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Report suggests cancer in Tasmanian devils
Feb 2 2006 11:06PM (CT)
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - A mysterious illness that has killed tens of thousands of Tasmanian devils is caused by cancerous tumors that are spread by ferocious squabbling among the carnivorous marsupials, according to research published Thursday.
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Probe finds comets have ice on surface
Feb 2 2006 11:06PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Deep Impact space probe found the first evidence that comets have ice on their dusty surfaces, raising the possibility that comets may have delivered life-giving water to a primeval Earth, NASA scientists said Thursday.
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Government approves infectious-disease lab
Feb 2 2006 8:17PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Boston University won final federal approval Thursday for a controversial plan to build a research laboratory in the city's South End that would handle some of the world's most dangerous and exotic germs.
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Sens. seek stricter global warming curbs
Feb 2 2006 7:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - New Mexico's two senators laid out a path Thursday toward creating what they hope will become the nation's first mandatory program for trading greenhouse gases in the marketplace.
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Groups prod EPA for new diesel controls
Feb 2 2006 6:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trains and boats powered by diesel-fueled engines cause about 4,400 premature deaths, nearly 5,700 nonfatal heart attacks and more than 73,000 asthma attacks in children, says a study by associations representing air pollution control officials.
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Government revises tornado ratings scale
Feb 2 2006 6:28PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The government is changing how it categorizes tornadoes after finding that it doesn't take 300 mph winds to disintegrate homes and turn cars into missiles _ a 200 mph twister can do just as much damage.
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Washington rainy streak good for frogs
Feb 2 2006 6:14PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - To like the weather over the past month and a half, some might say, you'd have to be a toad. Not true. You could also be a frog, salamander or other amphibian, judging by the way the critters have been breeding, wildlife experts say.
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Panel leaders flunk U.S. ocean policies
Feb 2 2006 5:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Leaders of two expert commissions that spent years examining the nation's ocean policies give the Congress, Bush administration and governors a near-failing grade for not moving quickly enough to address hundreds of their recommendations.
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Blog follows probe of submerged volcano
Feb 2 2006 5:55PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The public can follow along on the Web as a team of scientists explore a massive volcano that's submerged thousands of feet under water in Monterey Bay.
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La Nina to return; more hurricanes feared
Feb 2 2006 4:50PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Climate experts Thursday confirmed the start of La Nina _ a mild cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean that often coincides with stronger and more numerous hurricanes, a wetter Pacific Northwest and a drier South.
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Reports: Prosecutors raid Hwang's home
Feb 2 2006 12:42PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean prosecutors raided the home of disgraced stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk Thursday in their investigation into his research fraud, local media reported.
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