On Months-Long Missions, How Durable Is An Astronaut's Mind?

Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:31:33 -0700

As an international team of volunteers in Russia approaches the three-month mark in its ambitious simulation of a 520-day flight to Mars, researchers are keeping a close watch on how the six men are physically and psychologically coping.

Auctions: Paintings, provenances, and peculiarities

Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:18:47 -0700

The fall auction season will hit full stride next week with three major suburban events: a two-day sale of antiques and artwork featuring Pennsylvania impressionists; another two-day sale, with items from the Henry Ford Museum; and a third one offering such quirky items as a mounted warthog head.

Onions, garlic could be bad for pet oasis

Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:14:47 -0700

Onions, onion powder, garlic and garlic powder are ingredients in some dog and cat treat recipes. Onions and garlic are in pot roast, meatloaf and other "people food" that some have been feeding pets for years. But Internet sites, blogs and message boards run by pet lovers have been saying that onions are bad, although they generally don't back up those statements with any science.