AFP - South Korea will decide this week whether to let disgraced cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk resume human stem cell research, officials said Monday. Read more…

The CGI wizards, the loud proud mavens of manipulation, have a dilemma on their hands. They have in most forums and blog bragging venues, leaped enthusiastically to brag about their power to create pseudo reality. They have labeled those who think the drone saga is more than the mere result of highly skilled creative artistry as gullible fools. These 'bit map magicians' are claiming 'l'affaire drone' is a conspiracy that would make the X-Files jealous. Read more…

Quite a bit about the UFO and abduction phenomena puzzle me. For me, sometimes writing can bring out possibilities that otherwise stay hidden in the deepest part of the subconscious. It helps me think in a straight line, instead of jumping around from thought to thought and not building a complete picture. Several notable but circumstantial facts stand out about the UFO and abduction phenomena. It is a fact that astronomers are finding every day that the universe is bigger than previously thought. In a universe as incredibly huge as ours, it is pretty much a given that there is other life, and other intelligent life (I say other because I trust it is not the height of arrogance to refer to ourselves as intelligent). Read more…

I would like to initiate an open discussion as to how open negotiations between earth society and benevolent extraterrestrial races might proceed post-disclosure. What I hope will happen is that others may become involved who have some knowledge of this either in the public or classified world and together we can wrap our collective minds around this issue. I would not be surprised if negotiations might include both sanctions and incentives similar to how we handle things on earth so as to induce earth society to cooperate with universe society and not threaten the peace and security of the rest of the cosmic neighborhood. Read more…

Thanks to the coming forward of Dr. Edgar Mitchell, former United States astronaut of NASA, maybe the United States government will finally let the whole government and the public know about the flying saucer they have kept secret. There is a huge disclosure project pertaining to releasing the truth about the Roswell, New Mexico flying saucer retrieval in parts and the one intact. There are many places to read the stories on the astronaut's revelation and a video on you tube. Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Monday, July 28, 2008 Source: Langley Research Center Media Invited for Demo of NASA Lunar Surface Manipulator Concept HAMPTON, Va. Read more…

AFP - A British man accused of hacking into the computer systems of the US military and NASA on Wednesday lost his appeal against extradition to face trial. Read more…

Reuters - A British computer expert lost his appeal on Wednesday against extradition to the United States where he is accused of "the biggest military hack of all time" and could face up to 70 years in prison. Read more…

AP - Britain's top court refused Wednesday to stop the extradition to the U.S. of a British hacker accused of breaking into Pentagon and NASA computers — something he claims to have done while hunting for information on UFOs. Read more…

AP - Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon. Read more…

AFP - US satellite radio giants Sirius and XM completed their merger Tuesday after winning a lengthy battle with regulators over concerns about market competition. Read more…

NASA hosted a meeting of space agencies from nine countries last week to discuss the next steps in the ongoing scientific exploration of the moon. The meeting laid the groundwork for a new generation of lunar science. Read more…

A NASA concept for lifting and manipulating materials on the lunar surface will be demonstrated for reporters at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., on Friday, Aug. 1. Read more…

NASA will hold a series of news media briefings Sept. 8 - 9 to preview the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Read more…

NASA will discuss upcoming space shuttle mission STS-123 during a daylong series of media briefings from the Johnson Space Center beginning at 8 a.m. CST on Feb. 29. Read more…

At the 2008 General Aviation Technology Challenge being held Aug. 4-10, competitors will demonstrate innovations resulting in aircraft that are safer, less expensive and easier to operate, while having fewer negative impacts on the environment. Read more…

NASA's Constellation Program has selected 11 companies and one university to independently develop concepts that contribute to how astronauts will live and work on the moon. Read more…

NASA and the University of Arizona, Tucson, will hold a media briefing Thursday, July 31, at 11 a.m. PDT, in the mission's Science Operations Center at the university. Read more…

NASA, in partnership with the Exploratorium Science Center, San Francisco, Calif., and the University of California at Berkeley, will transmit live images of the Aug. 1, 2008, total eclipse of the sun. Read more…

The National Weather Service out of Brownsville, Texas and South Padre Island, Texas is reporting news of extensive damage. Damage includes downed trees and powerlines and roofs ripped off homes and hotels. These reports are significant but it may end up being the immense rain totals that end up causing the most damage and loss of life. At 530 PM CDT, weakening Hurricane Dolly had slowed to a crawl and was centered over western Willacy County. The southwest side of the center continues to produce torrential rains which are quickly adding up from southern and southwestern Willacy County continuing into much of Cameron County, with heavy rains now heading into eastern Hidalgo and southeastern Brooks County. As the night wears on, the locally heavy rains will continue, with an additional 3 to 7 inches possible in these areas and the likelihood of 2 to 5 inches stretching into the western Lower Rio Grande Valley and Rio Grande Plains as Dolly weakens to a tropical storm but continues to spread heavy rains and gusty winds. Minor damage is still possible especially in eastern Hidalgo, Willacy, and Cameron County. Such damage will include more downed tree limbs, power lines, and minor structural damage. Extensive damage reports in Willacy, as well as across eastern Cameron County and especially from Port Isabel to South Padre Island, continue to trickle in. A brief summary of reports so far is listed below. Considerable freshwater flooding may continue well into the night from eastern Hidalgo through Cameron County, with structures threatened in some areas along with potentially high waters in poor drainage areas with life threatening conditions possible! Residents are urged to remain indoors until conditions begin to improve sometime on Thursday. Significant flooding has been reported in Harlingen as of 530 PM. State Officials reported two feet of water in portions of downtown, with water in homes near Jackson Streeet. Police reported flooding on Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Filmore, and Commerce Streets. Meanwhile, streets in subdivisions on the north side of the city had up to six inches of water covering the ground. Estimated rainfall between 5 and up to 12 inches in Cameron County have caused widespread flooding of poor drainage areas from Brownsville to Port Isabel and South Padre Island. Numerous roads are covered in water, with poor drainage locations impassible. Extensive damage reports continue to trickle in to the NWS office from South Padre Island. Dozens of roofs have been reported torn off of residences and businesses, and a large amount of debris was noted on roads. Included landmarks were the Radisson Resort, the Holiday Inn, and the Sea Ranch Restaurant. One person was reported sucked out of a doorway on a 7th floor condominium where he fell and was injured. Hundreds, if not thousands, of trees and limbs have been damaged throughout Cameron and Willacy Counties. Extensive property damage has also been reported along State Highway 186 between Raymondville and Port Mansfield, where the southwestern eyewall continued to wreak havoc. Stay tuned for updates later this evening. The flash flooding problems will persist as Hurricane Dolly is tracking very slowly westward. The Weather Channel's Stu Ostro has a detailed blog post about the storm. He pulled these flood reports from the NWS. ...SEVERE FLOODING REPORTED IN HARLINGEN... HEAVY AND PERSISTENT SHOWERS...ASSOCIATED WITH THE EYE OF WEAKENING HURRICANE DOLLY...ARE CAUSING MAJOR FLOODING IN THE CITY OF HARLINGEN THIS EVENING. A TEXAS STATE OFFICIAL REPORTED TWO FEET OF WATER IN PORTIONS OF DOWNTOWN HARLINGEN...WITH WATER IN HOMES IN THE JACKSON STREET AREA. THE HARLINGEN POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED FLOODING ON POLK... TAYLOR...PIERCE...FILMORE...AND COMMERCE. For more local reports on Hurricane Dolly try the Brownsville Herald, KIII TV, Newschannel 5 and KVEO 23. Hurricane Dolly was downgraded to Tropical Storm Dolly with the NHC's 10PM CDT advistory. However, the flash flooding problems will continue as Dolly continues to drop copious amounts of rain. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds Read more…

The National Hurricane Center is very bullish on a wave that hasn't even exited Africa. The vigorous wave could quickly become the next tropical depression. The season is already off to a quick start with three storms this month - Bertha, Cristobal and Dolly. Dolly could become a hurricane and threaten the Texas or Mexico coast later this week. Here's the strongly worded Tropical Outlook from the NHC about the next wave to watch. A VIGOROUS AND WELL-DEFINED TROPICAL WAVE IS LOCATED OVER WESTERN AFRICA A FEW HUNDRED MILES EAST OF DAKAR SENEGAL. THIS SYSTEM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME A TROPICAL CYCLONE VERY QUICKLY AFTER IT EMERGES INTO THE EASTERN ATLANTIC ON TUESDAY. If this next wave becomes a TD it will be TD5 and if it gets a name it will be Edouard. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds Read more…

The rippling "Anaconda" produces electricity as it is squeezed by passing waves. A turbine place inside the tube generates electricity. Scientists are testing these "Anaconda" tubes inside wave tanks. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds Read more…

AP - Jim Lankford's corn crops used to stretch to the White River. Now the river has stretched itself through his crops. Read more…

LiveScience.com - A new material designed for use in microwaves heats foods and beverages more quickly and saves energy, its inventors say. Read more…

AP - A powerful typhoon struck Taiwan early Monday, closing schools and businesses and grounding domestic and international air traffic. Read more…