573/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:39:17 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306573/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WAM ABU DHABI, June 19th, 2013 (WAM) -- Khalifa University has announced that two of its students were recently awarded first place in the Applied Sciences category at the Think Science Competition, organised by the Emirates Foundation for Youth Development. Yousif Al Hammadi and Nasser Al-Rayhi, who are computer engineering students at Khalifa University, won for their project entitled ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306592/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:23:21 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306592/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau arrives for Question Period in the House of Commons at Parliament Hill in Ottawa June 17, 2013. Andre Forget/QMI ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306593/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:20:32 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215306593/scat/a9927dde6777aafc from the Center for American Progress "Star Trek" would have us believe that space is the final frontier, but with apologies to the armies of Trekkies, their oracle might be a tad off base. Though we know little about outer space, we still have plenty of frontiers to explore here on our home planet. And they're losing the race of discovery. Hollywood giant James Cameron, director ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215304374/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:40:58 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215304374/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WASHINGTON, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – A draft Republican-backed bill released Wednesday that would authorize NASA programs for the next two years backs a $500 million project to develop crew transportation systems to end US reliance on Russian rockets for getting astronauts into space even as it blocks a less costly project to capture, redirect and explore an asteroid. The draft NASA ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215304561/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:38:44 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215304561/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Healthy Brains for Children wants to install a pregnancy test dispenser in the bathroom of a bar in Thunder Bay, Ont. It would be the first such dispenser installed in a Canadian pub. Healthy Brains for Children is based in the U.S., but has a chapter in Thunder Bay. Its goal is to prevent prenatal exposure to alcohol. The local chapter has purchased a dispenser and is talking to officials at ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215304459/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:37:23 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215304459/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Americans love their pets--and a new poll shows just how much we dote on our critters, while revealing some curious attitudes toward animals (and ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215305196/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:34:35 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215305196/scat/a9927dde6777aafc By Stephanie Simon (Reuters) - Students at all Boston public high schools may soon be able to obtain free condoms at the front office - as long as they sit through a few minutes of counseling about safe sex - under a policy due to be voted on Wednesday by the school board. Condoms are already available in 19 high schools with on-site health centers. The policy, up for a vote by the Boston ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215304357/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:33:07 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215304357/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The biggest social network, might have reached 1 billion users in no time and the number of advertisers is now catching up. Last Tuesday the company announced it now serves 1 million active advertisers. The Facebook director of small business, Dan Levy, said that the vast majority of advertisers on the platform are actually small businesses. He announced the milestone in the New York’s ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215305125/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:32:23 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215305125/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A glass-enclosed area in downtown Falkoping, Sweden, giving alcoholics and drug users a place to socialize, was proposed and then tabled by local politicians. The proposal by two members of the Moderate Party called for a space akin to a bus shelter in the central square of the village of 13,000 where addicts could spend time with each other, not feel isolated from society and lessen their ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215304697/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:19:58 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215304697/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tough to account for $3.1B in anti-terror spending, auditor says OTTAWA - NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair began Parliament's summer break by boasting about blocking a Conservative effort to strip Canadian citizenship from convicted terrorists. "We got the end of an odious bill in immigration that would've deprived Canadians of their citizenship illegally that would've had to be ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215305222/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:12:24 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215305222/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Parliament Hill. (Chris Roussakis/QMI Agency) OTTAWA - MPs fled to their ridings Wednesday, leaving a stench richer than the smoke wafting from the annual pork barbecue along the pedestrian mall a short walk from Parliament Hill. One of the ugliest sittings is over - an odious spectacle that won't be remembered for elevating decorum or legislation, but rather for criminal investigations, ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215305223/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:12:24 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215305223/scat/a9927dde6777aafc PARIS - A startup Swiss spaceflight company is planning to upgrade its proposed private satellite launch system into a manned suborbital space shuttle for science missions, the company announced Monday (June 17). The ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303986/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:47:41 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303986/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); This simulated view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the expected positions of Saturn and Earth on July 19, 2013, around the time Cassini will take Earth's picture. Cassini will be about 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away from Earth at the time. That distance is nearly 10 times the distance from the sun to ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303985/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:47:41 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303985/scat/a9927dde6777aafc – the second and final album he recorded with the jazzy hip-hop trio Digable Planets – he was pleasantly surprised. "I was flattered," says the MC, who used to go by Butterfly but is better known today as Palaceer Lazaro, the enigmatic leader of Seattle's Shabazz Palaces. "That album is like a time capsule – it's an artifact from an epoch of time, you ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303979/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:46:42 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303979/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Nasa's Cassini spacecraft will take an image of Earth from 1.44bn kilometres away. From there, our planet will look like the expected images of alien earths around other ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303980/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:39:58 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303980/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Perhaps it is no coincidence that the animals we think of as being the most stupid - pigs, chickens, sheep - are also the ones we don't always treat too well. However, humans might be the ones who have to rethink the definitions of "bird-brain" and "pig ignorance".According to a new report, chickens appear to be much more intelligent than previously thought, with better ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303981/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:39:57 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303981/scat/a9927dde6777aafc /enpproperty--> More than 60 million students and teachers at China's 80,000 middle schools will experience a special class delivered by China's first teacher in space from more than 300 kilometers above Earth's surface. Female astronaut Wang Yaping will carry out fundamental physics experiments onboard the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module at around 10 am on Thursday, the ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303982/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:37:10 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303982/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is now flying near Saturn, is turning its cameras back toward Earth today so it can grab a photo of its home planet from hundreds of millions of miles away. Scientists expect Earth to appear as a small blue dot between the rings of Saturn in the image, NASA said. The photo is being taken as part of a series of images Cassini is shooting of the Saturn ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303983/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:37:05 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303983/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In 2011, I was privileged to receive private sponsorship to research a book on how countries across the world educate their most able children. This spawned an interest in what the UK provided for its most able students, a subject faced head-on by the recent Ofsted report with its damning critique of the current state of the ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303969/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:27:13 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303969/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CHICAGO (CBS) – The Museum of Science and Industry is celebrating its 80th anniversary today. WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports MSI President and CEO David Mosena wore a set of high-tech Google Glass specs as he opened the "80 at 80" exhibit - featuring 80 artifacts from the museum's collection. "Most of the artifacts have rarely, if ever, been ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302970/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:15:39 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302970/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Giblin and his student J. Tate Deskins have produced the most efficient preheating model yet by finding a way to couple the inflaton to the electromagnetic field. This dumps energy directly into ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303984/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:12:45 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303984/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The US government has "high confidence" that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons (CW). In an apparent policy shift, it says it will now provide military support to Syrian rebels. The decision follows the finding of a breakdown product of the nerve gas sarin in urine samples from ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303324/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:12:44 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303324/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:52pm EDT * First of two missions to launch in 2016 * First direct search for life since NASA's 1970s Viking probes * Russia to provide launchers, landing system By Irene Klotz PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency signed final contracts with Thales Alenia Space Italy for work on a pair of missions to assess if the planet Mars has or ever had life, officials ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303230/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:52:55 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303230/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Swimming Science Research Review Swimming World correspondentSANTA CLARA, California, June 19. PLYOMETRICS start with children doing hopscotch with their friends on the playground. (Do kids still have recess?) However, this seemingly innocuous form of exercise requires specific instruction and progression for safe utilization. Allan Phillips discussed plyometrics more than a year ago ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302692/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:40:12 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302692/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This narrow-angle color image of the Earth s a part of the first ever "portrait" of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system from a distance of more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic. Image released Feb. 14, ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302703/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:39:37 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302703/scat/a9927dde6777aafc new study projecting the damage to Africa and Asia in particular. ';The scientists tell us that if the world warms by (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) - warming which may be reached in 20 to 30 years - that will cause widespread food shortages, unprecedented heat waves, and more intense cyclones,'; World Bank ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301462/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:38:20 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301462/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Image Caption: 'Hoff' Yeti crabs around vents on the East Scotia Ridge in the Southern Ocean photographed by the ROV ISIS. A team led by Oxford University scientists has revealed the history of Yeti crabs for the first time. Credit: CHESSO ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302693/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:38:20 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302693/scat/a9927dde6777aafc circadian rhythm of both urban and rural blackbirds in southern Germany. They found that the city birds had faster and less reliable internal clocks than their country brethren, according to their report ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302694/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:38:19 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302694/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A few years ago, I became increasingly interested in all the academic institutions around the world that are working on new theories of reality - in particular quantum mechanics, which says nothing is for certain, everything is a matter of possibilities. I began to visit them ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302695/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:31:30 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302695/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Accra, June 19, GNA - The State of Israel has marked its National Science Day with lectures by professors in the most unlikely ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301937/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:31:09 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301937/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Expectations are growing for our top athletes and cutting-edge sports technology is helping them achieve their goals. Science reporter Jamie Morton tours an Auckland facility taking our high-flyers from the lab to the podium. Marathon runner Scott Winton (right) gets his aerobic fitness tested by Andrew Kilding at the institute. Photo / Greg BowkerThe young cyclist pumps her legs upon the pedals ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303206/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:30:13 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215303206/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) - Fragments of a Russian cargo spacecraft that undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) last week splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, mission control said. The Progress M-19M, which arrived at the ISS on April 26 with over 2.5 tons of cargo - including food, water and oxygen for the crew - undocked on Tuesday for a weeklong flight to study the ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301894/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:23:09 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301894/scat/a9927dde6777aafc How do you think Justin Trudeau has handled the speaking fees controversy? He saved his credibility by offering to return the cash Poorly. He should have apologized without reservation I'm not sure I don't understand what the big deal is ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301629/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:21:43 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301629/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (CARMINE MARINELLI/QMI Agency) LONDON, Ont. – Huron County women who've discovered they're missing underwear should call police. Huron County OPP have arrested a man accused of a rash of women's underwear thefts in the region that have taken place over the last 12 years. And police say there could be more. The first break-in and underwear theft in this case was reported in ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301628/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:21:43 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301628/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A newly discovered crack in the Earth's crust could pull North America and Europe together and cause the Atlantic Ocean to vanish in about 220 million years, scientists ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302679/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:18:49 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302679/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The battle to find a cure for every cancer is evolving " IT WAS the ultimate selfless act. Knowing he had just months to live, and that any knowledge gleaned would be too late to help him, the man known as Patient Two underwent two last painful biopsies. In doing so, he is believed to be the first person to have his cancer's evolution traced from its first appearance to its last, lethal ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302699/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:04:27 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302699/scat/a9927dde6777aafc live for over 30 years , and if that wasn't impressive enough, they don't get cancer. Now we have a clue why, which could lead to treatments for a variety of human ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301801/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:04:27 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301801/scat/a9927dde6777aafc shells of some marine snails in the Southern Ocean have already begun to dissolve . But now there is evidence that some creatures are under threat just when they need it least - as they are trying to form their protective ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302698/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:04:27 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302698/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Image: Reuters/Rick Wilking) These burned-out cars bear witness to the deadly power of a wildfire burning out of control in the Black Forest area of Colorado, one of the ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302488/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:04:26 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302488/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Giant honeybees also perform Mexican waves, but theirs have nothing to do with sport. They are a message to predators, the message in question being, "get lost". Now it turns out the waves might also rock the bees' nest, sending a warning message to all the bees ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302697/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:04:26 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215302697/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 2013 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity how gaming can be applied to many areas: from education, to PHD's internal office structure, and the treatment of anxiety and depression without resorting to ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215299179/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:18:40 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215299179/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This June 17, 2013 photo released courtesy of Lauren Sandler shows, from left, Justin Lane, Lauren Sandler and Dahlia Lane at their home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Sandler delves into the myths and misconceptions about singletons in a new book, One and Only, out this month from Simon & Schuster. Sandler says the choice of having one child is often demonized and the pull to have more ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301089/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:08:29 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301089/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) An Ohio daycare operator is facing charges of child endangerment after allegedly feeding children in her care pancakes spiked with medications that cause drowsiness. Tammy Eppley, 37, is accused of crushing up Benadryl and melatonin and mixing it into the food of the six children she looks after at her home daycare, Caterpillar ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:08:27 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Cleveland women held captive 'like they were POWs' CLEVELAND - Prosecutors want to bring additional charges as soon as possible against a former Cleveland school-bus driver accused of holding three women captive in his home and torturing them for a decade, authorities said on Wednesday. Ariel Castro, 52, has pleaded not guilty to more than 300 charges against him including rape and ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298971/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:08:26 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298971/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NSA leaker says he will fight extradition One measure of our culture’s disdain for whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden can be culled from the pages of a thesaurus. Beyond "source" and "leaker," few neutral antonyms exist to describe people who divulge alleged wrongdoing by the government or other organizations to the press, while negative synonyms abound - spy, ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298974/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:08:26 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298974/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Shutterstock) MONTREAL - Two woman guards at a sprawling north-end Montreal jail were caught in romantic relationships with inmates, and one quit rather than break up with her bad-boy beau. Earlier this month, a guard at Bordeaux jail was caught in a parking lot, kissing a man who had just been released, QMI Agency has learned. A colleague reported the woman to a supervisor and the guard was ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215299933/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:08:17 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215299933/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 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.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215299880/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:51:56 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215299880/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Taiwan's national space programme offered Wednesday its satellite images of the damage caused by powerful tsunamis that ravaged Asia at the weekend to affected countries and aid groups for free.The National Space Programme Office (NSPO) normally charges 3,000 euros (4,080 dollars) for each photograph covering an area of 600 square kilometres (240 square miles), the office said.The images ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215299846/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:51:56 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215299846/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Similar "blocking events" have been responsible for many other extreme weather events in the northern hemisphere in recent years - including the European heatwave in 2003, the Russian heatwave and the Indus river flood in Pakistan in 2010, and the 2011 US heatwave. Some climate scientists think the surge of blocking events is linked to the rapid warming in the Arctic. In March, for ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215300053/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:50:51 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215300053/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Last week, US president Barack Obama announced a series of measures that he hopes will finally end the scourge of "patent trolls". Identifying these trolls may not be so easy, ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215299942/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:50:49 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215299942/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Stoners, pill-poppers and drug regulators everywhere: turn your eyes to New Zealand. The country looks set to adopt new laws permitting the limited sale of some designer drugs for recreational purposes. The legislation is the first in the world to regulate new recreational drugs based on scientific evidence of their risk of ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215300214/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:50:49 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215300214/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Bob Rae. (Andre Forget/QMI Agency File Photo) OTTAWA - Former interim Liberal leader Bob Rae announced Wednesday he will resign as a Toronto MP to focus on his legal work in mediation. "It's been a very difficult decision," he told journalists in the House of Commons foyer. "And an emotional one for me." He thanked his riding of Toronto Centre and wished his ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301090/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:42:48 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215301090/scat/a9927dde6777aafc rosea , a yellow-flowered mountain plant used in many countries for stress relief, has recently been found to increase the lifespan of fruit flies by 24 percent on average. Unique to UC Irvine researches is the way in which Rhodiola, commonly known as golden root, increases longevity. Study ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298697/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:14:50 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298697/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Researchers have developed a new algorithm that makes it possible to map the shape and dimensions of a room using just a few microphones and a snap of the fingers. Developed at the cole polytechnique fdrale de Lausanne ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298698/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:14:49 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298698/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NOAA -supported forecast models. Those same models predict a smaller than average hypoxic level in the Chesapeake Bay. A research team comprised of scientists from the University of Michigan, Louisiana State University, and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium used the NOAA-supported models to forecast that this year's Gulf of Mexico hypoxic "dead zone'; will be between ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215297935/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:14:49 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215297935/scat/a9927dde6777aafc science graduates have the chance to pick up a new bursary and take a masters course in aerospace engineering, thanks to a new link-up between professional organisations and leading businesses in the sector.A total of 6m has been provided by government and the UK aerospace industry to recruit talented people who want to build careers in aerospace, but are short of the money they'd need to ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298699/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:08:25 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298699/scat/a9927dde6777aafc BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have given courts the powers to hand down the death penalty in serious pollution cases, state media said, as the government tries to assuage growing public anger at environmental desecration. An increasingly affluent urban population has begun to object to China's policy of growth at all costs, which has fuelled the economy for three decades, with the ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215297873/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:01:54 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215297873/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, backdropped against a blanket of heavy cloud cover in December of 1988, the Russian-built FGB, also called Zarya, nears the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the U.S.-built Node 1, also called Unity (foreground). Inside Endeavour's cabin, the STS-88 crew readies the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) for Zarya capture as they await the carefully ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298701/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:53:15 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298701/scat/a9927dde6777aafc PARIS (Reuters) - French start-up company Ynsect has identified a cheap, nourishing and locally sourced alternative to soybeans as a vital source of protein in animal feed. The clue is in its ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298702/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:52:42 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298702/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Coastal Bend Environmental Science Summer 2013 Free Teachers Workshops. Coastal Bend Environmental ScienceJune 19-20Coastal Bend Environmental ScienceElementary Teacher Workshop- 18 CEUsJune 24-26Register for these workshops at ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215297596/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:36:34 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215297596/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Security agents arrive to secure the United Nations compound following a suicide bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu, June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Omar Faruk MOGADISHU - Islamist militants carried out their first major assault for years on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, dealing a blow to fragile security gains that have allowed a slow return of foreign aid workers and ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298703/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:32:52 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215298703/scat/a9927dde6777aafc REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Files Drug maker Pfizer will pay $4.8 million in compensation to Canadians who tried to commit suicide after being prescribed a drug to treat seizures. The class-action settlement, announced Wednesday by law firm Siskinds, applies to patients who took Neurontin at any time prior to Aug. 5, 2004. Ontario Superior Court approved the settlement, which awards $150,000 for ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215296132/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:47:19 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215296132/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Students attending McDaniel College's Summer Science Academy in the past have had the opportunity to earn college credit, but now completing a one-week course could land them a $40,000 scholarship. The college's Summer Science Academy for high school students and recent graduates started in 2005 as an opportunity to engage students through a forensic science course and attract them to ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215296713/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:35:12 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215296713/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Billboard Calls for Sen. McCain to 'Get Serious' About Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons WASHINGTON - August 19 - Northwest, the official airline of the Republican National Convention, has taken on a new role of censor. Yesterday it asked Clear Channel Communications to remove a Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) anti-nuclear-weapons billboard in the Minneapolis airport ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215295790/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:27:19 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215295790/scat/a9927dde6777aafc JOHANNESBURG -- Space, the final frontier, and one that African nations have largely left unexplored. But with the emergence of space agencies around the continent, some intrepid space-gazers are studying ways to boldly go where few Africans have gone before. Observers looking at Africa today will see a new reality. Satellite dishes monitor hundreds of privately owned satellites above ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215294312/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:00:14 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215294312/scat/a9927dde6777aafc As many as 13 Texas prisoners died from heatstroke since 2007 according to a lawsuit that questions how administrators decided to allocate the much-valued commodity of conditioned air in oppressive Texas ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215294020/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:46:00 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215294020/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A hostage-taking at a 7-11 in downtown Vancouver in November 2012 was motivated by a call for justice after surgery was performed on the wrong leg, B.C. Provincial Court heard Tuesday. (QMI Agency files) VANCOUVER -- A hostage-taking at a downtown Vancouver 7-11 last year, in which a woman was nearly set on fire, was motivated by a call for justice after surgery was performed on the wrong leg, ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215294113/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:37:03 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215294113/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up as he embraced a Sunni Muslim political leader in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing the man and four of his family a day before elections in the ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293939/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:28:42 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293939/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 1 of 2. U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel shake hands at the end of a joint news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin June 19, ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293938/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:28:42 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293938/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CSPI Investigation Reveals Kids' Meals at Restaurants Usually Too High in Calories, and Good Options Hard to Find WASHINGTON - August 4 - Nearly every single possible combination of the children's meals at KFC, Taco Bell, Sonic, Jack in the Box, and Chick-fil-A is too high in calories, according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, which today released the ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215294619/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:18:22 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215294619/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday expressed the wish to speed up her country's space cooperation with Ukraine. Speaking by phone earlier in the day, Rousseff and her Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych discussed bilateral cooperation, especially on the space sector. Brazil and Ukraine are partners in Alcantara Cyclon Space (ACS), a company which is preparing for the launch ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215295317/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:37 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215295317/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The era of a space dominated by the U.S. and Russia is gone. Even when they have preserved their leadership in space exploration, they face a growing competition from other states, primarily from China. That conclusion is stated in a report prepared by Futron research company (USA). For five years Futron has been composing an index of competitive position of various participants of space ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215295318/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:31 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215295318/scat/a9927dde6777aafc British crossover style performer Sarah Brightman announced here Wednesday her intention to become the next paying passenger to the International Space Station (ISS). "I am planning to become a space flight participant," Brightman told a press conference, after receiving the approval from a medical commission for training at Russia's Cosmonaut Training Center in July. Ahead of the ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215295319/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:30 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215295319/scat/a9927dde6777aafc SpaceX's unmanned Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday morning to make the first-ever commercial cargo delivery to the orbiting lab. According to U.S. space agency NASA, Dragon was captured by station crew using Canadarm2 robotic arm and installed to the station's docking port on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony node at 9:03 a.m. EDT (1303 ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215295320/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:29 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215295320/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Space-time is the real gravity, according to physicists. Why? Because of a drawing which looks like a vortex with a grid pattern across it. And the physics behind this drawing? It starts with two objects moving toward each other, which usually means persons on trains. Their motion relative to each other is different from their motion relative to something else. Relative means relativity. Viola. ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215295321/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:02 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215295321/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); This image shows a trio of galaxies often called the Draco group because they are located in the northern constellation of Draco. The galaxy on the left is NGC 5985, the center is the elliptical galaxy NGC 5982, and the bottom right is NGC 5981. Astrophotographer Terry Hancock and former NASA scientist Fred Hermann teamed up to take this photo. The image was released June 17, ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293741/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:49:39 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293741/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of Earth from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19. NASA is inviting the public to help acknowledge the historic interplanetary portrait as it is being taken. Earth will appear as a small, pale blue dot between the rings of Saturn in the image, which will be part of a mosaic, or multi-image portrait, of ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293719/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:48:43 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293719/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Pet owners have known for a long time that each pet has its own, unique personality. It's only in the last 10 years, however, that the study of animal personality has started to gain ground with behavioral ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293720/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:48:27 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293720/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Astronauts on board the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft will teach students through a live video feed system while in orbit at about 10 am on Thursday, announced a spokesperson for China's manned space program on ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293721/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:42:16 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293721/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Cracked: Why Psychiatry Is Doing More Harm Than Good because of the huge gulf between what most people believe about psychiatric diagnoses and medications and what the evidence actually ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215292801/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:42:08 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215292801/scat/a9927dde6777aafc /enpproperty--> Chinese woman astronaut Wang Yaping will carry out fundamental physics experiments on board the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module at around 10 am on Thursday, said a spokesperson for the manned space program. Students across the country will be able to watch the experiments in a live broadcast on China Central Television. Students in classrooms that are not equipped with a TV ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293722/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:40:10 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293722/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Some Christians know they are going to heaven. Other Christians are pretty sure they are going there. Many unbelievers, meanwhile, assume they are going to heaven, or they simply don't believe that heaven is even a real place. Try asking 20 Christians and 20 unbelievers about their hope for the afterlife. You will start to see the science behind the assurance of salvation. In other words, ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293724/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:39:08 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293724/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:31am EDT * Dual track approach helped push up offer price * Largest German private equity deal since 2006 * Seller says deal set to close in August FRANKFURT, June 19 (Reuters) - Buyout firm BC Partners agreed to buy German publisher Springer Science+Business Media for about 3.3 billion euros ($4.4 billion) on Wednesday, the largest private-equity acquisition in Germany for ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215294121/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:31:52 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215294121/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as a product of human weakness is being sold on eBay for a starting price of $3 million. The letter, handwritten in 1954, a year before Einstein's death, was addressed to philosopher Eric Gutkind. In it, Einstein discussed his views on religion, including calling "the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293726/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:39 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293726/scat/a9927dde6777aafc India is planning to launch 58 space missions, including sending spacecraft to Moon and Mars, an exclusive satellite to keep a round-the-clock watch on the country and deploy hundreds of transponders in the next five years, reported Press Trust of India on Sunday. The India Space Research Organization also aims to deploy its own version of the Global Positioning System by putting into orbit a ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293727/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:38 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293727/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday it has decided to postpone an experiment to release satellites from the International Space Station (ISS) due to approaching space debris. The experiment planned for the early hours of Friday is scheduled to launch five small satellites provided by the Fukuoka Institute of Technology and Tohoku University. The looming space debris may require ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293728/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:35 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293728/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 photo, Dr. Phillip Epstein, left, and Steve Landers of the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago talk about the new iPad app being released Tuesday, Sept. 25 that allows users to see Albert Einstein's brain as if they were looking through a microscope. ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293729/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:33 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293729/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Japan's southwestern Fukuoka Prefecture is planning to lease roof space at schools for solar panels with an aim to widely develop solar power generation, local press reported Tuesday. The new plan came after a new feed-in-tariff scheme for renewable energy started in the country this summer and was the first of its kind pushed by a local government in southwestern Japan. According to the ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293730/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:32 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293730/scat/a9927dde6777aafc China and the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have launched a plan that will see them cooperate in fields of science and technology. More than 300 entrepreneurs and scholars from China and ASEAN countries attended a launch ceremony on Saturday in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on the sidelines of the ninth China-ASEAN ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293731/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:31 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293731/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A private capsule is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on a cargo mission on Oct. 7, U.S. space agency NASA announced Thursday. The SpaceX's robotic Dragon spacecraft is set to blast off atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:34 p.m. EDT on Oct. 7 (0034 Oct. 8 GMT). This will be the first of 12 contracted flights ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293732/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:28 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293732/scat/a9927dde6777aafc HOUSTON, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of space fans in the U.S. city of Houston cheered space shuttle Endeavor Wednesday as the United States' last retired shuttle circled overhead and landed in the city. Riding piggyback on a modified Boeing 747, Endeavor landed Wednesday morning in Houston's Ellington Field, after a five-hour flight from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. An ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293733/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:27 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293733/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This photo provided by NASA shows space shuttle Endeavour atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293734/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:23 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293734/scat/a9927dde6777aafc They say great minds think alike -- but that's the last thing Bai Chunli wants. As president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he says what the country's scientific community needs most is diversity, not uniformity. "When we say someone is trying to do things in an unorthodox way, it's usually derogatory," the 58-year-old chemist said. "But in terms of scientific ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293736/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:22 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293736/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Russian Soyuz capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe on Monday, delivering a trio of astronauts from a four-month stint on the International Space Station. The capsule, carrying US astronaut Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, parachuted through a blue sky and touched down in a cloud of dust as its soft landing engines ignited at 8.53 local time (2.53 GMT). ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293735/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:22 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293735/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WELLINGTON, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- A New Zealand government-led science delegation will head to the United States on Sunday to promote scientific collaboration between the two countries. Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce will lead the delegation to attend the New Zealand-United States Joint Commission on Science and Technology Cooperation which aims to promote collaboration in policy ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293737/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:19 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293737/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Astronauts on the International Space Station bade farewell to a Japanese cargo ship today (Sept. 12), ending Japan's latest delivery flight to the orbiting lab. Japan's unmanned H-2 Transfer Vehicle 3 (HTV-3) left the space station at 11:50 a.m. EDT (1350 GMT) after station astronauts used a robotic arm to detach the spacecraft from its docking port and set it free. The orbiting ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293738/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:18 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293738/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Russia must develop clear goals for its space program in order to pull its space industry out of the currently unhealthy state, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday. "Russia must formulate what it wants from space," Rogozin told the state-run Moscow radio, stressing a string of recent accidents with rocket launches were due to lack of clear ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293739/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:16 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215293739/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Chris Froome remained as tranquil as the vibe on the Cte d'Azur, where he is making his final preparations in readiness for next week's 100th edition of ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291894/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:36:00 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291894/scat/a9927dde6777aafc It may have an unlovely title, but Tim Parks promises this rigorous book will offer you a liberating way of thinking about every family, including your ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291755/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:35:48 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291755/scat/a9927dde6777aafc U.S. President Barack Obama waves next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside the Chancellery in Berlin, June 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Thomas Peter) BERLIN – U.S. President Barack Obama will use a speech on Wednesday to revive proposals for a world without nuclear arms by targeting cuts in deployed nuclear weapons of up to a third below levels achieved in a 2010 treaty with Russia, a senior ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291571/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:26:25 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291571/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A former Cleveland school-bus driver accused of holding three women captive in his home and torturing them for a decade is scheduled to appear in court for a pre-trial hearing on ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291954/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:17:06 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291954/scat/a9927dde6777aafc BOSTON (Reuters) - Attorneys for accused mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger will seek on Wednesday to paint star witness John "The Executioner" Martorano as a heartless killer whose testimony cannot be trusted in the trial of one of Boston's most feared ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291956/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:17:06 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291956/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Cows have been overtaken by fish. For the first time in modern history, the world has been producing more farmed fish than farmed beef. But instead of being a boon for the environment, many fish farms are damaging it because of the types of fish they ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291386/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:04:06 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291386/scat/a9927dde6777aafc IF YOU'RE flying, it's normally best to travel light, but one prehistoric flying reptile didn't get the memo. It took to the skies with a cargo of gravel in its ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291387/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:04:05 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215291387/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The correct use of formal scientific names of organisms is key to accurate communication, but despite the simplicity of the system, is rarely done ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215290445/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:26:23 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215290445/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin doesn't seem terribly concerned with the question of whether infants being aborted can feel pain.In an interview this morning, after Melvin said theevidence that the unborn feel pain before the third trimester is "limited," Representative Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) explained to Melvin that the bill dealt with pregnancies at the 20th week or later, and ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215289598/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:29:27 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215289598/scat/a9927dde6777aafc PETA recently released a video game where you commit violence against research scientists. Arguably the best response would be to create video games that promote and educate about ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215289599/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:21:54 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215289599/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Despite being a member of staff at one of Europe's largest universities, I don't have access to a journal in which my own work is published. Photograph: ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215289600/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:21:51 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215289600/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Astronomers using the Herschel Space Observatory discovered that a suspected ring at the center of our galaxy is warped for reasons they cannot explain. The Herschel was retired on Monday. (NASA/Courtesy) Europe's deep-space Herschel telescope was decommissioned Monday and will be free to float around the Sun for eternity. Herschel, the largest and most powerful infrared telescope, ended ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215288970/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:21:30 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215288970/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Walter Lee Williams, a former university professor seen here in a 2011 handout photo released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has become the 500th person to be named to the Ten Most Wanted list, according to an FBI statement. (REUTERS/FBI/Handout via Reuters) CANCUN – Mexican authorities on Tuesday arrested a former U.S. university professor, who recently was added to the ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215288790/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:11:42 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215288790/scat/a9927dde6777aafc London, June 18 : The speculations about the 1968 air crash of MiG-15 which killed the 'first man in space' Yuri Gagarin, have taken a fresh turn when fellow cosmonaut revealed details about the ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215288665/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:22:30 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215288665/scat/a9927dde6777aafc China's first teacher in space Wang Yaping is in orbit and due to deliver a lecture to students via a video feed on Thursday, China Central Television ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215288666/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:15:06 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215288666/scat/a9927dde6777aafc /enpproperty--> China's first teacher in space Wang Yaping is in orbit and due to deliver a lecture to students via a video feed on Thursday, China Central Television reported. The lesson, which will be broadcast by CCTV, will last from 10:04 am to 10:55 am. Wang, the country's second female astronaut, will teach primary and middle school students about her zero-gravity ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215287310/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:11:52 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215287310/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Like the US' GPS (Global Positioning System) that gives the exact location of moving aircraft, ships, vehicles and even people carrying smart phones, India will soon have its own satellite-based navigation system.India's equivalent of the GPS will be called the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System or IRNSS, a cluster of seven satellites being developed by the Indian Space ... http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215287423/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:01:13 -0400 http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/215287423/scat/a9927dde6777aafc