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Hawaii scientists to study tsunami warning
Sep 9 2005 8:07PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - University of Hawaii scientists want to study how local residents and authorities would respond to the state's tsunami siren warning system in the event a killer wave was approaching the islands.
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Genetic relative of SARS found in bats
Sep 9 2005 8:01PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists in China say they have found a genetic relative of the human SARS virus in a local species of bat, raising the possibility that the bats were a primary source of the disease when it was transmitted to humans.
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Study done of how soap clings to water
Sep 9 2005 7:58PM (CT)
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Scientists have learned how molecules found in many soaps and detergents cling to the surface of water, which may help develop better methods for cleaning up environmental hazards.
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Mexico beats deadline, stops using CFCs
Sep 9 2005 7:57PM (CT)
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - Mexico has stopped producing ozone-depleting chemicals four years before a deadline set by an international agreement, the environment secretary announced Friday.
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$20M space tourist trains for launch
Sep 9 2005 7:51PM (CT)
STAR CITY, Russia (AP) - U.S. space tourist Gregory Olsen joined a Russian cosmonaut and an American astronaut for training outside Moscow on Friday in preparation for their Oct. 1 launch to the international space station.
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Japan begins hunt for 60 whales
Sep 9 2005 2:55PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese whaling ships returned to port Friday with the first three of 60 whales they plan to catch along the nation's northern coast as they began the season's research program that opponents criticize as commercial whaling.
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NASA deputy administrator resigns
Sep 9 2005 12:41PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's first black shuttle commander said Friday he is resigning as the space agency's deputy administrator after a 31-year career.
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Bronze-age boat sailors are rescued
Sep 9 2005 11:03AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - International researchers attempting to sail 600 miles in a Bronze Age-style reed boat had to be rescued from the Arabian Sea after the vessel started to capsize, an Indian navy official said Friday.
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Countries to agree to save ape habitats
Sep 9 2005 7:00AM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Nearly two dozen countries were to commit themselves Friday to saving primate habitats and stopping poaching in a historic push to protect the world's dwindling great ape populations.
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Report: Ky. 8th in mercury plant emissions
Sep 9 2005 12:52AM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky ranked eighth nationally in mercury emissions from power plants that fouled waterways, an environmental group said Thursday.
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Genes show signs brain still evolving
Sep 9 2005 12:21AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The human brain may still be evolving. So suggests new research that tracked changes in two genes thought to help regulate brain growth, changes that appeared well after the rise of modern humans 200,000 years ago.
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