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Calif. redwood may be tallest live thing
Sep 7 2006 9:29PM (CT)
REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - A redwood in a remote Northern California coastal forest has been tentatively measured as the world's tallest living thing.
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NASA to try shuttle launch on Friday
Sep 7 2006 9:28PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Caught in a scheduling squeeze, NASA decided to try to launch space shuttle Atlantis on Friday without replacing a troublesome electrical component.
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More 'intersex fish' found in Potomac
Sep 7 2006 5:30PM (CT)
McLEAN, Va. (AP) - Some species of male fish in the Potomac River and its tributaries are developing female sexual traits at a frequency higher than scientists have seen before, raising concerns about pollutants in a waterway that provides drinking water for millions of people.
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Group says giant worm must be protected
Sep 7 2006 5:19PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - It's 3 feet long, pinkish in color, smells like a lily and must be saved from extinction, conservationists said Thursday in asking the federal government to protect the Giant Palouse Earthworm under the Endangered Species Act.
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Alaska hunters find mammoth tusk
Sep 7 2006 4:30PM (CT)
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Caribou hunters have recovered a 7-foot, 3-inch mammoth tusk from a creek bed south of the village of Anaktuvuk Pass.
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Tsunami spurs interest in Asian coasts
Sep 7 2006 3:14PM (CT)
CHEME, Thailand (AP) - For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds.
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Stephen Hawking seeks assistant
Sep 7 2006 10:22AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Wanted: bright graduate student to assist world-famous scientist. International travel, developing computer systems and dealing with the press required. Renowned astrophysicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking has announced he is looking for a graduate student to work for him one to two years.
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