Science News
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Alarm over vanishing frogs in the Caribbean
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:11PM April 10, 2013 CommentPATILLAS, Puerto Rico (AP) — A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally hacking their way with a machete to reach the mouth of a small cave.
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Stephen Hawking: Explore space for humanity's sake
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:28PM April 10, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Stephen Hawking, who spent his career decoding the universe and even experienced weightlessness, is urging the continuation of space exploration — for humanity's sake.
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190M-year-old dino bones shed light on development
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:29PM April 10, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Recently discovered dinosaur embryos are giving scientists their best glimpse yet into how the ancient creatures developed.
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Mouse brains made transparent, revealing anatomy
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:29PM April 10, 2013 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Talk about clearing your head: Stanford University scientists have found a way to make see-through mouse brains.
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Feelin' queasy? More air turbulence over Atlantic
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:09PM April 10, 2013 CommentLONDON (AP) — Tourists, exchange students, masters of the financial universe and other business travelers: It's time to buckle up.
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Baby Lake doing fine 5 months after exit procedure
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:18AM April 09, 2013 CommentDENVER (AP) — Lake Annabelle Hall wouldn't be alive today if doctors at Children's Hospital of Colorado hadn't operated on a cyst on her left lung before she was born.
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National beekeeper of year focuses on dying bees
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:09PM April 06, 2013 CommentLOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Utah man is trying to use his recognition as this year's national beekeeper of the year to focus attention on a major threat to the industry: colony collapse disorder.
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Senator: NASA to lasso asteroid, bring it closer
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:45PM April 05, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator said Friday.
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Sandy criticism prompts change in storm warnings
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:36PM April 04, 2013 CommentMIAMI (AP) — Responding to criticism after Superstorm Sandy, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday it would change the way it warns people about tropical storms that morph into something else.
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Mars missions scaled back in April because of sun
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:29AM April 04, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — It's the Martian version of spring break: Curiosity and Opportunity, along with their spacecraft friends circling overhead, will take it easy this month because of the sun's interference.
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Scientists find possible hint of dark matter
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:49PM April 03, 2013 CommentGENEVA (AP) — It is one of the cosmos' most mysterious unsolved cases: dark matter. It is supposedly what holds the universe together. We can't see it, but scientists are pretty sure it's out there.
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China bird flu mutates, might infect mammals
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:44PM April 03, 2013 CommentBEIJING (AP) — In a worrisome sign, a bird flu in China appears to have mutated so that it can spread to other animals, raising the potential for a bigger threat to people, scientists said Wednesday.
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Arizona tribe seeks artifacts up for auction
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:39PM April 03, 2013 CommentFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona tribe is asking a Paris auction house to cancel its upcoming sale of dozens of items central to the tribe's religious practices and return them to their original homes in the American Southwest.
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Obama proposes $100M for brain mapping project
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:47PM April 02, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer's, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.
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Oily ducks found following Arkansas oil spill
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:17PM April 01, 2013 CommentMAYFLOWER, Ark. (AP) — The environmental impacts of an oil spill in central Arkansas began to come into focus Monday as officials said a couple of dead ducks and 10 live oily birds were found after an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured last week.
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Report predicts ever-bigger Lake Erie algae blooms
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:03PM April 01, 2013 CommentTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — It was the largest algae bloom in Lake Erie's recorded history — a scummy, toxic blob that oozed across nearly one-fifth of the lake's surface during the summer and fall of 2011. It sucked oxygen from the water, clogged boat motors and washed ashore in rotting masses that turned beachgoers' stomachs.
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Drug maker Novartis loses India patent battle
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:09AM April 01, 2013 CommentNEW DELHI (AP) — India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's attempt to patent an updated version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that health activists say ensures poor patients around the world will get continued access to cheap versions of lifesaving medicines.
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Seal pup learning to swim again after amputation
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:06AM March 29, 2013 CommentMYSTIC, Conn. (AP) — The harbor seal pup lay battered on a Massachusetts beach, the victim of a brutal attack by an older seal that left deep wounds all over her body and sapped so much of her strength that she couldn't even flee when rescuers found her.
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Russian spaceship docks with orbiting station
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:18AM March 29, 2013 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts successfully docked Friday with the International Space Station, bringing the size of the crew at the orbiting lab to six.
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New requirements for ballast water dumped by ships
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:05AM March 29, 2013 CommentTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new requirements for cleansing ballast water dumped from ships, which scientists believe has brought invasive species to U.S. waters that damage ecosystems and cost the economy billions of dollars.
