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Happiness: Contagious as the Flu (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - In a good mood? Your neighbor, her friends and even her friends' friends should thank you - you're likely infecting them with your cheer. Happiness spreads through social networks about as easily as the flu, according to a new study.
 
NASA delays Mars mission to 2011 (AP)

This NASA artist's concept shows the Mars Science Laboratory, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Technical glitches have forced US space agency NASA to delay the launch of a landmark mission to Mars, which was due to lift off in the autumn of next year, officials said Thursday.(AFP/NASA)AP - NASA is delaying a mission to Mars that already had been over budget and will get even more costly.


 
NASA sets May date for Hubble telescope repairs (AP)

This image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and released Thursday Nov. 20, 2008 showcases the brilliant core of NGC 1569 one of the most active star making galaxies in our local neighborhood. The entire core is 5,000 light-years wide. According to scientists a new analysis of NGC 1569 shows that it is one and a half times farther from Earth than astronomers previously thought. The extra distance places the galaxy in the middle of a group of about 10 galaxies centered on the spiral galaxy IC 342. Gravitational interactions among the group's galaxies may be compressing gas in NGC 1569 and igniting the star-birthing frenzy. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - NASA has set a May date for its space shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope for a final time.


 
Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Predicted for 2009 (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - The annual Leonid meteor shower put on some dramatic sky shows in 1999 and 2001, but in recent years the event has been comparatively mundane.
 
Ancient Flying Reptile Bigger Than a Car (LiveScience.com)

A visitor looks at a reconstructed biological model of a 'Quetzalcoatlus northropi' at the 'Pterosaurs; Rulers of the Skies in the Age of Dinosaurs' exhibition at The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, in this June 28, 2008 file photo.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)LiveScience.com - A fossil of a toothless flying pterosaur, with a body bigger than some family cars, represents the largest of these extinct reptiles ever to be found and has forced the creation of a new genus, scientists announced today.


 
Iran's Ahmadinejad worried over oil price fall (AFP)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran on December 1, 2008. Ahmadinejad has for the first time admitted that the fall in world oil prices will affect the economic projects of his government, local media reported.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)AFP - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has for the first time admitted that the fall in world oil prices will affect the economic projects of his government, local media reported on Thursday.


 
"Rogue" stem cell clinics exploit hope: report (Reuters)

A laboratory researcher in a file photo. (File/Reuters)Reuters - Rogue clinics around the world may be exploiting hope and ignorance by offering unproven stem cell therapies, a group of stem cell experts said in a report released on Wednesday.


 
The Nation's Weather (AP)

The Weather Underground Forecast for Thursday, Dec. 3, 2008, shows a strong cold front will push through the Eastern U.S., bringing widespread rain and thunderstorms along with much cooler temperatures. Meanwhile, snow showers are expected in the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes and Central Rockies.(AP Photo/Weather Underground)AP - A cold front packing showers stretched from New England to the Gulf of Mexico early Thursday, while the Rockies were snowy and much of the rest of the West woke to a clear day.


 
Conservation group sues for walrus protection (AP)

This image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a Pacific walrus tagged with a satellite radio transmitter, shot onto the animal by USGS scientists using a crossbow in this March, 2006 file photo taken on the Bering Sea spring sea ice. The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on Wednesday Dec. 3, 2008 for failing to act on a petition seeking protection for walrus under the Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Wildlife Service has nearly completed a comprehensive population count of walrus coordinated with Russian counterparts. The numbers are anticipated no later than January and possibly by the end of the year, he said. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Steven Kazlowski, FILE)AP - A conservation group is going to court to force the federal government to consider adding the Pacific walrus to the list of threatened species.


 
Study illuminates star explosion from 16th century (AP)

This composite image provided by NASA Wednesday Dec. 3, 2008 of the Tycho supernova remnant combines infrared and X-ray observations obtained with NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space observatories, respectively, and the Calar Alto observatory, in Spain. The image shows the remnant of a supernova that was observed in 1572 by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. The explosion has left a blazing hot cloud of expanding debris (green and yellow). The location of the blast's outer shock wave can be seen as a blue sphere of ultra-energetic electrons. Newly synthesized dust in the ejected material and heated pre-existing dust from the area around the supernova radiate at infrared wavelengths of 24 microns (red). Foreground and background stars in the image are white. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - More than 400 years after Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe challenged established wisdom about the heavens by analyzing a strange new light in the sky, scientists say they've finally nailed down just what he saw.


 
LA delays decision on scrapping elephant exhibit (AP)

Billy, a 21-year-old Asian elephant, drinks water in his enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008, in Los Angeles. The future of the elephant habitat at the Los Angeles Zoo could be determined Wednesday, Dec. 3. 2008, when the City Council meets. (AP Photo/Paula Frier)AP - Kids can keep visiting Billy the elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo — for now.


 


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