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Dawn spacecraft gets cozy with massive asteroid
Monday, August 1st, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Scientists are busy poring over images of the massive asteroid Vesta, the first time it has been photographed up close....
Huntsman: ‘Conservation is conservative’
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Touting a record that could complicate his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman challenged his party Thursday to protect the environment and acknowledge climate change as a real threat....
APNewsBreak: Arctic scientist under investigation
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- Just five years ago, Charles Monnett was one of the scientists whose observation that several polar bears had drowned in the Arctic Ocean helped galvanize the global warming movement....
Titanic explorer details new deep-sea journey
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
MYSTIC, Conn. (AP) -- Oceanographer Robert Ballard, best known for discovering the Titanic wreck, has new plans to plumb the depths of the seas....
Researchers say humans crowded out Neanderthals
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Were the Neanderthals simply crowded out by the ancestors of modern humans?...
Atom smasher closes in on elusive particle
Monday, July 25th, 2011
GRENOBLE, France (AP) -- Scientists will find a long-sought theoretical particle - or rule out that it exists - by the end of 2012, the director of the world's largest atom smasher predicted Monday....
Daunting space task _ send astronauts to asteroid
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
HOUSTON (AP) -- With the space shuttle now history, NASA's next great mission is so audacious, the agency's best minds are wrestling with how to pull it off: Send astronauts to an asteroid in less than 15 years....
Next Mars rover will land in 96-mile-wide crater
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a towering mountain inside a 96-mile-wide crater to search for evidence that the region once had conditions capable of supporting microbial life, project officials announced Friday....
Science materials in Texas get prelim. approval
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- An expected fight over teaching evolution in Texas classrooms fizzled Thursday when the state's Board of Education gave preliminary approval to supplemental science materials for the coming school year and beyond with only minor changes....
Heat and humidity conspire for discomfort, danger
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When it comes to the discomfort and health risks of the current heat wave, it's not just the heat or the humidity - it's both....
Space shuttle comes to ‘final stop’ after 30 years
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Atlantis and four astronauts returned from the International Space Station in triumph Thursday, bringing an end to NASA's 30-year shuttle journey with one last, rousing touchdown that drew cheers and tears....
Teaching evolution up for debate again in Texas
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The debate over teaching evolution in public schools is resurfacing at the Texas State Board of Education....
Future of spaceflight? NASA is outsourcing the job
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
HOUSTON (AP) -- How America gets people and stuff into orbit is about to be outsourced in an out-of-this-world way....
New but tiny moon found circling distant Pluto
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
HOUSTON (AP) -- Distant and tiny Pluto has been hiding something from Earth: another moon....
Russia relishes chances created by end of shuttle
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) -- The mothballing of the space shuttle will be mourned by many astronauts, but Russia is relishing the prospect of serving as the only carrier to the International Space Station....
NASA spacecraft is orbiting massive asteroid
Monday, July 18th, 2011
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft was captured into orbit around the massive asteroid Vesta after a 1.7 billion-mile journey and is preparing to begin a study of a surface that may date to the earliest era of the solar system, the space agency said Monday....
Space shuttle’s science brought payoffs to Earth
Monday, July 18th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Science from the space shuttle helped open Earth's eyes to the cosmos and sister planets. It created perhaps the most detailed topographical map of Earth. And it even is helping doctors understand, and sometimes fix, what's happening in our aging and ailing bodies....
Whither astronauts? Corps shrinks as shuttles stop
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA's mighty astronaut corps has become a shadow of what it once was. And it's only going to get smaller....
Astronauts fix, haul gear on last shuttle flight
Saturday, July 16th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Astronauts kept busy fixing and hauling gear aboard the linked Atlantis and International Space Station on Saturday, as the last shuttle flight drew closer to an end....
Navies to float science robots in pirate waters
Friday, July 15th, 2011
SYDNEY (AP) -- Driven away by Somali pirates, international scientists are asking the Australian and U.S. navies for a favor: deploy 19 robotic instruments in the Indian Ocean to record critical data on climate and monsoon....
Former resident sues to claim Alaska moon rocks
Friday, July 15th, 2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The mystery of Alaska's missing moon rocks has been solved. Getting them back to a state museum likely will depend on a judge....
SpaceX breaks ground on California launch pad
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- An unused pad at the nation's West Coast launch complex is being retrofitted to send up the world's most powerful rocket....
SpaceX to break ground on California launch pad
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- SpaceX is renovating an old launch pad at the Vandenberg Air Force Base for the world's most powerful rocket....
China’s space program shoots for moon, Mars, Venus
Monday, July 11th, 2011
BEIJING (AP) -- This year, a rocket will carry a boxcar-sized module into orbit, the first building block for a Chinese space station. Around 2013, China plans to launch a lunar probe that will set a rover loose on the moon. It wants to put a man on the moon, sometime after 2020....
Astronauts get busy with space station stockpiling
Monday, July 11th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The astronauts on NASA's final space shuttle flight got cracking Monday on all their supply delivery work, successfully hoisting a giant trunk out of Atlantis and attaching it to the International Space Station....
Moon, Mars, Venus: China aims high in space
Monday, July 11th, 2011
BEIJING (AP) -- This year, a rocket will carry a boxcar-sized module into orbit, the first building block for a Chinese space station. Around 2013, China plans to launch a lunar probe that will set a rover loose on the moon. It wants to put a man on the moon, sometime after 2020....
1 final space connection: Atlantis and station
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The space shuttle Atlantis is chasing after the International Space Station for the final time and they'll hook up Sunday morning....
Special wake-up for Atlantis from shuttle workers
Saturday, July 9th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Usually space shuttle astronauts are awakened in orbit by a song sent by a loved one. But not much is routine for the final space shuttle flight, not even a wake-up call....
Montana, Exxon Mobil split over river oil spill
Friday, July 8th, 2011
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer has decided Exxon Mobil and the state don't make good roommates after nearly a week of working together in close quarters to clean up an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude oil released into the Yellowstone River....
Shuttle lifts off for last time; `Light this fire’
Friday, July 8th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- With a cry from its commander to "light this fire one more time," the last shuttle thundered into orbit Friday on a cargo run that will close out three decades of both triumph and tragedy for NASA and usher in a period of uncertainty for America's space program....
Why shuttles are being retired, what’s next
Friday, July 8th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Thirty years of flight by NASA's space shuttles will end once Atlantis returns home from this last mission. The space agency will be looking to deeper space exploration, but the future is still somewhat unclear....
Critics say NASA ignoring its ‘backup plan’ rule
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A somewhat generational battle over NASA's future is escalating even as NASA is about to close the book on the space shuttle era....
Weather worsens for NASA’s last shuttle launch
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The weather isn't cutting NASA any breaks, not even for the last space shuttle launch set for Friday....
Spacecraft eyes raging storm, lightning on Saturn
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It began as a bright white dot in Saturn's northern hemisphere. Within days, the dot grew larger and stormier....
Los Alamos evacuation order lifted; 12,000 go home
Monday, July 4th, 2011
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) -- Honking horns and waving to firefighters, residents of a New Mexico city threatened by a massive wildfire rolled back into Los Alamos nearly a week after flames forced an evacuation and the closure of a nearby major nuclear weapons laboratory....
Warming ocean could melt ice faster than thought
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Warming air from climate change isn't the only thing that will speed ice melting near the poles - so will the warming water beneath the ice, a new study points out....
India’s rural poor give up on power grid, go solar
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
NADA, India (AP) -- Boommi Gowda used to fear the night. Her vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp, so she avoided going outside where king cobras slithered freely and tigers carried off neighborhood dogs....
NASA’s Final 4: Fate grants them farewell flight
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- America's longest space-flying streak ends this week with the smallest crew in decades - three men and a woman who were in high school and college when the first space shuttle soared 30 years ago....
Milestones in 30-year shuttle program
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
NASA's space shuttle flights began three decades ago with Columbia and will end this month with the final voyage of Atlantis and the retirement of the fleet. Between, there were triumphs and tragedies. Some of the milestones of the shuttle era:...
Tribes fear loss of sacred sites near NM fire
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
SANTA CLARA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) -- A mammoth wildfire raging in northern New Mexico is threatening sacred sites of American Indian tribes, after it forced thousands to evacuate from a town and a major nuclear weapons laboratory....
India’s rural poor give up on power grid, go solar
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
NADA, India (AP) -- Boommi Gowda used to fear the night. Her vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp, so she avoided going outside where king cobras slithered freely and tigers carried off neighborhood dogs....
Los Alamos officials plan for return of residents
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) -- With firefighters holding their ground against the largest wildfire ever in New Mexico, officials at the nation's premier nuclear weapons laboratory and in the surrounding city planned for the return of thousands of evacuated employees and residents....
Can I come? Final shuttle crew besieged for favors
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
HOUSTON (AP) -- The four astronauts assigned to NASA's last space shuttle flight can't seem to escape all the fuss and hubbub....
Crews battle NM fire, which pushes into canyon
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) -- Firefighters were confident Thursday they had stopped the advance of a wildfire that headed toward the Los Alamos nuclear lab and the nearby town that now sits empty for the second time in 11 years, even as they battled the blaze that crept into a canyon that descends into the town and parts of the lab....
Can I come? Final shuttle crew besieged for favors
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
HOUSTON (AP) -- The four astronauts assigned to NASA's last space shuttle flight can't seem to escape all the fuss and hubbub....
Planes make rain that wets airport terrain
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The planes make rain that wets airport terrain....
Texas wetland restoration could be model for Gulf
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) -- Brown pelicans, long-necked egrets, flamingo-like roseate spoonbills and squawking seagulls fly lazily around a Texas Gulf Coast island. Nearby, a toddler-aged wetland seeded with marsh grass completes the ecosystem, its thousands of inhabitants unaware their home is a manmade creation dredged from the Houston Ship Channel....
Texas wetland restoration could be model for Gulf
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) -- Brown pelicans, long-necked egrets, flamingo-like roseate spoonbills and squawking seagulls fly lazily around a Texas Gulf Coast island. Nearby, a toddler-aged wetland seeded with marsh grass completes the ecosystem, its thousands of inhabitants unaware their home is a manmade creation dredged from the Houston Ship Channel....
Airplane deployed to monitor air over NM fire
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) -- Los Alamos nuclear laboratory officials say it could be a few days before they'll know the extent of how experiments at the facility that created the first atomic bomb have been affected by a shutdown caused by a 125-square mile wildfire....
APNewsbreak: Solar loan guarantees announced
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Department of Energy has announced nearly $4.5 billion in conditional commitments for loan guarantees for three California solar projects, the agency said....
Scientists discover brightest, earliest quasar
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A team of European astronomers, glimpsing back in time to when the universe was just a youngster, says it has detected the most distant and earliest quasar yet....
New Zealand’s wayward penguin faces long swim home
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A young emperor penguin that turned up on a New Zealand beach won't be getting a free ride all the way back to its Antarctic home - but the bird's human friends will at least help it get a little closer....
Towns near NM fire, nuclear lab wary of smoke
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) -- Residents downwind of a wildfire that is threatening the nation's premier nuclear-weapons laboratory are worried about the potential of a radioactive smoke plume if the flames reach thousands of barrels of waste stored in above-ground tents....
6 station astronauts take shelter from space junk
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The six space station astronauts took shelter in lifeboats Tuesday when a piece of orbiting junk came dangerously close....
NASA confirms July 8 for last shuttle launch
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The last space shuttle launch ever is set for July 8....
Global warming continues as greenhouse gas grows
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The world's climate is not only continuing to warm, it's adding heat-trapping greenhouse gases even faster than in the past, researchers said Tuesday....
NM blaze threatening nuclear lab, sparking fires
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) -- Firefighters worked through the night and into Tuesday hoping to put out spot fires erupting ahead of a wildfire in the mountains above the northern New Mexico town that is home to a government nuclear laboratory....
Wildfire shuts Los Alamos lab, forces evacuations
Monday, June 27th, 2011
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) -- Thousands of residents calmly fled the town that's home to the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory as a rapidly-growing wildfire approached, sending up towering plumes of smoke, raining down ash and charring the fringes of the sprawling lab's property....
Small asteroid swings harmlessly past Earth
Monday, June 27th, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Whew, that was close. An asteroid the size of a tour bus streaked harmlessly past Earth on Monday, passing within 7,600 miles....
Crews fully contain 1 of 3 major Arizona wildfires
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
PHOENIX (AP) -- One of three major wildfires burning in Arizona was declared fully contained Sunday, a second was nearly out, and a third was growing only in a rugged area with only a handful of residents....
Whales, plankton migrate across Northwest Passage
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- When a 43-foot (13-meter) gray whale was spotted off the Israeli town of Herzliya last year, scientists came to a startling conclusion: it must have wandered across the normally icebound route above Canada, where warm weather had briefly opened a clear channel three years earlier....
Whales, plankton migrate across Northwest Passage
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- When a 43-foot (13-meter) gray whale was spotted off the Israeli town of Herzliya last year, scientists came to a startling conclusion: it must have wandered across the normally icebound route above Canada, where warm weather had briefly opened a clear channel three years earlier....
Sportsmen monitor gas drilling in Marcellus Shale
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
WHITELEY, Pa. (AP) -- Fishermen are gearing up and hunters are taking aim - for Marcellus Shale gas drilling....
AP EXCLUSIVE: Power grid change may disrupt clocks
Friday, June 24th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A yearlong experiment with the nation's electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems and some computers - and make plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable coffeemakers run up to 20 minutes fast....
AP EXCLUSIVE: Power grid change may disrupt clocks
Friday, June 24th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A yearlong experiment with the nation's electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems and some computers - and make plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable coffeemakers run up to 20 minutes fast....
NASA prepping next Mars spacecraft for fall launch
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- NASA's next roving spacecraft to the surface of Mars has arrived in Florida after a cross-country flight to undergo final testing....
Image of ancient mammoth or mastodon found on bone
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some of the earliest Americans turn out to have been artists....
Last space shuttle crew practices for July launch
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The four astronauts who will bid goodbye to the space shuttle program are practicing at the launch pad this week for their July 8 send-off....
Eventually in Europe heat will kill more than cold
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new study says one of the few benefits of global warming may eventually melt away in Europe....
Study details significant sea level rise
Monday, June 20th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sea level has been rising significantly over the past century of global warming, according to a study that offers the most detailed look yet at the changes in ocean levels during the last 2,100 years....
Study details significant sea level rise
Monday, June 20th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sea level has been rising significantly over the past century of global warming, according to a study that offers the most detailed look yet at the changes in ocean levels during the last 2,100 years....
Panel: Problems with oceans multiplying, worsening
Monday, June 20th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The health of the world's oceans is declining much faster than originally thought - under siege from pollution, overfishing and other man-made problems all at once - scientists say in a new report....
Scientists ID mysterious flash in distant galaxy
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Astronomers think they have solved the mystery of an extraordinary flash spied in a faraway galaxy, saying it came from a massive black hole that devoured a star after it wandered too close....
Pentagon dreams of Star Trek interstellar travel
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Defense Department first proposed Star Wars. Now it wants Star Trek....
NASA fuels shuttle Atlantis in last-launch test
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA fueled space shuttle Atlantis on Wednesday, but it was only a test leading up to the last flight of the 30-year program....
Engineers troubleshoot instrument on Cassini craft
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- NASA says an instrument aboard the Cassini spacecraft studying Saturn and its moons is temporarily out of service....
More flights halted by ash from Chilean volcano
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The cloud of ash spewing from a volcano in Chile grounded more flights Tuesday in South America, forcing Peru's president-elect to cross a river by boat and threatening to delay the start of the continent's football championship....
Forecast predicts biggest Gulf dead zone ever
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Scientists predict this year's "dead zone" of low-oxygen water in the northern Gulf of Mexico will be the largest in history - about the size of Lake Erie - because of more runoff from the flooded Mississippi River valley....
Chile volcano grounds more flights
Monday, June 13th, 2011
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The drifting plume of ash from Chile's erupting volcano forced new cancelations of dozens of flights on Monday in Argentina, Uruguay and other South American countries, even as airlines in Australia began trying to move a backlog of volcano-stranded passengers....
Correction: Solar Project-Tortoise
Monday, June 13th, 2011
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- In a June 10 article about a solar energy project in Southern California, The Associated Press incorrectly reported the number of megawatts the project will generate. The Ivanpah project in eastern San Bernardino County is expected to generate about 392 megawatts, not 100 megawatts....
Activists search for tuna boats off Libyan coast
Monday, June 13th, 2011
ABOARD THE STEVE IRWIN (AP) -- A shipload of conservation activists is cruising 30 miles (48 kilometers) from the Libyan coast looking for boats illegally fishing for bluefin tuna. Five NATO warships are visible on the horizon....
Chileans living near volcano urged to stay away
Sunday, June 12th, 2011
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Chilean officials ordered most residents already evacuated from homes near an erupting volcano to stay in shelters and with family and friends Sunday due to the threat of deadly landslides. The ash spread across the Pacific, prompting authorities to suspend flights in Australia and New Zealand....
Scientists probe DNA of E. coli for outbreak clues
Sunday, June 12th, 2011
LONDON (AP) -- Scientists are quickly combing the DNA of the killer bacteria behind the world's worst E. coli outbreak to find clues about how to treat patients and prevent future epidemics....
Construction to resume on parts of solar project
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Construction can resume on a massive Southern California solar energy project after wildlife officials determined it will not jeopardize the threatened desert tortoise, federal officials said Friday....
Scientists: ‘Super’ wheat to boost food security
Friday, June 10th, 2011
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Scientists say they're close to producing new "super varieties" of wheat that will resist a virulent fungus while boosting yields up to 15 percent, potentially easing a deadly threat to the world's food supply....
World leaders adopt new targets to combat HIV
Friday, June 10th, 2011
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- World leaders on Friday declared HIV "an unprecedented human catastrophe" and adopted new targets to combat the epidemic, including providing drug treatment to 15 million people by 2015,...
Ocean science satellite blasts off from California
Friday, June 10th, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An international satellite rocketed into low-Earth orbit Friday on a mission to track changes in the amount of salt in the upper levels of the world's oceans....
Space station gets 3 new tenants from 3 countries
Friday, June 10th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- It's a full house again at the International Space Station....
2 new elements officially added to periodic table
Friday, June 10th, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) -- They exist for only seconds at most in real life, but they've gained immortality in chemistry: Two new elements have been added to the periodic table....
UN chief calls for global action to end AIDS
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for global action Wednesday to put an end to AIDS by 2020 and relegate the killer disease to the history books....
Audit: Mars mission faces hurdles before launch
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NASA's next-generation rover to the surface of Mars, which is already overbudget and behind schedule, faces significant hurdles as it races to the launch pad for a November liftoff, an internal audit released Wednesday found....
What’s that tree? Try Smithsonian’s new app to see
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you've ever wondered what type of tree was nearby but didn't have a guide book, a new smartphone app allows users with no formal training to satisfy their curiosity and contribute to science at the same time....
2 new elements officially added to periodic table
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) -- They exist for only seconds at most in real life, but they've gained immortality in chemistry: Two new elements have been added to the periodic table....
Audit: Hurdles remain for upcoming Mars mission
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A new report says significant challenges remain before NASA can launch its next rover to Mars later this year....
Center opens to protect rare turtle in Cambodia
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
SAMBOUR, Cambodia (AP) -- An extremely rare soft-shell turtle species has a new, protected home in Cambodia....
Solar flare erupts, creating spectacular images
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) -- A medium-sized solar flare has erupted from the sun in an impressive display captured by NASA cameras. Scientists say that the event won't have a significant impact on Earth....
Scientists unveil new mobile app to identify trees
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you've ever wondered what type of tree was nearby but didn't have a guide book, a new smartphone app allows users with no formal training to satisfy their curiosity and contribute to science at the same time....
Russian spacecraft blasts off for space station
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) -- A Russian Soyuz craft lit up the starry skies of the southern Kazakh steppe early Wednesday as it blasted off to carry a three-man crew for a mission to the International Space Station that will take in the U.S. shuttle's farewell voyage....
Heated fight breaks out over E. coli farm payments
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Big fruit and vegetable producers Spain, Italy and France angrily demanded compensation for farmers who have been blindsided by huge losses in the E. coli outbreak, forcing the EU farm chief to increase his offer of aid....