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Church of England OKs Jamestown DNA sample
Apr 20 2005 10:27PM (CT)
JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) - The Church of England on Wednesday gave permission for archeologists to dig under a church floor and remove DNA from 400-year-old skeletal remains to determine if the Jamestown settlement's founder was buried just outside the 17th century fort.
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Archaeologists find ancient Egyptian tomb
Apr 20 2005 8:14PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Archaeologists digging in a 5,600-year-old funeral site in southern Egypt unearthed seven corpses believed to date to the era, as well as an intact figure of a cow's head carved from flint.
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SpaceShipOne inventor says space in reach
Apr 20 2005 8:12PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The inventor of the first private spaceship predicted Wednesday that commercial manned space flight would move quickly from joyrides for millionaires to the general public and spawn advances not yet imagined _ much as early computers opened the way for the Internet.
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Expert: Apes may be key to human nature
Apr 20 2005 8:11PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh sounds like a proud mother when she speaks about her brood of bonobos, eight ultra-intelligent apes that will take part in unique language research meant to shed light on their nature and maybe our own.
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NASA delays first post-Columbia launch
Apr 20 2005 8:10PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA pushed back next month's launch of Discovery by a full week, saying Wednesday it needs more time to complete testing and engineering work for the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster.
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NASA spots possible asteroid belt
Apr 20 2005 8:10PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A NASA telescope has spotted what appears to be an asteroid belt circling a star similar to the sun, a finding that could help astronomers in the hunt for Earth-like planets.
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NASA spots possible asteroid belt
Apr 20 2005 8:04PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A NASA telescope has spotted what appears to be an asteroid belt circling a star similar to the sun, a finding that could help astronomers in the hunt for Earth-like planets.
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Forests grow, owls decline under plan
Apr 20 2005 7:55AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A decade after the Clinton administration reduced logging in national forests in the Northwest, scientists have concluded the forests are growing, but the population of the threatened northern spotted owl has declined.
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Four more Canada lynx released in Colorado
Apr 20 2005 7:38AM (CT)
CREEDE, Colo. (AP) - The audience of about 30 people watching four Canada lynx dash from their metal carriers and scamper through knee-deep snow on the edge of the Weminuche wilderness Tuesday included several federal scientists and officials.
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Report: Organism a threat to Great Lakes
Apr 20 2005 5:05AM (CT)
MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) - Oceangoing freighters that claim to be empty of ballast water before entering the Great Lakes routinely carry organisms that endanger the water bodies, a new report shows.
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Endangered whooping cranes produce egg
Apr 20 2005 4:13AM (CT)
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (AP) - A pair of whooping cranes has produced what's thought to be the first egg from an experimental flock _ a big step for the endangered species.
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