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Gene project aims to trace human migration
Apr 12 2005 11:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers are aiming to learn more about how the Earth was populated by collecting and analyzing genetic samples from 100,000 people around the globe.
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Prototype of unmanned airship is unveiled
Apr 12 2005 11:18PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A communications company unveiled a prototype of an unmanned airship that would function as a relay platform while floating in the stratosphere some 65,000 feet above service areas.
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Activity changes dome of Mount St. Helens
Apr 12 2005 8:42PM (CT)
MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. (AP) - Surging seismic activity at Mount St. Helens has changed the whale-back shape of the volcano's emerging new dome, leaving it more like the back of a stegosaurus _ a dinosaur with bony plates of armor along its spine.
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Wal-Mart to fund wildlife habitat
Apr 12 2005 8:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, pledged Tuesday to spend $35 million compensating for wildlife habitat lost nationwide beneath its corporate "footprint."
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Armor used by Jamestown colonists found
Apr 12 2005 8:41PM (CT)
JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) - Archaeologists have discovered a piece of flexible armor used by Jamestown colonists to protect themselves against Indian attacks.
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U.N. presses India to save tigers
Apr 12 2005 8:39PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Even in their own reserves, they are rampantly poached for their "lucky" collar bones, fashionable skins and decorative claws. When they flee onto human territory, they are poisoned, electrocuted, shot or trapped. There is nowhere left for India's dwindling tiger population to turn.
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Exhibit aims to portray real Washington
Apr 12 2005 8:39PM (CT)
MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) - The nation's Founding Father had a crooked face _ his chin receding on the left and protruding on the right _ the likely result of significant tooth loss, an anthropology professor has concluded.
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Mo. pups could boost gray wolf population
Apr 12 2005 12:44PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The endangered Mexican gray wolf population could swell by 10 percent this spring, after two wolves in captivity gave birth this weekend, and three more are expecting.
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Russia, France sign launch pad agreement
Apr 12 2005 12:05PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian and French space officials signed a $448 million deal Monday to build a new South American launch pad for sending Russian rockets into space.
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Hawaii neighborhood unites against frogs
Apr 12 2005 10:38AM (CT)
MAKAWAO, Hawaii (AP) - A group of neighbors in a rural Upcountry Maui community has banded together to rid their yards of annoying coqui frogs.
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Researchers study toxic newts, snakes
Apr 12 2005 9:25AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah State University reachers who've been following the evolutionary battle between toxic newts and the garter snakes that prey upon them have discovered the molecular basis of the snake's defense against the poison.
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Study to see if fish farms attrack sharks
Apr 12 2005 9:02AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Thanks to the movie monsters, every swimmer is keenly aware that the ocean is filled with more than harmless little fish. And Leeward Oahu residents say they have seen more sharks since a fish farm took up residence about two miles offshore at Ewa Beach almost six years ago, said William Aila, a resident and fisherman.
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University to research global warming
Apr 12 2005 9:01AM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A new federally funded center will give the University of Kansas a prominent role in researching global warming, the melting of polar ice caps and their effects on the world's climate.
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Global-warming experts address 100 loggers
Apr 12 2005 7:00AM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Some experts say global warming is changing wooded regions across the nation, and Northwest timber industry workers are among those following the phenomenon amid concern it could eventually affect their livelihoods.
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Scientists work on shuttle wing sensors
Apr 12 2005 6:59AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are helping NASA ensure the safety of the space shuttle Discovery. The scientists are preparing a new network of sensors embedded in the shuttle's wing. They will detect anything the strikes the wing and let astronauts know the severity of the damage, said Sandia engineer Ken Gwinn.
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Low-cost satellite boosted into orbit
Apr 12 2005 6:59AM (CT)
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - A low-cost U.S. Air Force research satellite was boosted into orbit Monday by a rocket built from the engines of a decommissioned missile and Pegasus boosters.
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University gets $19M to study polar ice
Apr 12 2005 6:59AM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - The University of Kansas will be home to a center studying the melting of polar ice caps, financed by the largest federal grant a Kansas university has ever received, officials said Monday.
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Engineers redesign roads to save moose
Apr 12 2005 6:58AM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - At night on a dark country road, all that the headlights catch are the shadowy legs the size of tree trunks rising out of the pavement. Standing six feet at the shoulder, weighing up to 1,000 pounds, with massive antlers more than five feet across, moose tower over automobiles and have no fear of them.
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