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Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident
5:40PM CT
(AP) - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.
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A crash course in true political science
5:11PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task — getting elected to public office.
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New idea in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye
4:41PM CT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest — dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.
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Conservationists, developer reach major Calif. land deal
May 8 2008 10:38PM CT
LEBEC, Calif. (AP) - A group of environmentalists and the owners of a large stretch of wilderness have reached a deal that would set aside the largest parcel of land for conservation in California history.
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Scientists map the genetic makeup of the platypus
May 8 2008 5:34PM CT
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - With a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver and snake-like venom hidden in heel spurs, the platypus could be the result of some strange genetic experiment.
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Air pollution in Wyo. community rivals that of big cities
May 8 2008 7:25PM CT
BOULDER, Wyo. (AP) - There isn't anything metropolitan about this tiny unincorporated town in southwest Wyoming, where a few single-family homes and a volunteer fire station stand against a skyline of snowcapped mountains.
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