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Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 11:27 AM PDT
Today's Reuters Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News: NASA's last space shuttle heading to Florida retirement home Spacewalkers leave station to track coolant leak Climate change, or crap shoot? Experts weigh Sandy's causes Start-ups plan new ways to deal with future disasters

NASA's last space shuttle heading to Florida retirement home  Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 11:27 AM PDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's third and last surviving space shuttle will move to its retirement home on Friday after a 10-mile road trip from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis, which ended the 30-year-old space shuttle program with a final flight last year, will be the star attraction of a new $100 million exhibit at the privately operated Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex adjacent to the NASA spaceport. ... Full Story	Top
Spacewalkers leave station to track coolant leak  Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 07:01 AM PDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A pair of spacewalking astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Thursday to attempt to bypass a leak in one of the outpost's cooling systems. Engineers suspect a micrometeoroid or tiny piece of space debris may have punched a hole no bigger than the width of a hair into one of the station's radiators. The devices dissipate heat from batteries and other equipment aboard the solar-powered station, a $100 billion laboratory for biological, fluid physics and other science experiments now flying about 255 miles above Earth. ... Full Story	Top
Climate change, or crap shoot? Experts weigh Sandy's causes  Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 05:52 AM PDT (Reuters) - A huge storm barrels down on the United States, wreaking havoc with punishing winds, record flooding, heavy snowfall and massive blackouts. Is the main culprit climate change or a freak set of coincidences? Sandy wiped out homes along the New Jersey shore, submerged parts of New York City, and dumped snow as far south as the Carolinas. At least 50 people were reported killed in the United States, on top of 69 in the Caribbean, while millions of people were left without power. ... Full Story	Top
Start-ups plan new ways to deal with future disasters  Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 04:10 AM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Floating robots to gather storm data, fuel cells for power outages, and tools to choose evacuation routes and help responders stay connected to the Internet are among the innovations that increasingly will help responders deal with future disasters, start-up companies say. These tools are helping track weather patterns and measure their strength, soften their impact and speed recovery. Many are already proving their worth, not just in massive storm Sandy but in other weather disasters such as Hurricane Isaac and this summer's extreme drought in the U.S. Midwest. ... Full Story	Top

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