Provides the latest RSS feeds for Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Buffalo Breeze.com http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/cat/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 20:31:13 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:31:13 -0400 30 Excitement has been growing in recent months over the approach of Comet ISON. Like other comets, this chunk of rock and ice is following a long, elliptical orbit around the Sun, and like other comets, when it nears the Sun later this year, its trailing stream of dust and vapor will catch the sunlight and become a long, luminous, tail. Many astronomers are predicting that when this celestial ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214606429/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 18:15:14 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214606429/scat/a9927dde6777aafc At 5:24 am EDT on May 17, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214599366/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 05:20:02 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214599366/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics, have successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how humans will explore and work on near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and eventually the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. From April 13 to 15, field experiments were conducted at the ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214599368/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 05:20:02 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214599368/scat/a9927dde6777aafc European Space Agency astronaut more than two years ago and has been waiting for a space mission since then.It was feared the former army helicopter pilot might be given a short-duration mission because the UK only makes modest contributions to Esa's manned space programme. Major contributors such as France, Germany and Italy were expected to have priority.However, ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607044/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:07 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607044/scat/a9927dde6777aafc , a maths fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. "In my new show I'm going to be showing my all-time favourite. It's pretty spectacular. You may have your own favourite spreadsheet, I don't ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607425/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:06 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607425/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The time we have at our disposal each day is elastic, Proust claimed. It sounds an odd remark. Surely we have precisely 24 hours, no more and no less. Even the occasional leap second - introduced to keep calendars accurate - hardly changes the fixed time we have every day on ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607029/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:05 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607029/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Cognitive scientist and philosopher Daniel Dennett is one of America's foremost thinkers. In this extract from his new book, he reveals some of the lessons life has taught ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607030/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:04 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607030/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Angelina Jolie who has revealed she had decided to have a preventive double mastectomy after testing for the ''faulty'' gene BRCA1. Photograph: Dan ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607035/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:01 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607035/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Arctic frontier town of Salekhard, in Siberia. I was there to film an expedition to recover a new mammoth specimen with a crew from the BBC. We were keen to head north into the tundra of the Yamal peninsula, where we'd heard that new mammoth carcasses had been discovered. After sharing a large Mi-8 helicopter with a load of Siberian hunters, we landed at a reindeer herders' camp, ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607426/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:00 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607426/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, left, speaks in front of his brother Coun. Doug Ford at City Hall in Toronto on February 25, 2013. (DAVE ABEL/QMI ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214606959/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:11:54 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214606959/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A 20-year-old spectator is dead after a stunt went wrong at a show and shine event in Edmonton. (DAVID BLOOM/QMI Agency) ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607104/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:11:54 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214607104/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers on May 17, 2013. (REUTERS/Michelle ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214606449/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 18:18:02 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214606449/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Play video OTTAWA - Tory MPs may not be in the mood for fireworks and barbecues over the Victoria Day weekend, amid a Senate expense claim scandal that forced Senators Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin to leave the party caucus. "I'm getting calls from loyal Conservatives furious over the Senate," one MP told QMI Agency on condition of anonymity. "And I'm mad with rage, ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214606555/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 18:18:00 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214606555/scat/a9927dde6777aafc ABU DHABI // The wait for the start of Ramadan is always an anxious one. After weeks of guesses and rumours about what the date will be, astronomers haul their telescopes to the highest point in their emirate and watch for the new crescent moon to usher in the Holy Month. But last week the French Muslim Council voted to do away with that, basing the start of Ramadan on astronomical calculations ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214606007/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 17:38:46 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214606007/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Large Hadron Collider was built in the pursuit of pure science, but research into quantum mechanics might soon yield enormous benefits for computing. Photograph: Rex ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214606337/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 17:30:51 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214606337/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A male elephant seal opens wide at sea. Scientists have found the H1N1 virus strain in northern elephant seals off the coast of California, the first such detection in marine ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214605866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 16:38:13 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214605866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc News from the biggest beat in the cosmos, going out 13.7 billion light-years and taking in everything from astronomy to zoology. Join the adventure ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214605334/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 16:38:13 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214605334/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Members of the military police and security gather at the scene of an explosion in front of the Greek embassy, right, in Tripoli on May 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny) OTTAWA - Greek foreign affairs officials report no injuries following a small explosion Saturday outside the Embassy of Greece in Libya's capital Tripoli. Officials say a "low power explosive device" was placed ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214605318/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 16:26:49 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214605318/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) One fisherman has been found dead and the search is on for two others after their boat hit a sandbar off the coast of New Brunswick Saturday. The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax said it received a distress call from the men at around 5:30 a.m. A spokesman said the dead man was found near the sandbar and the Canadian Coast Guard is looking for the other two men who were ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214605451/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 16:26:46 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214605451/scat/a9927dde6777aafc After a relatively calm few weeks, North Korea fired three short-range missiles Saturday, a South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman said. NPR's Louisa Lim reports that North Korea fired the missiles in defiance of international sanctions. She filed this report for our Newscast ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214605275/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 15:27:44 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214605275/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) NEWARK, N.J. - A US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International Airport early on Saturday after the plane’s landing gear failed to deploy, but no one was injured, airline and government officials said. Piedmont Airlines flight 4560, operating for US Airways from Philadelphia with 34 passengers and three crew members, landed safely at 1 ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214604207/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 14:31:21 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214604207/scat/a9927dde6777aafc AUSTIN, Texas - The Powerball jackpot being drawn on Saturday night could be even higher than the record $600 million being advertised, pushing it near or above the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, a Texas Lottery official said on Saturday. "Oftentimes, the advertised amount is lower than what the actual jackpot ends up being," said Kelly Cripe, a spokeswoman for the Texas ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214603581/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 13:31:58 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214603581/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Da Mao, one of the Toronto Zoo's two new giant pandas, on display for the first time on May 16, 2013. (DAVE ABEL/QMI Agency) TORONTO - The pandas make their public debut at the Toronto Zoo Saturday. Join the Toronto Sun's Shawn Jeffords with live ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214603749/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 13:31:52 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214603749/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA said in a statement , "the impact site was glowing like a 4th magnitude star." It was nearly ten times as bright as any other previously recorded impact. Unlike our safely cocooned planet, the moon has no atmosphere to protect it, and meteoroids do not burn up as they approach the surface. Over the past eight years, NASA scientists have observed more than 300 impacts, some of ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214603483/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 12:22:38 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214603483/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Plane catches rire upon landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. Russia's deplorable air safety record just got worse. Moscow's Vnukovo Airport was temporarily closed on Saturday morning after a plane carrying about 140 people from the southern Russian city of Stavropol caught fire after landing, a law enforcement source told the Russian news site RIA Novosti. No one was reported ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214602344/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 11:30:14 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214602344/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fire ants are an invasive species in the warmer areas of the US, and we here at Weird Science are told by people who have experienced the invasion personally that their fearsome reputation is well deserved. So, normally, you'd expect said people to be happy to hear that the fire ants population seems to be going down. Unfortunately, it's going down because an even more deranged ant is ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214602435/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 11:18:49 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214602435/scat/a9927dde6777aafc January 1981 issue of National Geographic , describes how, in the week running up to the disaster, he and others were drawn into a "strange kind of Russian roulette" with the mountain. While Findley lived to tell the tale, others were not so lucky, and the article includes richly drawn character studies of some of the mountain's ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214601299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 09:24:23 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214601299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Climate Consensus image via Skeptical Science, click image for more data and details. If you're old enough, you remember hearing about missile gaps that reportedly posed danger. Here's another perilous chasm: the Consensus Gap. There ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214601664/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 09:17:30 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214601664/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214600667/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 07:18:42 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214600667/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A whole generation has been born since Canada's first "test tube baby" saw daylight in Vancouver almost 30 years ago.And it's been 20 years since B.C.'s Patricia Baird issued a royal commission report on the murky ethics of creating life in a petri dish.Now almost 10,000 babies are born in Canada each year through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, as the unheard of has ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214600136/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 06:18:49 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214600136/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Once you are registered, New Scientist will send you our weekly newsletter, as well as occasional relevant information via email from New Scientist about our content, services, products, events, offers and competitions. Please read ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214600198/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 06:04:11 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214600198/scat/a9927dde6777aafc two nuclear plants in Fukushima reported no new irregularities after the quake, Kyodo news agency said. Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi prefecture further north also detected no irregularities, operator Tohoku Electric Power Co said. In Miyagi prefecture, where the shaking was the strongest, there were no information on injuries, Kyodo added. The United States Geological Survey recorded the quake ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214599397/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 05:24:14 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214599397/scat/a9927dde6777aafc SEOUL – North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday, South Korea’s Defence Ministry said, but the purpose of the launches was unknown. Launches by the North of short-term missiles are not uncommon, but the ministry would not speculate whether these latest launches were part of a test or training exercise. "North Korea fired short-range guided ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214599394/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 05:17:18 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214599394/scat/a9927dde6777aafc People have a craving for knowledge about the lives of the great composers. Instrumental music is unequalled among the arts in its magnificent, even defiant abstractness. It suggests infinite possibilities, without offering any definitive answers. What could be more tantalising?But Schumann's music excites further curiosity, because it is not only lofty, but personal. Excruciatingly ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214598928/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 04:24:14 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214598928/scat/a9927dde6777aafc From Da Vinci to a stuffed walrus to glass models of underwater worlds, a rich selection of objects is about to go display at the Turner Contemporary, as curator Brian Dillon ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214598929/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 04:24:12 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214598929/scat/a9927dde6777aafc View Photo Reuters/Reuters - People gather outside Marseille's town hall to attend a demonstration to support the passage of the same-sex marriage bill in Marseille, April 23, 2013. REUTERS/Jean-Paul ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214599074/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 04:12:57 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214599074/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 18-year-old Eesha Khare (left), a senior at Lynbrook High School, is one of two runners up at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix. ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214598883/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 04:01:36 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214598883/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson and pilot Mark Stucky celebrating the successful flight of SpaceShip2 under rocket power. (AFP PHOTO / Handout / Mark Greenberg) British billionaire Richard Branson said Monday that rocket-powered space tourism flights by his firm Virgin Galactic would have only a minor impact on climate change. More than 500 people have already reserved seats -- and paid ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214599271/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 03:51:35 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214599271/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on Friday.The explosion on March 17 was the biggest seen since NASA began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago. So far, more than 300 strikes have been recorded."It exploded in a flash ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214598739/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 03:06:00 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214598739/scat/a9927dde6777aafc People can successfully change their moods and try to be happier. Elijah Wood (L) and Robin Williams, cast members in the animated motion picture comedy "Happy Feet Two", attend the premiere of the film at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on November 13, 2011. UPI/Jim ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214597606/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 01:49:05 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214597606/scat/a9927dde6777aafc mental health will face its greatest upset in years on Saturday with the publication of the long-awaited and deeply-controversial US manual for diagnosing mental disorders.Early drafts of the book, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, have divided medical opinion so firmly that authors of previous editions are among the most prominent ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214596972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 01:10:03 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214596972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Source: Reuters An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of a 40kg rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists have said. The explosion on March 17 was the biggest seen since NASA began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago. So far, more than 300 strikes have been recorded. "It exploded in a flash ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214597455/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 01:04:14 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214597455/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Reuters © Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/ Michelle ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214596213/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 00:13:42 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214596213/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A VIA Rail passenger train pulls into the Cobourg station in the file photo. (QMI Agency/JEFF GARD) CHATHAM, ONT. - Ontario's police watchdog agency has been called in after a man was struck and killed by a Via Rail train while police looked for him. The Special Investigations Unit said Friday that Chatham-Kent police were investigating a man who made his way to the rail tracks just after ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214595989/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 22:23:23 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214595989/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Monday, May 6, 2013: Jamie Byron, 23, is charged with human trafficking, assault, living off the avails of prostitution of a person under 18 with the use of violence, intimidation or coercion. He has pleaded not guilty. Laurie Foster-MacLeod/Ottawa Sun OTTAWA - The girl who says Jamie Byron beat her and pimped her out to more than 100 men when she was just 17 ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214595990/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 22:23:22 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214595990/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The first of the Brood II cicadas, which only mature every 17 years, are being spotted in some southern states including Virginia. NBC's Brian Williams ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214594943/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 21:53:31 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214594943/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 1 of 4. Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, 2013. Some 20 to 25 people were injured on Friday in a train accident near Fairfield, Connecticut, a Fairfield Police spokesman said on ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214594791/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 21:30:26 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214594791/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Of course, what we really want, and what this community wants, is to see this entire property preserved. Back in 2007 we led the community effort to preserve the Sherman property, the western half of the Buena Vista Creek Valley. Now a developer, McMillin, is proposing to put 656 condos and apartments on the eastern half, right to the edge of the preserve and through the heart of the ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214594639/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 20:48:33 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214594639/scat/a9927dde6777aafc One man charged in Tim Bosma's murder TORONTO - Toronto Police have confirmed they are reviewing the death of Wayne Millard, father of a man now charged with the kidnapping and murder of an Ancaster man. Homicide squad Staff-Insp. Greg McLane said Friday investigators are continuing to look into Dellen Millard’s Etobicoke connection when it comes to the suicide death of his father ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214593957/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 20:30:25 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214593957/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214594641/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 20:25:45 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214594641/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The founders of troubled Kazakh miner ENRC have been given more time to come up with a better bid, but the City isn't convinced a better offer will be ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214593711/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 19:32:24 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214593711/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Michael Thomas Rafferty LONDON, Ont. - Michael Rafferty has been denied one way to get taxpayers to fund the appeal of his conviction in the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of an eight-year-old girl. So he’s trying another. Sentenced to life last May for the first-degree murder of Victoria ‘Tori’ Stafford in 2009, Rafferty was denied legal aid to hire a lawyer in ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214592882/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 19:21:49 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214592882/scat/a9927dde6777aafc RCMP scouring Senate audits OTTAWA - New Democrats want all records related to Mike Duffy's expenses made public in light of allegations he billed taxpayers while campaigning for Conservative candidates in the 2011 election. And the official Opposition says Duffy is still "mooching off taxpayers" by resigning from the Conservative caucus to sit as an independent rather than doing ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214593071/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 19:21:49 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214593071/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Roman sky on May 2.Every photograph is actually a time exposure--images may be recorded in a fraction of a second or over hours. Shutter speed can be adjusted to do either very long or instantaneous ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214593713/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 19:19:36 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214593713/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA's lunar monitoring program has detected hundreds of meteoroid impacts. The brightest, detected on March 17 in Mare Imbrium, is marked by the red square. Credit: ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214593714/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 19:04:36 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214593714/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Senator Pamela Wallin is seen during a luncheon at the Conference of Defence Associations in Ottawa Feb 21, 2013. Andre Forget/QMI Agency ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214593715/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 18:57:53 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214593715/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. - A mother and her toddler were bound to a basement pole with duct tape during a home invasion on Monday, police say. Police say the home in Sault Ste. Marie was targeted. Two men - at least one armed - broke into the house and ordered a woman, carrying her one-year-old daughter, to the basement. The mom and tot were taped to a pole by one man as the other ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591754/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 18:13:02 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591754/scat/a9927dde6777aafc These two men are wanted for allegedly stealing gifts from a wedding reception in Mississauga on May 4, 2013, Peel Regional Police said. (Handout) ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591946/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 18:13:01 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591946/scat/a9927dde6777aafc International Space Station (ISS), including U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy (pictured), completed a 5.5-hour spacewalk on May 11 to repair a leaky coolant ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214592562/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 18:10:49 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214592562/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Yale Galanter, O.J. Simpson's former defense attorney, reacts during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 17, ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591974/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 18:04:47 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591974/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A combined view of the coronal mass ejection, or CME, that occurred on May 17. The center yellow image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and shows the sun as seen in UV light. The SDO image is superimposed on top of an image from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory showing the CME propagating into space. Credit: NASA/SDO/Goddard, ESA&NASA ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214592582/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:55 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214592582/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Alaska Volcano Observatory has reported that the remote Pavlof Volcano continues to erupt and is now spewing lava, ash and steam 20,000 feet into the sky, which has been traveling southeast towards the Gulf of Alaska since Thursday. The Alaska Volcano Observatory ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591450/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:18:56 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591450/scat/a9927dde6777aafc German researchers have uncovered another cautionary tale about the importation of a species that quickly becomes an invasive threat. Introduced to Europe and North America for the purpose of controlling pesky greenhouse aphids, the Asian lady beetle escaped into the ecosystem and quickly dominated the local ladybug population. According to a new report in the ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591449/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:18:56 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591449/scat/a9927dde6777aafc weather remains one of those things in life that can't actually be changed, but being able to predict and track weather is the next best thing. By being able to improve forecasting and storm tracking abilities are just two ways that the United States National Weather Service ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591451/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:18:56 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591451/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Is it a case of anteater virgin birth, a hormonal quirk or just some desperate hanky-panky? Whatever it is, Armani the anteater's surprising pregnancy has sparked a debate over what animals are capable of when it comes to sex.The story unfolded at ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591452/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:16:40 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591452/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ionut Budisteanu, 19, of Romania was awarded first place for using artificial intelligence to create a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car at this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. When self-driving cars reach the masses, thanks may be due to a 19-year-old high-school student from Romania who developed an artificial intelligence that slashes the cost of the ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590363/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:16:39 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590363/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Moosehead heir bludgeoned with axe: Report The prime suspect in the murder of New Brunswick beer baron Richard Oland is his son, Dennis, it was revealed Friday after a judge lifted the publication ban in place since last fall. Oland, 69, was found dead in his Saint John office on July 7, 2011. Unconfirmed reports at the time said he'd been brutally beaten, possibly bludgeoned with an axe. ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590425/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:02:36 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590425/scat/a9927dde6777aafc IROQUOIS, Ont. - They say people have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than winning the lottery, and for Rodney Benton, that proved to be true. Benton, a Grade 7/8 teacher at Seaway District High School in this town south of Ottawa, was at home plate hitting balls to students Wednesday when he noticed some menacing clouds moving in and said, "Just a couple more hits then ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590723/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:02:35 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590723/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Another killer in Quebec not criminally responsible WINNIPEG -- Greyhound bus killer Vince Li has been granted more freedom, including supervised trips to Winnipeg, Lockport and its beaches. ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590469/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 17:02:33 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590469/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Pre-Hadfieldian! A picture captured by Gordo Cooper aboard Faith 7 (NASA) Imagine being alone, in space. Just you and your shiny spacesuit and your tiny metal capsule, the world splayed beneath you in swaths of blue and swirls of white. The only immediate link to the humans below you being a faint, crackling radio line back to Earth.It sounds kind of amazing, right? The first fortunate human to ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590754/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 16:54:06 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590754/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Russian Progress M-19M resupply spacecraft attached to the International Space Station was used to adjust the station's orbit Friday, Russian officials say. The space freighter's engines were run for slightly more than 15 minutes to raise the ISS's orbit by about 1.6 miles, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The station's orbit is now 259 miles above ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590531/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 16:44:36 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590531/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Kate Siena handles Porter, an injured male snapping turtle, at the Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre Tuesday. Porter and another injured female turtle were flown to the Peterborough trauma centre this past weekend. FILE PHOTO / THE OBSERVER Who says turtles can’t fly? Not a group of volunteers who went the distance to help a 13 lb. snapping turtle this weekend. When a driver found Porter the ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591454/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 16:37:58 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591454/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla is escorted out of the courtroom after listening to the verdict in his trial at a courthouse in the province of Cordoba in this December 22, 2010 file photo. (REUTERS/Tribunal Federal/Handout) BUENOS AIRES - Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "dirty war" dictatorship and ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591455/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 16:37:57 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214591455/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The U.S. space agency, NASA, has just spotted the biggest explosion on the Moon in the eight years since the agency has been monitoring lunar impacts caused by meteoroids. "On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214589406/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 16:12:22 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214589406/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); SNC's Dream Chaser test flight craft is hauled across the bed of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on May 15, ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590156/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 16:08:23 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590156/scat/a9927dde6777aafc O.J. Simpson enters the courtroom at an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Ethan ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214589035/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 15:50:35 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214589035/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Two months ago, NASA observed the largest explosion on the Moon that they’ve ever seen. And today, they’re talking about it and have released a cool video that shows the event as it took place. The explosion was caused by a meteorite, 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide, weighing in at about 40 kilograms. When it hit the moon, it was travelling at 56,000 miles per hour. According to NASA, it ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590151/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 15:42:24 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590151/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An elite U.S. Navy SEAL was killed and seven service members were injured in a vehicle accident during a training exercise at Fort Knox, Kentucky, the Navy said on ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214589537/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 15:41:47 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214589537/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Gaza across the Egyptian border. Mohammed al-Madani, financial manager of al-Yamama company, said the business idea came when employees contacted a friend who works at the KFC in al-Arish, Egypt, with some orders and they were able to smuggle the food through a tunnel within three hours, The Christian Science Monitor reported Friday. "Then we asked ourselves, 'Why don't we ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214589082/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 15:32:59 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214589082/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A survey of thousands of papers in scientific journals has found 97.1 percent agreed climate change is caused by human activity, an Australian-led study found. The near unanimity creates a powerful rebuttal to climate skeptics who insist the science of climate change remains unsettled, the survey authors said. Of the 4,000-plus papers that took a position on the causes of climate change, only ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590152/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 15:32:52 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214590152/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Space NASA scientists have recorded the biggest ever meteorite impact on the Moon, with an explosion equal to 5 tons of TNT. The event is part of 'lunar meteor showers' observed by astronauts of the Moon exploration program. The 40-kg meteorite measuring 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide traveling 56,000 mph slammed through the Moon's surface on March 17, 2013.The explosion from the ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214588865/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:41:21 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214588865/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Heavily-armed tactical officers mix with uniformed cops at a command post set up at Auvergne and St. Louis streets on Sunday morning after a Gatineau police officer was shot in the leg Saturday night while breaking up a bush party. Her injuries were not life threatening. (TONY SPEARS/QMI ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214587838/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:38:53 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214587838/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Elijah Harper speaks at the Manitoba Legislature on June 14, 1990. Harper, who was instrumental in defeating the Meech Lake Accord in 1990, died on Friday, May 17, 2013. (JOE BRYKSA/QMI Agency) WINNIPEG - Elijah Harper, one of Manitoba’s most respected aboriginal leaders, has died. Harper, the former Manitoba MLA and Cree leader who was a key figure in shutting down the failed Meech Lake ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214588140/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:38:50 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214588140/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ground Alberta beef in seen in coolers at Bon Ton Meat Market in Calgary on October 3, 2012. Bon Ton stated it was not effected by the recent E.Coli outbreak as they get their meat from select smaller producers. (REUTERS/Todd Korol) The federal government released new safety measures Friday requiring beef that's been mechanically tenderized be labelled as such and include cooking ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214588139/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:38:50 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214588139/scat/a9927dde6777aafc GRANBURY, Texas (Reuters) - All seven of the people listed as missing following a monster tornado on Wednesday have now been accounted for in Granbury, Texas, leaving the death toll at six, authorities said on ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214588184/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:29:33 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214588184/scat/a9927dde6777aafc climb steeply in the US a growing number of psychiatrists are arguing that suicidal behaviour should be considered as a disease in its own right, rather than as a behaviour resulting from a mood ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214588866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:21:06 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214588866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Screengrab/YouTube) A homeless man who achieved brief Internet fame for disrupting a California attack with his hatchet was arrested and charged with homicide on Thursday in the killing of a New Jersey attorney found bludgeoned to death in his home, officials said. Police arrested Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, 24, known as "Kai the Hitchhiker," at a bus terminal in Philadelphia, Union ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214588867/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 14:13:24 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214588867/scat/a9927dde6777aafc On November 17, 1970 the Soviet Luna 17 spacecraft landed the first roving remote-controlled robot on the Moon. Known as Lunokhod 1, it weighed just under 2,000 pounds and was designed to operate for 90 days while guided by a 5-person team on planet Earth at the Deep Space Center near Moscow, USSR. Lunokhod 1 actually toured the lunar Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) for 11 months in one of the ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214587470/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:43:08 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214587470/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Oxford University researchers in a new study found that a weak electrical signal can help boost a person’s mathematic skills over a period few months. The team wrote in the ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214587460/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:41:46 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214587460/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Scientists have known for some time that melting glaciers are contributing to the global sea-level rise. However, the amount being contributed by each region of the planet has never before been calculated with the accuracy of a new study led by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Clark University. Ninety-nine percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214586183/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:41:45 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214586183/scat/a9927dde6777aafc largest ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica . High shoreline markings from three million years ago as Earth was going through a warm period were thought to be evidence of a high sea level due to ice sheet collapse at the time - an assumption that has led many scientists to believe that if the world's largest ice sheets collapsed in the past, they will do so again. Global warming is adding ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214587459/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:41:45 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214587459/scat/a9927dde6777aafc New corruption probe for Italy's Silvio Berlusconi MILAN - The nightclub dancer at the centre of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s "bunga bunga" sex trial told a court on Friday that guests at the media tycoon’s parties dressed as nuns, nurses and U.S. President Barack Obama. Karima El Mahroug, better known by her stage name "Ruby the ... http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214586140/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:13 -0400 http://www.buffalobreeze.com/index.php/sid/214586140/scat/a9927dde6777aafc