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Rare chatty songbird spotted in Calif.
Jun 16 2005 9:31PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A chatty songbird thought to have disappeared from the Central Valley 60 years ago has been spotted nesting in a patch of restored habitat along the San Joaquin River.
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Archaeologists extract DNA from skeleton
Jun 16 2005 8:42PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Archaeologists have successfully extracted DNA from skeleton remains under an English church that could prove a skeleton found near Jamestown belongs to one of its founders, the Church of England announced Thursday.
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Exhibit shows U.S., Russian space ventures
Jun 16 2005 8:14PM (CT)
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - A new gallery that opens Saturday at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center tells the story of early ventures into space from both the American and Russian perspective in side-by-side exhibits.
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Retired mechanic finds new flower species
Jun 16 2005 8:09PM (CT)
BAUXITE, Ark. (AP) - Hiking in the Ouachita Mountains one day, retired mechanic John Pelton's eye caught a pink flower that he hadn't noticed before. The man with a passion for plant life couldn't figure out just what kind of flower he had found in Saline County.
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Future giant laser threatened by cuts
Jun 16 2005 8:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A giant laser being built to simulate the explosion of a hydrogen bomb is facing funding cuts in the Senate that supporters say could kill the project after $2.8 billion has been spent on it.
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NASA returns Discovery to launch pad
Jun 16 2005 8:08PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA returned the space shuttle Discovery to the launch pad Wednesday for the first mission since the Columbia disaster, after replacing the external fuel tank with a new model designed to prevent dangerous ice buildup.
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Rare catfish released into Cambodia river
Jun 16 2005 9:44AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Four endangered giant catfish were released Wednesday into the Mekong River after seven years of captivity in hopes of boosting the population of the species, which has fallen sharply in the last two decades.
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