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Hundreds of dead seals wash up on shore
May 2 2007 10:52PM (CT)
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - Hundreds of dead seals have washed up on Kazakhstan's Caspian Sea shoreline in the past several days, bringing the total number of the animals found dead along the shoreline in recent weeks to 832, the Emergencies Agency said Wednesday.
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Scan of mummified child done in Pa.
May 2 2007 10:50PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A CT scan of an ancient Egyptian mummy revealed a spearlike object in the upper spine and skull, but scientists say they don't know whether that's what killed the child.
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Scan of mummified child done in Pa.
May 2 2007 10:50PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A CT scan of an ancient Egyptian mummy revealed a spearlike object in the upper spine and skull, but scientists say they don't know whether that's what killed the child.
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Scan of mummified child done in Pa.
May 2 2007 10:50PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A CT scan of an ancient Egyptian mummy revealed a spearlike object in the upper spine and skull, but scientists say they don't know whether that's what killed the child.
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Beer maker, scientists to create energy
May 2 2007 9:50PM (CT)
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Scientists and Australian beer maker Foster's are teaming up to generate clean energy from brewery waste water _ by using sugar-consuming bacteria.
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Honeybee die-off threatens food supply
May 2 2007 9:49PM (CT)
BELTSVILLE, Md. (AP) - Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet.
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Honeybee die-off threatens food supply
May 2 2007 9:49PM (CT)
BELTSVILLE, Md. (AP) - Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet.
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Team: Music in 'Da Vinci Code' chapel
May 2 2007 9:48PM (CT)
ROSLIN, Scotland (AP) - Like a plot from "The Da Vinci Code," a team of code breakers claims to have found music hidden for 500 years in intricate carvings at the church where author Dan Brown set the climax of the best-selling book.
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Team: Music in 'Da Vinci Code' chapel
May 2 2007 9:48PM (CT)
ROSLIN, Scotland (AP) - Like a plot from "The Da Vinci Code," a team of code breakers claims to have found music hidden for 500 years in intricate carvings at the church where author Dan Brown set the climax of the best-selling book.
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Team: Music in 'Da Vinci Code' chapel
May 2 2007 9:48PM (CT)
ROSLIN, Scotland (AP) - Like a plot from "The Da Vinci Code," a team of code breakers claims to have found music hidden for 500 years in intricate carvings at the church where author Dan Brown set the climax of the best-selling book.
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Butterfly won't get species protection
May 2 2007 9:48PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A butterfly found only at a popular Nevada off-road vehicle site won't receive federal protection as a threatened or endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided Wednesday.
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Scientists, students spar over bullfrog
May 2 2007 3:06PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The bullfrog sounds off with its resonant croak at ponds across North Carolina in the summer, and some young students believe its statewide presence should make it the official state amphibian. But scientists figure there are better choices out there.
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Large gopher tortoise dies from injuries
May 2 2007 2:55PM (CT)
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - A gopher tortoise described as the largest on record died from injuries suffered at a construction site, the Humane Society of the United States said Wednesday.
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Web abuzz on bee weirdness
May 2 2007 2:08PM (CT)
BELTSVILLE, Md. (AP) - The answer to what happened to America's vanishing honeybees is simple, a caller told entomologist May Berenbaum: Bee rapture. They were called away to heaven.
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Green lobby pushes renewable energy
May 2 2007 12:26PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - There's no shortage of ideas for high-tech measures to combat global warming: develop clean biofuels made of corn or palm oil, build more nuclear power stations or bury harmful carbon emissions in underground vaults.
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Green lobby pushes renewable energy
May 2 2007 12:26PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - There's no shortage of ideas for high-tech measures to combat global warming: develop clean biofuels made of corn or palm oil, build more nuclear power stations or bury harmful carbon emissions in underground vaults.
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Scientists protest new reading of ESA
May 2 2007 1:36AM (CT)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - More than three dozen scientists have signed a letter to protest a new Bush administration interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, saying it jeopardizes animals such as wolves and grizzly bears.
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