Cape Canaveral partially reopens as NASA assesses hurricane damage and other top stories.

• Cape Canaveral partially reopens as NASA assesses hurricane damage

  As the state of Florida braced for the impact of Hurricane Matthew, it seemed that Cape Canaveral, the site of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, would be directly in the storm's path. The staff was reduced to a skeleton crew to ride out the storm, and the park was closed to visitors.But before the hurricane descended on the complex, the winds shifted and the storm began to weaken. As the storm moved away, the skeleton crew immediately began to assess the damage.The news from the assessment seems to ..

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• Scientists shocked by discovery about apes

  

  An incredible new finding may change how we think about apes.Scientists have found out something about apes that suggests that we may not be as special as we think we are. A new paper indicates that apes are able to understand the unstated thoughts and desires of others, something that until now it was thought only humans could do. A research team comprised of scientists from Duke University in the United States and Kyoto University in japan watched 41 chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans, showi..

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• New Fault Line Discovered Near San Andreas

  

  Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Geologists in Southern California made a discovery that has rattled earthquake models and tectonic theories: there’s a new fault line running parallel to the San Andreas. Located in a shallow, inland region of the Salton Sea to the west of the San Andreas Fault, the new fault is now known as the Salton Tough Fault. Salton Tough was discovered by researchers at the University of California San Diego, in cooperation with the Nevada Seismological Laborato..

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• NASA's 'Martian Gardens' To Find Best Vegetables To Grow On Mars

  

  Farming on the red planet is much different from growing crops on Earth.Washington:  NASA scientists are using simulated 'Martian gardens' to learn which plants astronauts might be able to grow during future manned missions to the red planet.One major challenge for human journey to Mars will be determining how to pack enough food for astronauts for these kinds of extended missions.Simulated "Martian gardens," developed at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre and the Florida Tec..

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• How This Year's Nobel Laureates In Physics Changed The Game

  

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• Why Rush Limbaugh thinks Hurricane Matthew is liberal propaganda

  

  Conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh offered a bold assessment of Hurricane Matthew on Wednesday: the category 4 storm was exaggerated by the Obama administration in order to validate climate change theories.At the crux of Limbaugh’s argument was the so-called ‘hurricane drought’ in the United States, which ended when Matthew made landfall in Florida last week. After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, former vice president Al Gore predicted that hurricane activity would increase as a re..

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• Researchers, volunteers dig up mastodon in Michigan's Thumb

  

  MAYVILLE, Mich. (AP) — A farmer who two years ago picked up a mastodon bone in a creek is a member of a team of researchers, teachers and graduate students taking part in an archaeological dig in Michigan's Thumb area to unearth more bones from the extinct animal. Seth Colling, a part-time teacher at the Fowler Center for Outdoor Learning, a year-round camp for children and adults with special needs, told the Times Herald in Port Huron (http://bwne.ws/2dArI55) that the dig for mastodon bones is..

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• Exoplanet Proxima B Orbiting Star Near Sun May Have Liquid Ocean

  

  In August earlier this year, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Harvard University announced the discovery of Proxima B, a rocky planet that orbits a neighboring star of the Solar System's sun. The exoplanet is in the so called "habitable" zone of its host star Proxima Centauri, which means that it lies in the region where the average temperature is just right for liquid water to exist, which indicate possibility that it can support life. Now, findings of a new study, ..

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