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NY welcomes wave adaptive modular vessel
Sep 6 2007 9:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Pity the fisherman or sailor who staggers on deck in the morning and through bleary eyes sees a 100-foot-long water spider coming at him, buzzing ominously.
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NY welcomes wave adaptive modular vessel
Sep 6 2007 9:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Pity the fisherman or sailor who staggers on deck in the morning and through bleary eyes sees a 100-foot-long water spider coming at him, buzzing ominously.
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NY welcomes wave adaptive modular vessel
Sep 6 2007 9:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Pity the fisherman or sailor who staggers on deck in the morning and through bleary eyes sees a 100-foot-long water spider coming at him, buzzing ominously.
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NOAA affirms predictions of sea ice loss
Sep 6 2007 9:18PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - An analysis of 20 years' worth of real-life observations supports recent U.N. computer predictions that by 2050, summer sea ice off Alaska's north coast will probably shrink to nearly half the area it covered in the 1980s, federal scientists say.
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Virus may be cause of honeybees' deaths
Sep 6 2007 8:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientific sleuths have a new suspect for a mysterious affliction that has killed off honeybees by the billions: a virus previously unknown in the United States.
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Argentina museum displays Incan mummy
Sep 6 2007 5:44PM (CT)
SALTA, Argentina (AP) - Museumgoers gasped Thursday at the well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden which is on display for the first time, a serene gaze etched on her face hundreds of years ago when she froze to death in the Andes.
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Argentina museum displays Incan mummy
Sep 6 2007 5:44PM (CT)
SALTA, Argentina (AP) - Museumgoers gasped Thursday at the well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden which is on display for the first time, a serene gaze etched on her face hundreds of years ago when she froze to death in the Andes.
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Argentina museum displays Incan mummy
Sep 6 2007 5:44PM (CT)
SALTA, Argentina (AP) - Museumgoers gasped Thursday at the well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden which is on display for the first time, a serene gaze etched on her face hundreds of years ago when she froze to death in the Andes.
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Argentina museum displays Incan mummy
Sep 6 2007 5:44PM (CT)
SALTA, Argentina (AP) - Museumgoers gasped Thursday at the well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden which is on display for the first time, a serene gaze etched on her face hundreds of years ago when she froze to death in the Andes.
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NASA accused of deriding drinking report
Sep 6 2007 4:07PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - An Air Force doctor who headed a controversial astronaut health study told Congress on Thursday that NASA is discouraging open communications by rebutting reports of drunken astronauts on launch day and deriding the claims as urban legends.
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U.S., China urged on energy efficiency
Sep 6 2007 4:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Los Angeles and Pittsburgh provide examples of what to do _ and not to do _ about China's severe air pollution in the face of surging energy use from rapid economic growth, U.S. and Chinese scientists say.
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U.S., China urged on energy efficiency
Sep 6 2007 4:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Los Angeles and Pittsburgh provide examples of what to do _ and not to do _ about China's severe air pollution in the face of surging energy use from rapid economic growth, U.S. and Chinese scientists say.
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Rocket crash prompts environment concern
Sep 6 2007 3:59PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - An unmanned Russian rocket carrying a Japanese communications satellite malfunctioned after liftoff Thursday, sending parts crashing in an uninhabited part of Kazakhstan and triggering concerns about environmental damage.
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Tots more socially cognitive than apes
Sep 6 2007 3:34PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Toddlers may act up like little apes, but researchers who compared the species concluded a 2-year-old child still has the more sophisticated social learning skills.
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American girls' suicide rates rise
Sep 6 2007 12:09PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The suicide rate among preteen and teenage girls rose to its highest level in 15 years, and hanging surpassed guns as the preferred method, federal health officials reported Thursday.
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APEC nations wrestle with climate change
Sep 6 2007 3:53AM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Pacific Rim nations agreed Thursday that climate change was of "vital interest," but officials squabbled over whether their leaders should include energy efficiency targets in a statement at their annual summit.
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