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Korean scientist values religious groups
Jun 6 2005 10:31PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean stem-cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk said Tuesday that religious groups' opposition to his research helps keep his work on track toward its aim of treating patients with incurable diseases and insures cloning technology won't be abused.
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Dolphins protect their snouts with sponges
Jun 6 2005 9:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A group of dolphins living off the coast of Australia apparently teach their offspring to protect their snouts with sponges while foraging for food in the sea floor. Researchers say it appears to be a cultural behavior passed on from mother to daughter, a first for animals of this type, although such learning has been seen in other species.
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Semifinalists named in desert robot race
Jun 6 2005 8:11PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Let the battle of the machines begin again. Forty self-navigating robots were chosen Monday to compete in the Oct. 8 sequel to last year's first-ever robot race across the Mojave Desert.
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Groups seek more protection for shorebird
Jun 6 2005 8:10PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Environmentalists on Tuesday will urge the governors of New Jersey and Delaware to enforce strong new protections for a migratory shorebird threatened with extinction.
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Groups seek tougher red snapper measures
Jun 6 2005 8:08PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Federal regulators have done too little to save the overfished red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico, a new lawsuit by environmental groups alleges.
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Va. scientists go abroad to ID skeleton
Jun 6 2005 8:06PM (CT)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Virginia preservationists are nearing the end of a two-year quest to determine whether a skeleton discovered at the site of the Jamestown settlement is that of one its founders.
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Lynx making a comeback in Minnesota
Jun 6 2005 8:05PM (CT)
BRIMSON, Minn. (AP) - Lynx No. 13 growled a warning at the researchers who came to weigh and tag her four kittens. The mother lynx watched from 20 feet away, never coming closer but never leaving, as the scientists poked and prodded the 3-week-old kittens, who received ear tags as part of a study that could determine the fate of her species in Minnesota.
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Red Tide hits Martha's Vineyard shellfish
Jun 6 2005 6:47PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Officials closed two areas off Martha's Vineyard to shellfishing on Monday as the largest red tide outbreak in decades continued to spread through New England waters.
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Battle threatens Calif. stem cell agency
Jun 6 2005 10:44AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California's effort to become a world leader in human embryonic stem cell research has long been supported by a coterie of well-heeled patient advocates who found their champion in an obscure state senator from Sacramento.
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Experts gather to discuss Antarctic issues
Jun 6 2005 9:41AM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - More than 300 scientists, experts and government representatives gathered in Stockholm on Monday to discuss the environmental issues facing the South Pole, and the effects global warming and increased tourism may have on the icy continent.
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Mars rover frees itself from sandy dune
Jun 6 2005 6:50AM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The Mars rover Opportunity resumed rolling freely across the Martian surface Saturday after scientists freed it from a sand dune where it had been mired for nearly five weeks, NASA officials said.
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