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Program seeks help finding dragonflies
Jul 21 2005 8:09PM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Quick! What has large protruding eyes, is black with yellow spots along its spindly four-inch long body, has wings a half-foot long and can fly faster than 30 mph? And, oh yeah, it's one of nature's most aggressive hunters.
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King George's madness linked to arsenic
Jul 21 2005 8:03PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Scientists have found high levels of arsenic in the hair of King George III and say the deadly poison may be to blame for the bouts of apparent madness he suffered.
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Hawaiian caterpillar has unique taste
Jul 21 2005 8:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A type of caterpillar with a taste for escargot rather than the normal vegetable diet has been discovered in Hawaii.
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Expert questions existence of woodpecker
Jul 21 2005 8:02PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An expert on the ivory-billed woodpecker is questioning evidence that purportedly shows the rare bird, once thought to be extinct, in the swamps of southeast Arkansas.
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Mount St. Helens still shaking
Jul 21 2005 8:01PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - There's a whole lotta shakin' going on at Mount St. Helens these days as the restless peak does what it has done for thousands of years: build new lava domes that totter and fall and become the foundations for still more new ones.
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Smog fight aided by self-cleaning elements
Jul 21 2005 7:58PM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - From catalytic converters to alternative fuels, the fight against big-city smog has for years been fought inside combustion engines and exhaust pipes.
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Heat wave to stick around in Southwest
Jul 21 2005 7:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - As a record heat wave bakes the Southwest, government forecasters are offering little respite in their long-range outlook.
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NASA aims for Tuesday shuttle launch
Jul 21 2005 10:19AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA will try to launch Discovery on the first space shuttle mission in more than two years next Tuesday, and may press ahead with liftoff even if there's a repeat of the fuel gauge problem that halted last week's countdown.
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