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NASA's comet-busting spacecraft on course
Mar 25 2005 11:23PM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is on course for a July 4 encounter with comet Tempel 1, but mission officials are trying to determine why one of the probe's telescopes has not focused properly, the space agency said Friday.
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UConn said close to creating stem cells
Mar 25 2005 8:11PM (CT)
STORRS, Conn. (AP) - As lawmakers consider plans to make the state a hotbed for stem cell research, the University of Connecticut has announced it is poised to become one of the first colleges in the country to launch a program for making human embryonic stem cells.
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Experts: Central U.S. could have quakes
Mar 25 2005 8:09PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Two earthquake experts say the quake that produced the deadly tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December should remind residents of the central United States that they live in an area where a devastating quake could occur.
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Wash. workers find apparent mammoth bones
Mar 25 2005 8:06PM (CT)
SELAH, Wash. (AP) - A construction crew has unearthed what appear to be mammoth bones at least 10,000 years old north of this central Washington town and northeast of Yakima, the company owner says.
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Octopuses seen walking from predators
Mar 25 2005 8:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Octopuses, known for using camouflage to avoid predators, have been observed apparently trying to sneak away by walking on two arms while pretending to be a bunch of algae. Two kinds of octopus were seen to use different ways of walking along the sea floor, researchers were reporting in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
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Scientists recover tissue from T. Rex
Mar 25 2005 8:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Museum to show dinosaurs being taken apart
Mar 25 2005 8:49AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - What could be better than seeing the first tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered? Watching it being taken apart. Visitors to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which has one of the oldest and largest dinosaur collections in the nation, will be able to watch as the museum's collection of fossilized dinosaur skeletons are taken apart before a renovation of the museum's almost century-old Dinosaur Hall.
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Weather service to keep hurricane 'line'
Mar 25 2005 8:49AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The National Weather Service will keep using a "skinny black line" to project hurricane tracks on forecast maps although some officials worry people in wider warning areas on either side may fail to take precautions.
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Experts warn ships may bring lake invaders
Mar 25 2005 8:48AM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Ships navigating the St. Lawrence Seaway may carry more than coal and grain through the Great Lakes, say environmentalists, who warned Thursday about potential secondary "cargo" like killer shrimp or monkey gobies.
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U.S. to start tracking 'greenhouse' gases
Mar 25 2005 8:48AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government will start keeping track of all the "greenhouse" gases that farmers and foresters voluntarily reduce to help combat global warming.
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