Newser - Science & Healthhttp://www.newser.com/2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorSat, 07 Nov 2009 3:07:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73525/yes-this-is-sammy-sosa.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciThe sports blogosphere is abuzz over some new photographs of Sammy Sosa in which the former performance-enhanced Chicago Cubs star looks much, much lighter-skinned than we’re used to. Seems nobody’s been able to reach Sosa yet, and nothing in the captions of photos from Tuesday’s event in Las Vegas yields...http://www.newser.com/story/73525/yes-this-is-sammy-sosa.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciFri, 06 Nov 2009 19:27:24 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73517/break-stuff-to-save-the-planet-gore.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciAl Gore says nonviolent disruption of polluters and airports is justified considering the grave threat posed by climate change. "Civil disobedience has an honorable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role...http://www.newser.com/story/73517/break-stuff-to-save-the-planet-gore.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciFri, 06 Nov 2009 16:15:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73491/humpback-whales-may-lose-endangered-tag.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciIn attempt to determine whether the humpback whales still need to be saved, the government is reviewing the marine mammals' place on the endangered species list for the first time in a decade. The results look promising: “They appear to be coming back pretty strongly in most of the places...http://www.newser.com/story/73491/humpback-whales-may-lose-endangered-tag.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciFri, 06 Nov 2009 11:55:26 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73430/wife-allergic-to-husbands-sperm-plans-to-adopt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciA Pennsylvania couple's wedding night—and their plans to have children—were ruined when the new wife discovered she was allergic to his sperm. Julie and Mike Boyde had had sex before, but had used protection until that night, when she found herself in excruciating pain. She was diagnosed with...http://www.newser.com/story/73430/wife-allergic-to-husbands-sperm-plans-to-adopt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciFri, 06 Nov 2009 8:21:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73467/mom-to-be-plans-to-broadcast-birth-online.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciA Minnesota mom-to-be has been blogging about her pregnancy daily for months and plans to bring readers into the delivery room with a live online broadcast of the birth. Lynsee and her husband agreed to a request from online community MomsLikeMe to allow a tasteful video of the birth, she...http://www.newser.com/story/73467/mom-to-be-plans-to-broadcast-birth-online.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciFri, 06 Nov 2009 8:11:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73450/breadcrumb-latest-speed-bump-for-collider.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciThe enormous science project buried beneath the France-Switzerland border has seen all kinds of detours in its search for the so-called “God particle”—busted vacuum tubes, al-Qaeda moles—so the latest might not be a huge surprise: A piece of bread dropped by a bird onto an outdoor segment caused...http://www.newser.com/story/73450/breadcrumb-latest-speed-bump-for-collider.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciFri, 06 Nov 2009 6:29:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73447/armys-stress-most-obvious-at-fort-hood.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciFort Hood has had more suicides than any other US Army facility since the start of the Iraq war, and while Nidal Hasan, the man officials say is responsible for yesterday's massacre, likely had unique motivations, he was perhaps only the most troubled member of a volunteer force buckling under...http://www.newser.com/story/73447/armys-stress-most-obvious-at-fort-hood.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciFri, 06 Nov 2009 6:16:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73421/wal-mart-sick-policy-creates-flu-threat-say-critics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciWalMart is taking heat for a restrictive policy that critics say pressures sick workers to go to work, swine flu be damned. Employees who take absences for an illness or a child’s illness rack up “points," and four points within a certain period can lead to termination. A workers' rights...http://www.newser.com/story/73421/wal-mart-sick-policy-creates-flu-threat-say-critics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciThu, 05 Nov 2009 17:59:29 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73413/drugstore-sorry-after-clerk-scares-child-with-flu.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciA New Hampshire drugstore has apologized to a customer after a pharmacy clerk enacted her own quarantine. Scott Sullivan’s 12-year-old son was told he probably had the flu by a doctor, who gave him a paper mask because he was coughing. At a local Walgreens, the clerk took one look...http://www.newser.com/story/73413/drugstore-sorry-after-clerk-scares-child-with-flu.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sciThu, 05 Nov 2009 16:28:40 CST