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On video, dolphin gives birth to calf in Hawaii
A 12-year-old dolphin at a Hawaii resort has given birth to a female calf that seems to instantly recognize her mother in a video of the birth posted ...
Park rumbles during annual SD buffalo roundup
Two-year-old Jameson Maxwell sat mesmerized Monday as nearly 1,000 bison rumbled across the prairie in western South Dakota, the massive creatures ...
Dog quickly takes in, nurses stray kitten in Minn.
A Minnesota woman says she was shocked when her small dog began caring for an abandoned kitten, then started producing milk and nursing the fuzzy gray ...
East Coast weather satellite fails, spare used
The U.S. weather satellite that tracks the East Coast and Atlantic hurricanes is broken. Meteorologists are scrambling to fill in lost data for ...
Washington state's first 'zombie bees' reported
The infection is as grim as it sounds: "Zombie bees" have a parasite that causes them to fly at night and lurch around erratically until they die.
Plight of 2 baby gorillas raises fears in Congo
The plight of two infant gorillas, rescued after being kidnapped from their wild families, highlights the dangers confronting the endangered Grauer's ...
Verizon says iPhone 5 won't be 'relocked'
Verizon Wireless said Monday that it won't prevent its version of the iPhone 5 from being used on AT&T's network. The Verizon version of the iPhone ...
Apple supplier halts China factory after violence
The company that makes Apple's iPhones suspended production at a factory in China on Monday after a brawl by as many as 2,000 employees at a dormitory ...
New York Times closes on $300M sale of About Group
The New York Times has completed its $300 million sale of The About Group to Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp. IAC, which operates online businesses ...
Toyota plans expanded range of hybrids
Toyota Motor Corp. is boosting its green vehicle lineup, with plans for 21 new hybrids in the next three years, a new electric car later this year and ...
Creation views threaten US science
The man known to a generation of Americans as "The Science Guy" is condemning efforts by some Christian groups to cast doubts on evolution and ...
Decades of federal dollars helped fuel gas boom
It sounds like a free-market success story: a natural gas boom created by drilling company innovation, delivering a vast new source of cheap energy ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Global warming
The issue: People love to talk about the weather, especially when it's strange like the mercifully ended summer of 2012. This year the nation's ...
The nation's weather
Wet weather will diminish across the East Coast on Sunday as a low pressure system in eastern Canada lifts northeastward and away from the region.
Gas drilling protests held in US, other countries
Demonstrators in the United States and other countries protested Saturday against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking that they say ...
iPhone 5 launch draws Apple fans worldwide
In a now familiar global ritual, Apple fans jammed shops across the globe to pick up the tech juggernaut's latest iPhone. Eager buyers formed long ...
Verizon iPhone 5's secret feature: It's 'unlocked'
The Verizon Wireless version of the iPhone 5, which went on sale Friday, comes with a secret and unexpected feature: it works on AT&T's network as ...
GM offers big discounts to boost Volt sales
General Motors rolled out the Chevrolet Volt two years ago with lofty sales goals and the promise of a new technology that someday would help end ...
Desalination no panacea for Calif. water woes
In the Central California coastal town of Marina, a $7 million desalination plant that can turn salty ocean waves into fresh drinking water sits idle ...
After victory lap, Endeavor rolls to retirement
Space shuttle Endeavour rocketed beyond Earth orbit 25 times. Its 26th mission: A 12-mile commute through the streets of Los Angeles to its new ...
Endeavour gives Californians ultimate photo op
Rather than roaring to space on an elevator of flame, the shuttle Endeavour's final flight Friday was a leisurely, low-altitude journey past the ...
New NASA photo satellite to join 40-year mission
A fleet of picture-snapping NASA satellites that for 40 years has documented forest fires, tsunamis and everyday changes in the Earth's geography will ...
Review: iPhone evolves into jewel-like '5'
If you run your finger over one of the joints where plastic and metal meet on the rim of the iPhone 5, you feel just the slightest hint of the seam.
Can religion save Africa's elephants and rhinos?
Standing before a pile of charred elephant ivory as dusk covered the surrounding savannah, Christian, Muslim and Hindu religious leaders grasped hands ...