Science Headlines
Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
AP - Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:34 p.m.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights. On Thursday, NASA released findings that indicate magnetic explosions about one-third of the way to the moon cause the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to burst in spectacular shapes and colors, and dance across the sky....
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
AP - Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:26 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science....
Zoo will reopen exhibit where 16 stingrays died
AP - Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:50 p.m.
BROOKFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A zoo in suburban Chicago plans to reopen an exhibit where 16 stingrays died last week when a malfunction let the tank\'s water get too warm....
EPA: Few volunteering to cut greenhouse gases
AP - Thursday, July 24, 2008 3:38 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Voluntary pollution-reduction programs touted by the Bush administration as part of the solution to global warming have "limited potential" to reduce greenhouse gases, according to an internal government watchdog....
Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
AP - Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:21 p.m.
TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday....
N.M. cavers chart unique `snowy' river of crystals
AP - Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:16 a.m.
FORT STANTON CAVE, N.M. (AP) -- Hundreds of feet beneath Earth\'s surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum crystals and mineral deposits....
Western governors offer greenhouse emissions plan
AP - Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:38 a.m.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Seven Western states are joining four Canadian provinces to propose a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions through use of a "cap and trade" system....
Expert warns wheat residue too valuable to lose
AP - Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:38 a.m.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Times are good for wheat farmers, but they should resist the urge to harvest their crop residue and sell it for ethanol production, a federal researcher says....
McKusick, pioneer in medical genetics, dies at 86
AP - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:38 p.m.
TOWSON, Md. (AP) -- Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86....
Judge: EPA must regulate ship water discharge
AP - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:48 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An appeals court Wednesday upheld a ruling ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the water discharged from ships as a way to protect local ecosystems from invasive species....
Unknown disease killing off Florida's state tree
AP - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:50 p.m.
MIAMI (AP) -- The sabal palm, Florida\'s state tree, is under attack by a microscopic killer that has scientists stumped. An unknown but growing number of sabal palms in the Tampa Bay area have died from a mysterious disease that researchers are struggling to identify. Even after scientists pinpoint the disease - and that could take years - they will have to learn what insect spreads it. The disease will be tough to stop....
WNBA reviewing fight between Detroit, LA players
AP - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:08 p.m.
The WNBA always seems to crave more attention. Mission accomplished, albeit it without a dunk or fantastic play....
Researcher says Gulf dead zone bigger than ever
AP - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:39 a.m.
HOUSTON (AP) -- A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist warned....
Scholars plan to reunite ancient Bible _ online
AP - Monday, July 21, 2008 4:16 p.m.
LONDON (AP) -- The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again - online....
Ancient Egyptian boat to be excavated, reassembled
AP - Monday, July 21, 2008 4:16 p.m.
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza\'s Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday....
Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil
AP - Sunday, July 20, 2008 1:35 p.m.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro\'s tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday....
Judge restores protection for Rockies wolves
AP - Friday, July 18, 2008 9:37 p.m.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall....
Judge: Water delivery system harms Calif. salmon
AP - Friday, July 18, 2008 9:12 p.m.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Friday that California\'s water systems threaten to push native, wild salmon into extinction but stopped short of ordering any immediate water cutbacks farmers said would have cost them millions in lost crops....
Purdue panel finds misconduct by fusion scientist
AP - Friday, July 18, 2008 2:16 p.m.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A Purdue University panel has found two instances of misconduct by a researcher who claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments....
Park tests hybrid buses in McKinley's shadow
AP - Friday, July 18, 2008 5:35 a.m.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- For years, visitors wanting to see Denali National Park\'s grizzly bears, moose, sheep and caribou have had to ride school buses that polluted the air and spoiled the tranquillity with their noisy, carbon dioxide-spewing diesel engines....
Tiny bug threatens California citrus industry
AP - Friday, July 18, 2008 1:54 a.m.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Border agents have stepped up searches and hundreds of traps have been placed on the California-Mexico line in an aggressive campaign to stop a tiny bug from bringing in a disease farmers say could wipe out the $1.3 billion citrus industry here....
Mexico says US soldiers' remains found
AP - Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:36 p.m.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican archaeologists have found the remains of what appear to be four U.S. soldiers who died in 1846 during the Mexican-American war, the government announced on Thursday....
Veterinarian saves shark that swallowed hook
AP - Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:51 p.m.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- A veterinarian in Australia plunged his arm up to his shoulder into the throat of a rare shark to save the animal after it swallowed a grappling hook....
Gore: Carbon-free electricity in 10 years doable
AP - Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:38 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore called Thursday for a "man on the moon" effort to switch all of the nation\'s electricity production to wind, solar and other carbon-free sources within 10 years, a goal that he said would solve global warming as well as economic and natural security crises caused by dependence on fossil fuels....
Should we move species to save them?
AP - Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:30 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move some species to save them. Dubbed assisted colonization or assisted migration, the idea is to decide how severe the threat is to various species, and if they need help to deal with it....
Smithsonian dishes the dirt on, well, dirt
AP - Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:30 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dishing the dirt has a long history in Washington, but the Smithsonian Institution is taking it to new depths. The National Museum of Natural History opens a new exhibit on Saturday - "Dig It" - exploring the mysterious and complex world of soil....
Researchers report toadfish sing to attract mates
AP - Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:30 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It\'s not exactly Tony serenading Maria in "West Side Story," but for all their homeliness toadfish also sing to attract mates. OK, singing may be a stretch; it\'s more of a hum. But it turns out to be useful, for science as well as the fish....
Calif condors' animal instinct takes over in fire
AP - Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:21 p.m.
BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) -- As wildfire whipped toward a remote sanctuary of the endangered California condor last month, the rare birds got their biggest test in survival after years of pampering by biologists: They had to live completely on their own....
Warming health report: Poor, elderly to hurt most
AP - Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:06 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming will affect the health and welfare of every American, but the poor, elderly, and children will suffer the most, according to a new White House science report released Thursday....
Automakers offer hybrids for NYC taxi fleet
AP - Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:14 a.m.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Three major auto manufacturers are promising to reserve 300 new hybrid vehicles each month exclusively for the city as it replaces its entire fleet of yellow cabs....
House deals blow to proposed Mass. LNG terminal
AP - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:24 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House on Wednesday approved extending federal "wild and scenic" environmental protection to the lower Taunton River in Massachusetts, dealing a blow to developers who want to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on an urbanized stretch of riverbank....
Scientists: $200M loss from Great Lakes invasives
AP - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:49 p.m.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Foreign species that slipped into the Great Lakes in ballast tanks of oceangoing cargo ships cost the regional economy at least $200 million a year, according to a University of Notre Dame study released Wednesday....
Cathedral dig yields finds from 1700s New Orleans
AP - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:39 p.m.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The first archaeological dig at one of the nation\'s oldest cathedrals has turned up a mix of new finds in the heart of the French Quarter. Discoveries behind St. Louis Cathedral include a small silver crucifix from the 1770s or 1780s and traces of previously unknown buildings dating back to around the city\'s founding in 1718....
NASA moon capsule running late, full of problems
AP - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:42 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The Associated Press Wednesday....
NASA to workers: Go boldly (in cup) for science
AP - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:11 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The No. 1 need right now for some of the builders of the nation\'s next spaceship: Lots of No. 1....
Astronauts take another spacewalk for tamer job
AP - Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:15 p.m.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The space station\'s two Russian astronauts stepped outside for the second time in less than a week Tuesday, taking a spacewalk that proved to be tame compared to last week\'s work with explosives....
Training reassessed after plutonium spill
AP - Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:28 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Use of radioactive materials has been suspended and worker training is being reassessed following a plutonium spill at the Boulder, Colo., laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the agency\'s deputy director told a congressional subcommittee Tuesday....
Mystery insect bugging experts at London museum
AP - Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:41 a.m.
LONDON (AP) -- The experts at London\'s Natural History Museum pride themselves on being able to identify species from around the globe, from birds and mammals to insects and snakes. Yet they can\'t figure out a tiny red-and-black bug that has appeared in the museum\'s own gardens....
Report: US behind in doubling science grads
AP - Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:26 a.m.
A high-profile push by business groups to double the number of U.S. bachelor\'s degrees awarded in science, math and engineering by 2015 is falling way behind target, a new report says....
Alaska volcano spews huge ash plume for 3rd day
AP - Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:28 a.m.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Lonnie Kennedy was taking everything in stride after he and his family were rescued from their cattle ranch near an erupting volcano. The mountain, on the other hand, remained agitated, spewing out a huge plume of ash more than 6 miles high....
Cancer forces Tasmanian devils to breed earlier
AP - Monday, July 14, 2008 4:27 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The little devils just can\'t wait. Faced with an epidemic of cancer that cuts their lives short, Tasmanian devils have begun breeding at younger ages, according to researchers at the University of Tasmania in Australia....
EPA experts detail global warming's health risks
AP - Monday, July 14, 2008 3:36 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government scientists detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an analysis the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases....
NASA engineers work on alternative moon rocket
AP - Monday, July 14, 2008 1:13 p.m.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- By day, the engineers work on NASA\'s new Ares moon rockets. By night, some go undercover to work on a competing design. These dissenting scientists and their backers insist they have created an alternative rocket that would be safer, cheaper and easier to build than the two Ares spacecraft that will replace the space shuttle....
Pope Benedict arrives in Australia
AP - Saturday, July 12, 2008 11:12 p.m.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Australia on Sunday, saying he wants to use his visit to raise awareness about global warming and address the crisis of clergy sexual abuse....
Yellow submarine: Unmanned sub studies ocean
AP - Saturday, July 12, 2008 4:59 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Far out in the Atlantic, a little yellow submarine is trying to slip from current to current, gliding across the ocean beneath the waves....
Pope expresses worry about climate change
AP - Saturday, July 12, 2008 4:35 a.m.
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday he wants to wake up consciences on climate change during his pilgrimage in Australia....
US judge blocks gas drilling in Michigan forest
AP - Saturday, July 12, 2008 3:35 a.m.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- A federal judge has overturned a decision by the U.S. Forest Service to allow oil and gas drilling near a forest and a river in Michigan\'s northern Lower Peninsula....
Report: 2nd oldest US wildlife refuge in jeopardy
AP - Friday, July 11, 2008 8:01 p.m.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The nation\'s second oldest national wildlife refuge, a chain of barrier islands southeast of New Orleans, is in danger of being lost unless the islands are restored, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday....
Mars bake test hastened after oven short circuit
AP - Friday, July 11, 2008 1:14 p.m.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Will the Mars lander\'s next baking test of soil and ice be its last?...
Lightning claims 5 young lives in a week
AP - Friday, July 11, 2008 1:07 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five young lives have been ended by lightning in less than a week, a deadly reminder of one of summer\'s leading hazards....
Siberian mammoths on display in Taiwan
AP - Friday, July 11, 2008 2:34 a.m.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- The frozen remains of two woolly mammoths - long extinct Ice Age elephants - went on display Friday in Taiwan....
Ancient Rome's she-wolf statue not so ancient?
AP - Friday, July 11, 2008 12:58 a.m.
ROME (AP) -- She suckled Rome\'s legendary twin founders and fed Benito Mussolini\'s ambitious dreams of renewed imperial glories....
AP IMPACT: An American life worth less today
AP - Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:14 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It\'s not just the American dollar that\'s losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn\'t worth what it used to be....
EPA: Smog could get worse with global warming
AP - Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:30 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming could worsen smog and stretch what typically is a summer pollution problem into the spring and fall, government scientists predicted Thursday....
Window coatings can channel energy
AP - Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:31 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Perhaps Johnny Nash should be singing, "I can see energy now."...
DNA in JonBenet case left behind in skin cells
AP - Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:29 a.m.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Crime scene DNA is typically recovered from blood or semen stains, but the DNA that exonerated members of JonBenet Ramsey\'s family came from invisible skin cells....
Feds: Grazing doesn't fit Ore. national monument
AP - Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:25 a.m.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Federal rangeland managers said continuing to allow cattle to graze on the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is harming the rare plants, fish and wildlife the monument was created eight years ago to protect....
Fringe autism treatment could get federal study
AP - Wednesday, July 9, 2008 4:46 a.m.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine....
Milwaukee museum unveils woolly mammoth skeleton
AP - Wednesday, July 9, 2008 1:22 a.m.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A 14,500-year-old woolly mammoth skeleton dug up in 1994 has been unveiled at the Milwaukee Public Museum, giving locals a glimpse of perhaps the most intact specimen discovered in North America....
Developing economies don't back G-8 climate goal
AP - Tuesday, July 8, 2008 10:39 p.m.
TOYAKO, Japan (AP) -- A joint gathering of major developed and developing nations on Wednesday agreed that climate change was "one of the great global challenges of our time" and pledged to back a United Nations effort to conclude new climate pact by 2009. The major economies said they supported longterm and midterm goals for greenhouse-gas reductions, but endorsed no targets....
Wolverine advocates give notice of intent to sue
AP - Tuesday, July 8, 2008 4:15 p.m.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Nine environmental groups said Tuesday they plan to sue the federal government if wolverines aren\'t granted protection under the Endangered Species Act within 60 days....
Polar bear harassment by oil companies challenged
AP - Tuesday, July 8, 2008 4:12 p.m.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Bush administration\'s decision to let oil companies unintentionally harass or harm polar bears and walruses off the northwestern Alaska coast....
NASA sets date for final shuttle mission in 2010
AP - Tuesday, July 8, 2008 10:44 a.m.
HOUSTON (AP) -- NASA has tentatively set the final space shuttle mission for May 31, 2010, four months before the shuttle fleet retires....
NOAA report: US coral reefs in severe decline
AP - Monday, July 7, 2008 2:54 p.m.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Almost half the coral reef ecosystems in United States territory are in poor or fair condition, mostly because of rising ocean temperatures, according to a government report released Monday....
Panda moved after China quake gives birth to twins
AP - Saturday, July 5, 2008 11:41 p.m.
BEIJING (AP) -- A panda who was relocated after China\'s deadly earthquake damaged her home gave birth to twin cubs on Sunday, a state news agency said....
Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot
AP - Saturday, July 5, 2008 9:52 p.m.
TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- The knock on Brian Hart\'s door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq....
Hawaiian volcano spewing more lava than usual
AP - Saturday, July 5, 2008 7:26 p.m.
VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- More lava than usual is spilling from Hawaii\'s Kilauea volcano into the ocean....
Study: Orangutan populations declining sharply
AP - Saturday, July 5, 2008 8:49 a.m.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn\'t taken, a new study says....
Syria returns stolen marble artifact to Iraq
AP - Friday, July 4, 2008 1:49 a.m.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Syria has returned a marble artifact to Iraq that was stolen from one of the country\'s archaeological sites....
July 4th boaters: Steer clear of NJ dolphin family
AP - Thursday, July 3, 2008 9:57 p.m.
SEA BRIGHT, N.J. (AP) -- Authorities protecting a dolphin family in a New Jersey river are stepping up enforcement over the July Fourth holiday....
Merger of US earth sciences agencies proposed
AP - Thursday, July 3, 2008 2:04 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- From climate change to volcanoes and earthquakes, the world\'s growing challenges have leaders in earth science proposing a merger of agencies that study the planet....
Scientists: Watermelon yields Viagra-like effects
AP - Thursday, July 3, 2008 4:45 a.m.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra - but don\'t necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long....
G-8 climate scorecard shows US in last
AP - Thursday, July 3, 2008 3:24 a.m.
BERLIN (AP) -- The U.S. has done the least among the world\'s eight largest economies to address global warming, a study released Thursday found....
Mass. lobstermen promote practices as whale safe
AP - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 5:59 p.m.
BOSTON (AP) -- New green rubber bands that will bind the claws of Massachusetts lobsters beginning this weekend won\'t save the lobsters from the dinner table. But they signify a state initiative aimed at saving whales....
Washington's boyhood home found, but no hatchet
AP - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 3:02 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The archaeologists were delighted to at last find the remains of George Washington\'s boyhood home but got stumped when they looked for evidence of the cherry tree and rusty hatchet....
First floods, now pesky mosquitoes for Midwest
AP - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 2:52 p.m.
CHICAGO (AP) -- First came the floods - now the mosquitoes. An explosion of pesky insects are pestering clean-up crews and just about anyone venturing outside in the waterlogged Midwest....
Space probes show solar system dented, not round
AP - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 1:07 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When viewed from the rest of the galaxy, the edge of our solar system appears slightly dented as if a giant hand is pushing one edge of it inward, far-traveling NASA probes reveal....
Hot future shock: Heat wave temperatures to soar
AP - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 1:04 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- During the European heat wave of 2003 that killed tens of thousands, the temperature in parts of France hit 104 degrees. Nearly 15,000 people died in that country alone. During the Chicago heat wave of 1995, the mercury spiked at 106 and about 600 people died....
Experts say tourists harming Machu Picchu
AP - Tuesday, July 1, 2008 11:27 a.m.
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- An influx of tourists to Peru\'s famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu may prompt UNESCO to add the jungle-shrouded ruins to its list of endangered World Heritage sites....
Study finds long benefit in illegal mushroom drug
AP - Tuesday, July 1, 2008 5:59 a.m.
NEW YORK (AP) -- In 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project....
Scientists say ailing penguins signal sea problems
AP - Tuesday, July 1, 2008 4:16 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The dwindling march of the penguins is signaling that the world\'s oceans are in trouble, scientists now say. Penguins may be the tuxedo-clad version of a canary in the coal mine, with generally ailing populations from a combination of global warming, ocean oil pollution, depleted fisheries, and tourism and development, according to a new scientific review paper....
Groups seek drilling halt near sage grouse habitat
AP - Tuesday, July 1, 2008 2:56 a.m.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Two conservation groups have asked the federal government to impose new restrictions on oil and gas development in the West to protect the greater sage grouse, a popular game bird on the decline....
Rocky Mountain conservation deal tops $500 million
AP - Monday, June 30, 2008 8:02 p.m.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Some of the most prized land in the northern Rocky Mountains is being protected from development in a conservation land deal hailed as the largest of its kind in U.S. history....
Sea turtle Dylan is released back into the wild
AP - Monday, June 30, 2008 9:46 a.m.
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (AP) -- A 150-pound sea turtle raised by humans returned to freedom on Monday after nine years of captivity, swimming away after the veterinarians who cared for her helped steer her toward the ocean....
Want scientific immortality? Name a sea worm
AP - Monday, June 30, 2008 9:27 a.m.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jeff Goodhartz is single and has no children. But he wanted to ensure the family name would live on after he\'s gone....
Researchers make noises of pre-Columbian society
AP - Sunday, June 29, 2008 5:13 p.m.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand....
Great Lakes compact focus shifting to Congress
AP - Sunday, June 29, 2008 5:05 p.m.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- A year ago, it seemed a proposed interstate compact designed to prevent thirstier regions from raiding the Great Lakes might be sunk by squabbles among the eight states with jurisdiction over the vast reservoir....
Scientists: Nothing to fear from atom-smasher
AP - Saturday, June 28, 2008 12:08 p.m.
MEYRIN, Switzerland (AP) -- The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August....
This summer may see first ice-free North Pole
AP - Friday, June 27, 2008 6:02 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- There\'s a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will be ice-free this summer, which would be a first in recorded history, a leading ice scientist says....
Navy approves plan for sonar training off Hawaii
AP - Friday, June 27, 2008 4:34 a.m.
HONOLULU (AP) -- The Navy has adopted a new plan for training in Hawaii waters that it says will allow it to accelerate some exercises and hold them more frequently while continuing to limit the effects of its sonar on marine mammals....
Tony Blair urges action on climate change
AP - Friday, June 27, 2008 12:20 a.m.
TOKYO (AP) -- The world already knows that global warming is a serious problem and the time has come for politicians and experts to come together to map out a practical solution, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday....
California air regulators tackling climate law
AP - Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:21 p.m.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California air regulators on Thursday released the country\'s most sweeping global warming plan, outlining ambitious measures for cleaner cars, renewable energy and a cap on major polluters....
Court says no deadline for EPA on global warming
AP - Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:27 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court refused Thursday to make a resistant Bush administration speed up a decision on whether greenhouse gases and global warming threaten public health and welfare....
Study: Global warming chases plants uphill
AP - Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:02 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Faced with global warming, plants are heading for the hills. A study of 171 forest species in Western Europe shows that most of them are shifting their favored locations to higher, cooler spots....
Museum confirms discovery of rare fossil
AP - Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:55 p.m.
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Scientists with the Virginia Museum of Natural History have confirmed the discovery of a 500 million-year-old fossil called a stromatolite....
No-fishing zones studied for ecosystem protection
AP - Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:09 a.m.
DRY TORTUGAS NATIONAL PARK, Fla. (AP) -- Reeling in a 45-pound grouper used to be just an average day on the water in the Florida Keys....
Project to dissect cocoa genome, protect crop
AP - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:30 p.m.
MIAMI (AP) -- Government scientists are launching a five-year project Thursday aimed at safeguarding the world\'s chocolate supply by dissecting the genome of the cocoa bean....
Scientists think big impact caused two-faced Mars
AP - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:44 p.m.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Why is Mars two-faced? Scientists say fresh evidence supports the theory that a monster impact punched the red planet, leaving behind perhaps the largest gash on any heavenly body in the solar system....
Ex-EPA official critical on climate change
AP - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:38 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A high-ranking political appointee resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency after concluding there was no more progress to be made on greenhouse gases under the Bush administration....
Fossil of most primitive 4-legged creature found
AP - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:12 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists unearthed a skull of the most primitive four-legged creature in Earth\'s history, which should help them better understand the evolution of fish to advanced animals that walk on land....
