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Arctic Ocean ice crashes on Alaska shores
Jan 27 2006 10:23PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Ridges of Arctic Ocean sea ice were shoved onto a Barrow road in quantities not seen in nearly three decades. Two ice surges, known to Alaska Natives as ivus, stunned residents who had never seen large blocks of ice rammed ashore.
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FDA weighs listing red dye on some labels
Jan 27 2006 7:34PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Food and cosmetic labels may soon be required to list the presence of widely used red colorings made from insects, but will not have to disclose the dyes' origins, according to a proposed rule made public Friday.
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Scorpion lives for 15 mo. inside fossil
Jan 27 2006 7:23PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A scorpion lived for 15 months without food or water inside the plaster mold of a dinosaur fossil, breaking free only when a scientist broke open the mold.
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Team finds rare sandpipers in Bangladesh
Jan 27 2006 7:21PM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - At least 11 rare spoon-billed sandpipers have been discovered along the coast of Bangladesh, scientists said Friday, raising hopes for the survival of the birds, whose population has dwindled to just 300-350 pairs in the wild.
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Archeologists find ancient ship remains
Jan 27 2006 7:17PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An American-Italian team of archaeologists has found the remains of 4,000-year-old ships that used to carry cargo between Pharaonic Egypt and the mysterious, exotic land of Punt, the Supreme Council of Antiquities has announced.
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Researcher: Pollution limits sun in China
Jan 27 2006 7:08PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - China's skies have darkened over the past 50 years, possibly due to haze resulting from a nine-fold increase in fossil fuel emissions, according to researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Japanese university to discipline chemist
Jan 27 2006 12:10PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's most prestigious university will discipline a chemistry professor after finding that 12 of his experiments could not be reproduced, raising questions about their veracity, a university spokesman said Friday.
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S.Korean officials probe Hwang on research
Jan 27 2006 10:14AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk was questioned Friday by South Korean government authorities for the first time since the scandal erupted over his falsified stem cell research.
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Alaska revives aerial wolf control program
Jan 27 2006 12:12AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The state reinstated a population control program Thursday that allows shooting wolves from the air _ more than a week after a judge ruled it was illegal.
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