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High-tech buoy monitors weather in Mich.
Aug 25 2005 7:34PM (CT)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - A solar-powered buoy bobbing on the surface of Grand Traverse Bay is providing boaters, forecasters and other interested people with up-to-date information about the Lake Michigan waterway's sometimes volatile weather.
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Scientists try to harness wave energy
Aug 25 2005 7:30PM (CT)
GARDINER, Ore. (AP) - As the price of a barrel of oil continues to surge, scientists are turning to the ocean as a possible source of alternative energy.
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Deadly tsunami reached around the globe
Aug 25 2005 7:28PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Last year's Sumatra tsunami focused its death and destruction on the lands around the Indian Ocean, but the great wave traveled around the world and was recorded as far away as Peru and northeastern Canada.
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Telescope may bring view of early universe
Aug 25 2005 7:26PM (CT)
ELMORE, Ohio (AP) - Designing and constructing a telescope that can capture faint particles of light from the early periods of the universe has its share of obstacles. One challenge was to design lightweight mirrors durable enough to withstand extreme cold.
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NASA renames facility for Columbia crew
Aug 25 2005 4:41PM (CT)
PALESTINE, Texas (AP) - The name of NASA's balloon research facility now honors space shuttle Columbia's seven astronauts, who died when their spacecraft disintegrated over east Texas in 2003, the agency announced Thursday.
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Japan postpones launch of spy satellite
Aug 25 2005 3:58PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan has decided to postpone the launch of a third spy satellite from the current fiscal year to fiscal 2006 due to technical difficulties, a media report said Thursday.
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Recordings of rare woodpecker presented
Aug 25 2005 1:48PM (CT)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Scientists publicly presented recordings of the ivory-billed woodpecker, noting that the tape suggests there might be more than one of the rare birds in an eastern Arkansas swamp.
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Glass gave Venetian paintings their glow
Aug 25 2005 1:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - How did paintings by Tintoretto and other Venetian Renaissance artists get their special glow? Using an electron microscope, Barbara Berrie, senior conservation scientist at the National Gallery of Art, discovered one of their secrets: tiny bits of glass the artists mixed with their pigments.
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Federal judge OKs global warming lawsuit
Aug 25 2005 1:26PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Environmental groups and four U.S. cities can sue federal development agencies on allegations the overseas projects they back financially contribute to global warming, a judge has ruled.
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