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Friday, Nov 02, 2012 03:36 PM PDT
Today's Reuters Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Last NASA space shuttle becomes museum piece Mars rover still sniffing for elusive methane Pressure builds for better oil spill clean-up technology Skydiver Baumgartner says was defending self when punched man

Last NASA space shuttle becomes museum piece  Friday, Nov 02, 2012 03:36 PM PDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's last space shuttle rolled out of a hangar in Florida on Friday and traveled down the road to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to begin a new life as a museum piece. Atlantis is the third and final shuttle to be retired and turned over for public display after the end of the 30-year-old shuttle program last year. "Don't cry because it's over; smile because we had it," Patty Stratton, a manager with shuttle contractor United Space Alliance, told workers gathered before dawn outside the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building. ... Full Story	Top
Mars rover still sniffing for elusive methane  Friday, Nov 02, 2012 02:19 PM PDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov 2 - Initial analysis of the atmosphere of Mars from NASA's rover Curiosity has shown no sign of methane, a gas detected previously by remote sensors, researchers said on Friday. On Earth, more than 90 percent of the methane in the atmosphere results from living organisms and its presence in the Martian atmosphere, first detected in 2003, raised the prospect of microbial life on the planet. Although no methane was detected during Curiosity's first detailed atmospheric analysis, scientists working under the auspices of the U.S. space agency plan to keep looking. ... Full Story	Top
Pressure builds for better oil spill clean-up technology  Friday, Nov 02, 2012 06:01 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - With oil becoming scarcer and more expensive, the economics of the industry may finally tip in favor of one of the most neglected areas of its business - the technology for cleaning up oil spills. Despite efforts by scientists to find new and more effective ways to deal with spilt oil, there has been little fundamental change in the technology in the two decades since the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster that spilled 750,000 barrels of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska. ... Full Story	Top
Skydiver Baumgartner says was defending self when punched man  Friday, Nov 02, 2012 04:09 AM PDT VIENNA (Reuters) - Felix Baumgartner, the skydiver who made headlines around the world last month after jumping from a balloon near the edge of space, will try to overturn an assault conviction next week, saying he acted in self-defense, his lawyer said on Friday. The 43-year-old Austrian was fined 1,500 euros ($1,900) by a lower court for battery after he punched a Greek truck driver in the face during a 2010 altercation that broke out during a traffic jam near Salzburg. ... Full Story	Top

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