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NASA monitors leaky pipe on space shuttle
Jul 14 2006 11:55PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - While astronauts set a record for using robotics in space, NASA engineers on Friday focused on a slow leak aboard space shuttle Discovery that if it worsens could cause a first-of-its-kind shutdown of one of three hydraulic systems during Monday's landing attempt.
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Mount St. Helens to be reopened to climbers
Jul 14 2006 7:30PM (CT)
MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. (AP) - For all the talks interpretive guide Nick Racine has given to visitors about this volcano, standing on the crater rim and watching it pump out tons of rock left him nearly speechless.
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FDA panel recommends against 'bionic eye'
Jul 14 2006 7:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the 1970s TV show "The Six Million Dollar Man," the strapping young astronaut got a bionic eye. A U.S. company had hoped that next year that might be your grandmother. Not so fast, a federal advisory panel said Friday.
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Scientists: Hunley's hatch was unlocked
Jul 14 2006 7:29PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Scientists say they may have found an important clue in the mystery of why the Confederate submarine Hunley sank 140 years ago after making history by sinking an enemy warship in battle.
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Tyrannosaurs faced midlife crisis too
Jul 14 2006 7:28PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Even the powerful tyrannosaurs seem to have encountered a midlife crisis. Once they made it to about age 2 they could take on just about any other predator and had very little mortality until they reached sexual maturity in their teens, researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
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Researchers to study Kodiak bear diet
Jul 14 2006 7:25PM (CT)
KODIAK, Alaska (AP) - Researchers plan to set out Saturday for a monthlong excursion to study the plants that affect the eating habits of brown bears on Kodiak Island.
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Government orders better nuclear scanners
Jul 14 2006 5:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nuclear detectors that shouldn't be triggered by cat litter and other harmless materials will be installed this fall at major seaports and border crossings, the government said Friday.
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Calif. agency probes where insecticides go
Jul 14 2006 5:23PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO (AP) - California's pesticide agency is conducting a review of popular insecticides because many are ending up in urban streams and killing tiny aquatic creatures. The review could lead to restrictions and even bans on many products used on lawns and gardens.
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Massive chunk falls from Eiger mountain
Jul 14 2006 8:47AM (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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Dolphin pod swims up New Zealand river
Jul 14 2006 8:44AM (CT)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A group of bottlenose dolphins left the open sea and swam up a New Zealand river, apparently to escape killer whales, a conservation official said Friday.
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