Mr. Miller's Classroom
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BulletScientists expose mystery behind northern lights (AP).

In this Sept. 3, 2006 file photo, a spectator watches the aurora borealis rise above the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park, Alaska. On Thursday, July 24, 2008, NASA released findings that indicate magnetic explosions about one-third of the way to the moon cause the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to burst in spectacular shapes and colors, and dance across the sky. (AP Photo/M. Scott Moon, File)AP - Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights. On Thursday, NASA released findings that indicate magnetic explosions about one-third of the way to the moon cause the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to burst in spectacular shapes and colors, and dance across the sky.




BulletScientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton (AP).

In this photo taken earlier July, 2008 and released by Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences (HMNS) in Okayama, western Japan, a fossilized skull of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur recovered Aug. 8, 2006 in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia is shown. The fossil of Tarbosaurus — related to the giant carnivorous Tyrannosaurus — believed to have died at age five and measured about 6.6 feet (2 meters) long, was uncovered by Japanese and Mongolian scientists in joint research projects by Japan's Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, a spokesman for the Japanese museum said Thursday, July 24, 2008. A 10-centimeter (3.9-inch) blue and white measure is placed with the skull. (AP Photo/Hayashibara Museum of National Sciences, HO)AP - Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.




BulletEPA: Few volunteering to cut greenhouse gases (AP).

Exhaust flows out of the tailpipe of a vehicle, in 2007 in Miami, Florida. Environmentalists are seething after the administration of US President George W. Bush delayed any decision on regulating greenhouse gases, likely leaving any substantive action to his successor.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AP - Voluntary pollution-reduction programs touted by the Bush administration as part of the solution to global warming have "limited potential" to reduce greenhouse gases, according to an internal government watchdog.




BulletBody Language: What McCain and Obama Reveal (LiveScience.com).

A combination photo shows presidential candidate Senator John McCain (L) during a speech in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 25, 2008 and presidential candidate Barack Obama (R) during a town hall-style meeting in Detroit June 2, 2008. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/Jason ReedLiveScience.com - Barack Obama spoke in front of 200,000 Germans in Berlin on Thursday at the start of a European tour, while John McCain talked to small business leaders at a fourth-generation German restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. But regardless of the audience, people undoubtedly paid as much attention to the nonverbal performance as they did to what each presidential candidate said.




BulletDolly dwindles but flood threat still looms in Texas, Mexico (AFP).

A man steps under power lines outside his home that was destroyed by high winds July 23 in Port Isabel, Texas. One person was killed as storm Dolly dumped rain over Texas and Mexico after pummeling the coast as a hurricane and threatening to trigger more floods even as it weakened into a tropical depression.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Dave Einsel)AFP - One person was killed as tropical depression Dolly dumped rain over Texas and Mexico on Friday after pummeling the coast as a hurricane and stirring up floods.




BulletChina aims for bigger slice of satellite market (Reuters). Reuters - China aims to build a leading aerospace industry by 2015, when the country would command 10 percent of the world's commercial satellite market, and 15 percent of the space launch market, Xinhua said on Friday.

Bullet117 cats, raccoon, and rabbit found at Omaha home (AP). AP - Humane society workers have found 117 cats, a raccoon and a rabbit in a north Omaha house. The discovery came Wednesday after Council Bluffs, Iowa, police caught the 54-year-old woman who lives at the house reportedly stealing cat food. Officials say she smelled like cat urine.

BulletUnknown insects found in 110-million-year-old amber in Spain (AFP).

This undated photo shows an insect enclosed in an amber discovered by scientists of the Universities of Jena and Rostock in 2005. The remains of several unknown insect species which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have been discovered in pieces of 110-million-year-old amber found in Spain, researchers said Thursday.(AFP/HO/File/Hans Pohl)AFP - The remains of several unknown insect species which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have been discovered in pieces of 110-million-year-old amber found in Spain, researchers said Thursday.




BulletVirgin Islands weighs gas pipeline to Puerto Rico (AP). AP - The U.S. Virgin Islands may build a pipeline to replace diesel-generated power with natural gas brought in from a bigger grid in the nearby U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the head of the islands' utility company said Thursday.

BulletSafety of cloned animal products uncertain: EU agency (Reuters).

Gloria, the first calf born to a cloned cow Vitoria (L), is seen on a government farm outside of Brasilia, October 4, 2004. (Jamil Bittar/Reuters)Reuters - The European Union's top food safety agency said on Thursday cloned animal products may not be safe and further study was needed, prompting another battle of conscience within the bloc over the merits of new technology.

 

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