|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NASA launches robotic test craft
Apr 15 2005 9:41PM (CT)
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - A NASA robotic spacecraft equipped with navigational computers and sensors was launched into orbit Friday to rendezvous with a Pentagon satellite without the help of astronauts or human controllers.
|
|
|
Astronomer to use the Hubble telescope
Apr 15 2005 9:21PM (CT)
HILO, Hawaii (AP) - An astronomy professor at the University of Hawaii-Hilo will use the Hubble Space Telescope to study three giant galaxies whose immense gravitational pull has corralled their smaller galactic neighbors, the university said Friday.
|
|
|
UVM researcher helps create healthier cow
Apr 15 2005 8:55PM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A University of Vermont professor has helped to create a healthier cow. The U.S. Agriculture Department has cloned a cow that is resistant to one form of mastitis, a common bacterial infection of cows' udders that costs the national dairy industry nearly $2 billion a year.
|
|
|
Canadian artist detained over rocks
Apr 15 2005 8:53PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A Canadian artist was detained on Easter Island and accused of removing rocks of archaeological value in order to make a land sculpture, authorities said Friday.
|
|
|
Study: Greenhouse gas limits affordable
Apr 15 2005 8:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mandatory limits on all U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases would not significantly affect average economic growth rates across the country through 2025, the government says.
|
|
|
Whale-dolphin hybrid has baby wholphin
Apr 15 2005 8:50PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - The only whale-dolphin mix in captivity has given birth to a playful female calf, officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii said Thursday.
|
|
|
Russian rocket takes off for space station
Apr 15 2005 8:49PM (CT)
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) - A Russian, an American and an Italian soared into space atop a Soyuz rocket Friday, greeting the dawn over the Central Asian steppes as they hurtled toward an orbital rendezvous with the International Space Station.
|
|
|
Scientists find T.rex relative in Georgia
Apr 15 2005 8:49PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Paleontologists have identified a new dinosaur species, an early relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that probably roamed what is now the Southeastern United States about 77 million years ago.
|
|
|
Mercury in fish prompt broader N.Y. ban
Apr 15 2005 8:49PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The state Health Department on Friday warned women of childbearing age and children younger than 15 to avoid eating most species of fish caught anywhere in the Adirondacks and Catskills. The advisory is one of the most expansive ever in New York regarding mercury found in fish.
|
|
|
Second litter of cheetahs born at D.C. zoo
Apr 15 2005 4:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Five months after a cheetah gave birth at the National Zoo for the first time in its history, another one of the speedy cats has had a litter.
|
|
|
NASA fuels space shuttle for daylong test
Apr 15 2005 12:15PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA fueled a space shuttle for the first time in more than two years Thursday, and Discovery's redesigned external tank aced the crucial prelaunch test.
|
|
|
Eggs hatching for Aurora the octopus
Apr 15 2005 6:49AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE (AP) - Aurora _ with all eight of her arms _ held tight to her dream of motherhood. The aging Giant Pacific octopus, a resident of the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, embraced her maternal instinct and was rewarded this week as her eggs finally began hatching.
|
|
|
Indonesia scientists monitor 3 volcanoes
Apr 15 2005 6:49AM (CT)
MOUNT TALANG, Indonesia (AP) - Scientists on Thursday were closely monitoring three volcanoes that have rumbled into life _ activity they link to December's massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra Island and the powerful temblors that followed.
|
|
|
Groups seek tougher cruise ship waste laws
Apr 15 2005 6:48AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The cruise industry has gotten so big that all its ships together could hold each of Miami's 360,000 residents with room to spare. And just like cities, cruise lines have to deal with a nasty problem: the millions of gallons of sewage those people produce.
|
|
|
Feds scale back endangered toad protections
Apr 15 2005 6:48AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal wildlife officials scaled back habitat protections for the endangered arroyo toad in five Southern California counties in part because of the costly impact on development and water deliveries.
|
|
|
Columbia River spring salmon at new lows
Apr 15 2005 6:47AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Usually by now the Columbia River's spring chinook salmon are heading upstream over fish ladders in the tens of thousands to spawn. But not this year.
|
|
|
Baby rhino named for designer Marc Ecko
Apr 15 2005 6:47AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Designer Marc Ecko, who made a rhino logo into a fashion statement, now has a zoo rhino named in his honor. A 3-month-old Indian rhino born at the San Diego Wild Animal Park has been named "Ecko" in honor of the designer, who donated $150,000 to launch the International Rhino Foundation's project to save the species, park officials announced Thursday.
|
|
|
|
|
|