AP - NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars rover that would have allowed the spacecraft to store rock fragments in a mini-basket for a future mission.
AP - Japanese millionaire Daisuke Enomoto had planned to dress up as his favorite cartoon character in outer space and spent $21 million to make it happen. Now he claims the company that was supposed make his dream come true brushed him aside with little more than a "sorry, no refunds."
LiveScience.com - A string of bank collapses prompted Alan Greenspan, U.S. economic
guru and former head of the Federal Reserve, to admit last month that
lending institutions could not always be trusted to regulate
themselves. He could have taken a cue sooner by looking at the 2007
collapse of Ginko Financial, a virtual investment bank in the online
game "Second Life."
Reuters - Winter will be warmer than normal for much of the central United States, but government forecasters said on Thursday this season's weather for the rest of the country will be particularly hard to predict.
Reuters - A massive ball of fire that lit up the skies over two Western Canadian provinces on Thursday evening was likely among the biggest meteor events to be witnessed in Canada this year, one expert said.
