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Judge: DOE must remove nuclear waste
May 25 2006 11:35PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A federal judge ruled Thursday that the U.S. Energy Department must remove all high-level radioactive waste stored at federal nuclear research compound in southeastern Idaho.
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NASA extends satellite's mission to 2010
May 25 2006 11:26PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - NASA has extended the mission of a satellite probing the least-studied region of the Earth's atmosphere through 2010.
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Egyptian sarcophagus controversy ends well
May 25 2006 10:01PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A utility executive will give an Egyptian sarcophagus to the Field Museum after a sudden concern over the artifact briefly threatened to derail the long-standing relationship between the museum and Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
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Probe films underwater volcanic eruption
May 25 2006 9:49PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A team of Japanese and U.S. researchers said Thursday an unmanned probe got within feet of a violent underwater eruption in the Pacific Ocean, returning with the clearest footage ever captured of seismic activity under the sea.
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Chesapeake Bay underwater grasses rebound
May 25 2006 7:30PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay were more plentiful again last year, with the important habitat-providing plants now covering about double the acreage they did when the survey began in 1984.
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Scientists ponder invisibility cloak
May 25 2006 7:27PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Imagine an invisibility cloak that works just like the one Harry Potter inherited from his father. Researchers in England and the United States think they know how to do that. They are laying out the blueprint and calling for help in developing the exotic materials needed to build a cloak.
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Almost all tropical forests unprotected
May 25 2006 7:26PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Almost all the world's tropical forests remain effectively unprotected even though two-thirds have been designated for some sort of preservation over the past two decades, according to a report released Thursday.
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Deserts expanding with jet stream shift
May 25 2006 7:20PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Deserts in the American Southwest and around the globe are creeping toward heavily populated areas as the jet streams shift, researchers reported Thursday.
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In surprise, mice get trait without gene
May 25 2006 7:20PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a startling exception to classical genetics, mice in a lab experiment have inherited an effect of an aberrant gene without inheriting the gene itself.
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Park a marriage of recreation, filtration
May 25 2006 7:20PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A small pocket of land on the banks of the Los Angeles River is working overtime, providing both recreational space to a crowded urban area and acting as a filter for garbage that would otherwise end up in the water.
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Pogo the gorilla, 48, dies at Calif. zoo
May 25 2006 4:17PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Pogo, one of the world's oldest captive gorillas, died at the San Francisco Zoo with a tummy full of grapes and her cherished baby ape doll close by.
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Fla. angler lands what may be record shark
May 25 2006 3:03PM (CT)
BOCA GRANDE, Fla. (AP) - Fishing Capt. Bucky Dennis has been trying to catch a record hammerhead shark for 10 years. He may have finally succeeded.
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North Korea slowly going digital
May 25 2006 12:47PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea is embracing the digital age, encouraging its citizens to go online and even boasting about the popularity of that obligatory electronic accessory in the 21st century: MP3 players.
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