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Cloud Rat Rediscovered after 112 Years 1 May 08, 23:15 ET LiveScience.com - The greater dwarf cloud rat was thought to live in the canopies of tall trees in the Philippines, but the last sighting of one was 112 years ago. Now it has been found again. more Japan asks to borrow giant pandas from China 1 May 08, 19:52 ET AFP - Japan's prime minister said Thursday he has asked to borrow some giant pandas from China after Ling Ling, one of the best-loved animals at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, died of old age this week. more Unilever backs call for moratorium on palm oil deforestation in Indonesia 1 May 08, 19:48 ET AFP - Anlgo-Dutch food and consumer goods giant Unilever said Thursday it would back a moratorium on further palm oil deforestation in Indonesia and intended to use only fully traceable palm oil by 2015. more Oxygen depletion threatens ocean habitats: study 1 May 08, 19:44 ET AFP - Oxygen-depleted regions of tropical oceans are expanding, restricting habitats for fish and other marine life, an international team of scientists said in a study published Thursday. more Japan's Space Station Laboratory Ready to Fly 1 May 08, 18:45 ET SPACE.com - HOUSTON - The International Space Station (ISS) is about to get bigger. more How do baby birdies learn to sing? By babbling 1 May 08, 18:13 ET Reuters - Baby birds babble much like human infants do, and they have their own special brain circuits to do it, researchers reported on Thursday. more Breaking Up Not So Hard, Study Finds 1 May 08, 17:25 ET LiveScience.com - Breaking up is hard to do, but not as hard as we think. New research suggests we overestimate the heart-crushing blow from a romantic split, and some of us make particularly inaccurate forecasts. more Study: Warmer ocean water means less oxygen 1 May 08, 17:02 ET AP - Low-oxygen zones where sea life is threatened or cannot survive are growing as the oceans are heated by global warming, researchers warn. more Baby birds babble just like human babies learning to talk 1 May 08, 16:15 ET AP - The happy babbling that entertains parents as their babies try to mimic speech turns out to have a parallel in the animal world. Baby birds babble away before mastering their adult song, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. more Congress votes to ban genetic discrimination 1 May 08, 12:53 ET Reuters - A landmark bill to forbid discrimination against people whose genetic information shows a predisposition to certain illnesses won final U.S. congressional approval on Thursday. more Shuttle tank delays push back Hubble mission 1 May 08, 12:47 ET Reuters - Delays in producing space shuttle fuel tanks, which were substantially redesigned after the 2003 Columbia disaster, will postpone NASA's final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope by a month or longer, officials at the U.S. space agency said on Thursday. more Parachuting Dog Helped Win WWII 1 May 08, 09:45 ET LiveScience.com - The Allied airmen and women of World War II were certainly brave and skilled in battle, but even they couldn't win the war on their own. more Phoenix Lander Takes Aim at Martian Arctic 1 May 08, 09:45 ET SPACE.com - NASA's Mars-bound Phoenix spacecraft is gearing up for a landmark landing near the martian north pole this month to find out whether the region could have once supported microbial life. more Astrobiology Is Alive and Well 1 May 08, 09:45 ET SPACE.com - Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, opened AbSciCon 2008, the fifth bi-annual astrobiology science conference. His thoughtful view on life in the cosmic context set the tone for the vigorous and intellectually diverse meeting. more What Mars Fossils Might Look Like 1 May 08, 09:45 ET SPACE.com - Fossil microbes found along an iron-rich river in Spain reveal how signs of life could be preserved in minerals found on Mars. The discovery may help to equip the next generation Mars rover with the tools it would need to find evidence of past life on the planet. more

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