| | Geneva atom smasher sets record for beam energy
5:39AM CT
GENEVA (AP) - Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe. | | |
Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward
Mar 18 2010 2:05PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality. | | |
 Export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna rejected
Mar 18 2010 3:03PM CT
DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Fishing nations won a victory over environmentalists Thursday when a U.S.-backed proposal to ban export of the Atlantic bluefin tuna was overwhelmingly rejected at a U.N. wildlife meeting. | | |
Arctic animals doing better, but not close to pole
Mar 17 2010 3:52PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - The overall number of animals in the Arctic has increased over the past 40 years ago, according to a new international study. But critters who live closest to the North Pole are disappearing. | | |
 NASA finds shrimp dinner on ice beneath Antarctica
Mar 15 2010 2:05PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet. | | |
 China without Google: 'a lose-lose scenario'
Mar 16 2010 7:11AM CT
BEIJING (AP) - China without Google — a prospect that looks increasingly likely — could mean no more maps on mobile phones. A free music service that has helped to fight piracy might be in jeopardy. China's fledgling Web outfits would face less pressure to improve, eroding their ability to one day compete abroad. | | |
 Research monkey deaths prompt calls for crackdown
Mar 18 2010 1:57AM CT
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) - Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be euthanized. | | |
 Endangered listing eyed for US loggerhead turtles
Mar 10 2010 11:29PM CT
BOSTON (AP) - The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions on fishing and other maritime trades. | | |
 48 Hawaii-only species given endangered listing
Mar 11 2010 2:32AM CT
HONOLULU (AP) - Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to allow the plants and animals to flourish. | | |
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