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Inflatable spacecraft beams back images
Jul 13 2006 10:00PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An unmanned, inflatable spacecraft launched by a Las Vegas real estate mogul has beamed back the first images since it slipped into orbit and expanded itself.
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Meerkats offer paws-on lessons to young
Jul 13 2006 9:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's hardly algebra or physics, but meerkats have been observed actively teaching their young, something not often seen in animals in the wild.
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Massive chunk falls from Eiger mountain
Jul 13 2006 9:14PM (CT)
GRINDELWALD, Switzerland (AP) - A large section of stone broke away and tumbled down a famous Swiss Alps mountain Thursday, shrouding a resort in dust but causing no injuries, officials said.
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Shuttle crew to check wing for damage
Jul 13 2006 8:19PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Discovery's crew will check the shuttle's wing for damage from space junk or tiny meteorites in a first-of-its-kind procedure Friday, two days after a spacewalking astronaut accidentally let go of a spatula that now circles Earth with other orbital trash.
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Finches on Galapagos Islands evolving
Jul 13 2006 8:17PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Finches on the Galapagos Islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop the concept of evolution are now helping confirm it _ by evolving.
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Photo in Calif. could be world's largest
Jul 13 2006 8:12PM (CT)
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - What is believed to be the world's largest photo was successfully created in a hangar that had been converted into a massive camera at the former El Toro Marine Corps base.
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Mountain lions and fear growing out West
Jul 13 2006 7:13PM (CT)
EVERGREEN, Colo. (AP) - Carrie Ann Warner has repeatedly called authorities about the stalker that has peered into her son's bedroom window at night, killed the family cat and even chased the family into their home in the wooded hills west of Denver.
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Utah dinosaur quarry visitor center closes
Jul 13 2006 7:12PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A National Park Service visitor center that was built over a dinosaur bone quarry has been deemed unsafe and closed indefinitely.
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'Ferocious fossils' found in Australia
Jul 13 2006 7:12PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Before there were cuddly koalas, hoards of flesh-eating kangaroos, "demon ducks," and marsupial lions roamed Australia's Outback, according to recent fossil discoveries by paleontologists.
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Barbaro's condition doomed Secretarait
Jul 13 2006 4:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The painful hoof disease affecting Barbaro is no stranger to horse racing fans: Secretariat, the 1973 Triple Crown winner, was euthanized because of it in 1989.
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Italian scientists exhume body of castrato
Jul 13 2006 11:27AM (CT)
MILAN, Italy (AP) - Scientists have exhumed the body of the legendary 18th-century opera singer Farinelli to learn more about the castrati, male singers neutered in childhood to preserve their high-pitched voices.
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