Science News
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Report card: Great Lakes still have big problems
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:33PM May 14, 2013 CommentTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and slamming the door on invasive species, but the freshwater seas continue to face serious threats, a U.S.-Canadian agency said Tuesday.
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Turkish womb transplant patient loses baby
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:47AM May 14, 2013 CommentANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A hospital says a Turkish woman who was the first to get pregnant with a transplanted donor womb has had her pregnancy terminated.
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Budget cuts pare real-time monitoring of volcanoes
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:54AM May 14, 2013 CommentANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Scientists monitoring Alaska's volcanoes have been forced to shut down stations that provide real-time tracking of eruptions and forgo repairs of seismic equipment amid ongoing federal budget cuts — moves that could mean delays in getting vital information to airline pilots and emergency planners.
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AP IMPACT: Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:22AM May 14, 2013 CommentCONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.
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3-man space crew returns safely to Earth
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:10PM May 13, 2013 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man crew from the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan.
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Sun unleashes strongest solar flare of 2013 so far
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:58PM May 13, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — The sun has fired off a massive flare, the strongest solar eruption this year.
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2 new diseases could both spark global outbreaks
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:34AM May 13, 2013 CommentLONDON (AP) — Two respiratory viruses in different parts of the world have captured the attention of global health officials — a novel coronavirus in the Middle East and a new bird flu spreading in China.
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Project aims to track big city carbon footprints
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:36AM May 13, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward.
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Project aims to track big city carbon footprints
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:57AM May 12, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists are on a mission to track the carbon footprints of large cities that are increasingly responsible for human-caused global warming.
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Experts: CO2 record illustrates 'scary' trend
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:58PM May 11, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The old saying that "what goes up must come down" doesn't apply to carbon dioxide pollution in the air, which just hit an unnerving milestone.
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Greenhouse gas milestone; CO2 levels set record
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:30PM May 10, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air have hit a milestone of 400 parts per million.
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Spacewalk may be needed to fix space station leak
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:07PM May 10, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Two astronauts on the International Space Station are preparing for a possible impromptu spacewalk to work on a leaking coolant line.
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London Zoo seeks female mate for near-extinct fish
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:36AM May 10, 2013 CommentLONDON (AP) — The London Zoo is urgently seeking a female mate for the last-known males of a critically endangered fish species.
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Surgeon: Stonewall Jackson death likely pneumonia
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:22AM May 10, 2013 CommentHistorians and doctors have debated for decades what medical complications caused the death of legendary Confederate fighter Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, felled by friendly fire from his troops during the Civil War.
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'Ring of fire' eclipse crosses Australia, Pacific
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:28PM May 09, 2013 CommentSYDNEY (AP) — Skygazers across the Australian Outback were among the lucky few to witness a solar eclipse on Friday as the moon glided between Earth and the sun, blocking everything but a dazzling ring of light.
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UK budget airline to test ash cloud detector
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:33AM May 09, 2013 CommentLONDON (AP) — Budget airline easyJet PLC says it has acquired a ton of ash from Icelandic volcanoes for use in an experiment to test ash detection technology.
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Wearable robots getting lighter, more portable
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:12AM May 09, 2013 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — When Michael Gore stands it's a triumph of science and engineering. He was paralyzed from the waist down 11 years ago in a workplace accident. Yet he rises from his wheelchair to his full 6-foot-2-inches and walks across the room.
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Stephen Hawking won't attend Israeli conference
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:19AM May 08, 2013 CommentLONDON (AP) — Physicist Stephen Hawking has dropped plans to attend a major conference in Israel in June, prompting criticism Wednesday from Israeli officials who believe he has joined a boycott organized to protest Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
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Europeans had common ancestors 1,000 years ago
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:01PM May 07, 2013 CommentBERLIN (AP) — Europeans appear to be more closely related than previously thought.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX signs lease at NM spaceport
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:09PM May 07, 2013 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Another space industry heavyweight has signed on to use New Mexico's Spaceport America — Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, Gov. Susana Martinez announced Tuesday.
