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Entangled whale calf frees itself
Sep 14 2005 8:58PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A humpback whale calf entangled in crab pot gear for days near Juneau apparently got itself loose, a federal fisheries biologist said Wednesday.
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Major quake could be worse than Katrina
Sep 14 2005 8:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - As many as 18,000 people dead. More than $250 billion in damages. Hundreds of thousands of people left homeless. That's not the latest estimate of Hurricane Katrina's toll on the Gulf Coast. That's a worst-case scenario if a major earthquake were to hit Los Angeles.
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Hawaii telescopes record cosmic explosion
Sep 14 2005 8:04PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii recorded the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen, probably caused by the collapse of a massive dying star, according to University of Hawaii astronomers.
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Bison numbers swell at Yellowstone
Sep 14 2005 8:03PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The Yellowstone National Park bison population has reached an estimated 4,900 animals _ hundreds more than last winter and the highest level documented, a park spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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Japan's probe within 12 miles of asteroid
Sep 14 2005 8:03PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Bringing Japan's most complex space mission near its climax, a probe is within 12 miles of an asteroid almost 180 million miles from Earth in an unprecedented rendezvous designed to retrieve rocks from its surface.
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Katrina damage clouds Hubble's future
Sep 14 2005 7:59PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Hurricane damage to NASA space shuttle facilities has further clouded the future of the Hubble Space Telescope. Katrina damaged the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where the shuttle's fuel tanks are built, and the Mississippi-based Stennis Space Center, where shuttle engines are tested, NASA officials said.
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China's first astronaut to appear in movie
Sep 14 2005 7:43AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - China's first man in space, Yang Liwei, may make his big screen debut in a charity movie produced by filmmaker Tsui Hark, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Wednesday.
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