Sunday Newscape Magazine

Baltimore, Maryland - In commemoration of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100,000th orbit in its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., have aimed Hubble to take a snapshot of a dazzling region of celestial birth and renewal.

Cambridge, Massachusetts - One of the reasons food prices have risen sharply is the cost of fertilizer: Nearly 2 percent of the world’s energy goes into fertilizer production, which is becoming ever more costly as fuel prices rise.

Los Angeles, California - A study by USC researchers found that overweight Hispanic children are at significant risk for pre-diabetes, a condition marked by higher than normal blood glucose levels that are not yet high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes.

Tucson, Arizona - When Christopher McGinnis, a fine arts student, began sitting in on Douglas R. Nielsen’s dance class to sketch students in motion, it set off an artistic connection.

Dallas, Texas - Small, specially designed bits of ribonucleic acid (RNA) can interfere with cholesterol metabolism, reducing harmful cholesterol by two-thirds in pre-clinical tests, according to a new study by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in collaboration with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sahara Desert, Africa - The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and University of Chicago Professor Paul Sereno, whose team first happened on the site during a dinosaur-hunting expedition.