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Brain scans may be used as lie detectors
Jan 28 2006 10:51PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Picture this: Your boss is threatening to fire you because he thinks you stole company property. He doesn't believe your denials. Your lawyer suggests you deny it one more time _ in a brain scanner that will show you're telling the truth.
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Deep-sea drill set for climate research
Jan 28 2006 7:13PM (CT)
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) - The CHIKYU is studded with superlatives. Completed last year, the ship houses the world's biggest deep-sea drill, sports a high-tech floating laboratory and boasts a $500 million price tag.
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Adirondacks seen as dark skygazer paradise
Jan 28 2006 7:10PM (CT)
TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. (AP) - High altitude, low population and little light pollution make the Adirondacks a stargazer's dream location. Look up from New York's northern forest and with the naked eye watch a cascade of stars. With a good telescope, see the rings of Saturn in color.
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Scientists find frozen methane gas deposit
Jan 28 2006 6:26PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Scientists have discovered an undersea deposit of frozen methane just off the Southern California coast, but whether it can be harnessed as a potential energy source is unknown.
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Alaska volcano erupting again
Jan 28 2006 2:34PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A volcano on an uninhabited Alaskan island was erupting again after 10 days of relative calm.
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Egyptian statue met undignified end
Jan 28 2006 2:22PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - In life, King Tut's grandmother was a powerful woman in ancient Egypt, but after death a monument to her met an undignified end.
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Arctic Ocean ice surges onto Alaskan shore
Jan 28 2006 4:52AM (CT)
BARROW, Alaska (AP) - Ridges of sea ice packing car-sized chunks of the cold stuff slammed onto a road in this northern Alaskan town in quantities not seen in nearly three decades.
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