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A look at the dead-whale-on-a-beach dilemma
After a dead whale washed up on a beach in Malibu, Calif., near Bob Dylan's home it wasn't long before a foul smell was blowin' in the wind and ...
Apple to produce line of Macs in the US next year
Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company will move production of one of its existing lines of Mac computers from China to the United States next year.
McAfee hospitalized after being denied asylum
Software company founder John McAfee was hospitalized briefly Thursday after being denied political asylum in Guatemala, and his lawyers said they ...
Safety, need compete in typhoon-hit Philippines
The Philippine government's geological hazard maps show why this farming community was largely washed away by a strong typhoon: "highly susceptible ...
Calif. sues Delta Airlines over mobile app privacy
California sued Delta Airlines Inc. on Thursday, alleging the Atlanta-based company is breaking state law by not warning users that the airline is ...
Alaska reclaims missing moon rocks since 1973
A display of moon rocks that disappeared from an Alaska museum after an arson fire nearly four decades ago has been returned to the state following ...
AP Exclusive: Japan scientists took utility money
Influential scientists who help set Japan's radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country's nuclear plant operators to ...
Report: Calif. stem cell agency needs overhaul
California has transformed into a major player in stem cell research, but the taxpayer-funded institute responsible has "significant deficiencies" in ...
Gene-altered mosquitoes could be used vs. dengue
Mosquito control officials in the Florida Keys are waiting for the federal government to sign off on an experiment that would release hundreds of ...
To the moon? Firm hopes to sell $1.5 billion trips
Attention wealthy nations and billionaires: A team of former NASA executives will fly you to the moon in an out-of-this-world commercial venture ...
Craft spies interesting gullies on asteroid Vesta
Scientists are puzzling over the discovery of gullies inside young craters on the giant asteroid Vesta. NASA's Dawn spacecraft spied two types of ...
Drought revives old water war among river states
The water wars are raging again in America's heartland, where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri ...
T-Mobile to get Apple devices soon, iPhone likely
T-Mobile will likely start carrying the iPhone next year after its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, said it has reached a new deal with Apple.
Tensions mount as UN climate talks near end
U.N. climate talks are heading into the final stretch with a host of issues unresolved, including a standoff over how much money financially stressed ...
CDC: Language barrier caused chlorine gas leak
A chlorine gas leak that sickened nearly 200 people at a Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas last year happened because a worker who couldn't read the ...
Review: 'Need for Speed,' 'Forza' hit the gas
Holiday-season TV ads would have you believe that lots of people get brand-new cars for Christmas. With giant bows on top. I hate to play Scrooge, but ...
Tech titans renew legal battle over smartphones
The epic $1 billion patent fight between the world's top two smartphone makers resumes Thursday in a federal courtroom when Apple Inc. and Samsung ...
Rare tornado kills 3 in New Zealand's largest city
An unusually destructive tornado swept through neighborhoods around New Zealand's largest city Thursday, killing three people and forcing 250 more to ...
Middle East beginning to embrace solar energy
Covering nearly 300 football fields in a remote patch of desert, the Shams 1 solar project carries off plenty of symbolic significance for the United ...
About 350 die in Philippine typhoon, 400 missing
A powerful typhoon that washed away emergency shelters, a military camp and possibly entire families in the southern Philippines has killed almost 350 ...
New stunning nighttime views of Earth unveiled
Twinkling city lights, raging wildfires and colorful auroras are lit up in new dazzling nighttime views of the Earth. The new images released ...
EARTH PHOTO GALLERY: Photos of Earth since 1960s
President John F. Kennedy spelled out the mission clearly in his 1961 speech committing the United States to send humans to the moon and back by the ...
Expert panel: NASA seems lost in space, needs goal
NASA, the agency that epitomized the "Right Stuff," seems lost in space and doesn't have a clear sense of where it is going, an independent panel of ...
Study could spur wider use of prenatal gene tests
A new study sets the stage for wider use of gene testing in early pregnancy. Scanning the genes of a fetus reveals far more about potential health ...
Amazon launches Kindle content service for kids
Amazon is launching a subscription service for children's games, videos and books aimed at getting more kids to use its Kindle Fire tablet devices.