<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Science</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/science?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><description>Science</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Study Says Antarctic Glaciers Are Shrinking, Sea Levels May Climb]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8000-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8000-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Most of the coastal glaciers along the 1,200-mile Antarctic Peninsula have shrunk as temperatures have risen over the past 50 years, and sea levels may climb if the trend continues, according to a study published today  in the journal Science.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic Voyager Mission May Lose Its Funding]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23500-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23500-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a cost-cutting move prompted by President Bush's moon-Mars initiative, NASA could  put an end to Voyager, the legendary 28-year mission that has sent a spacecraft farther from Earth than any object ever made by humans.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[T. Rex Find May Spur Biological Study]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63318-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63318-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Paleontologists have recovered what appear to be soft tissues from the thighbone of a 70 million-year-old <em>Tyrannosaurus rex</em>, potentially enabling dinosaur research to make a leap into studying the animals' physiology and perhaps even their cell biology.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopkins Physicist, Engineer Tapped to Head NASA]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27508-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27508-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush named Johns Hopkins University physicist and engineer Michael D. Griffin, a devotee of human space travel, to serve as administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Backs Human Cloning Ban]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18205-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18205-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS, March 8  --  The U.N. General Assembly adopted a declaration Tuesday that calls on governments to ban all forms of human cloning that are "incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life."]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Looking at Ways to Trap Gases]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42365-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42365-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If an ongoing experiment at the Goldwater Materials Science Laboratory at Arizona State University succeeds, the unassuming basement facility near Phoenix could offer a partial way out of the nation's greenhouse-gas problems.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older Fish Spawn Better]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38445-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38445-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Recent studies show that larger, older fish produce more eggs and surviving offspring than younger fish, researchers said, adding that policymakers need to protect broader swaths of the ocean to preserve these efficient spawners.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Budget Cuts Plan To Service Hubble]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27653-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27653-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The decision is likely to set up a fresh confrontation with Congress over the fate of the orbiting observatory, sources say.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Deep Impact' Probe to Try to Puncture a Comet]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61560-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61560-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Barring unforeseen delays, NASA will launch on Wednesday a 1,325-pound spacecraft on a one-way trip to the comet Tempel 1.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Administrator Steps Down]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60995-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60995-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sean O'Keefe quit Monday to pursue a job as chancellor of Louisiana State University Baton Rouge campus.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FINDINGS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62361-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62361-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Many Bird Species on the Decline <br>About 10 percent of all bird species face extinction by the end of the century, and 15 percent more are on the brink, according to researchers. Such extinctions, they say, would have a widespread impact on the environment, agriculture and human society.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 Stem Cell Options Presented]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33766-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33766-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The panel of experts that advises President Bush on bioethical issues heard descriptions Friday of two new laboratory techniques that may provide a way to get large numbers of medically promising stem cells without creating or killing human embryos.]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans May Double the Risk of Heat Waves]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26605-2004Dec1.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26605-2004Dec1.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Human activity has at least doubled the risk of heat waves like the one in 2003 that killed thousands in Europe, researchers conclude in a  study being published today in the scientific journal Nature.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slowly but Cheaply, a New Way to the Moon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49906-2004Nov14.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49906-2004Nov14.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[SMART-1, a spacecraft carrying an experimental engine, was designed to test ion propulsion. A mission set to begin in 2006, called Dawn, will use ion propulsion to explore the asteroids Ceres and Vesta in a multi-year journey.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robot Helps NASA Refocus on Hubble]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43778-2004Nov11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43778-2004Nov11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Because of the Canadian robot named "Dextre," in less than a year, NASA has gone from writing off the Hubble to embracing a mission that will cost up to $1.6B and approach in complexity the hardest jobs the agency has ever undertaken.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious Moonscape Seen on Saturn's Titan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3507-2004Oct27.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3507-2004Oct27.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cassini is flying to within 745 miles of Titan's surface and beaming back hundreds of images in a scouting trip that will lead to the Christmas Eve release of a probe for a parachute drop into Titan's atmosphere.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Puts Hands-Free Linkup to a Test]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59557-2004Oct24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59557-2004Oct24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Tuesday, barring a weather-caused delay, for the first time the United States will send an autonomous robot vehicle to join up with a satellite and conduct a 20-hour demonstration of its abilities -- without any human guidance.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Struggles for Shuttles' Return]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52540-2004Sep26.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52540-2004Sep26.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Twenty months after the Columbia tragedy, NASA is still struggling to overcome serious engineering hurdles  to resume flying its space shuttles in  March, a task that has become even tougher because of hurricane-caused work stoppages and damage to critical facilities.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Pieces  Of Genesis  Are Intact, NASA Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11563-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11563-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Scientists said Friday that they are optimistic that the space capsule wreckage will yield valuable information about the origins of the solar system.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Hopes Data Can Be Salvaged From Crashed Craft]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9690-2004Sep9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9690-2004Sep9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A top NASA official said Thursday that scientists examining the remains of the crashed Genesis space capsule have peeked inside a broken canister containing atoms from the sun and seen some intact collection plates, although others have probably been pureed to dust.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item></channel></rss>