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SD college tests fingerprint purchasing technology
Futurists have long proclaimed the coming of a cashless society, where dollar bills and plastic cards are replaced by fingerprint and retina scanners ...
Study: Asian carp DNA may not signal live fish
Live Asian carp don't necessarily have to be present for their DNA to turn up in the environment, according to a government study released Wednesday ...
NASA rover preps for 1st test of drilled Mars rock
Fresh off drilling into a rock for the first time, the Mars rover Curiosity is prepping for the next step: dissecting the pulverized rock to determine ...
Report: Failure of Glory climate satellite unknown
A group of experts investigating the launch failure of a NASA climate satellite has failed to come up with a reason. The Glory satellite plummeted ...
Scientists use 3-D printing to help grow an ear
Printing out body parts? Cornell University researchers showed it's possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of ...
Oregon couple defends sales of cure-all bleach
An Oregon couple accused of selling a diluted version of industrial bleach as a cure for cancer, earaches and other maladies claims the federal ...
Cornell physicist and Nobel winner Richardson dies
Robert C. Richardson, a Cornell University professor who shared a Nobel Prize for a key discovery in experimental physics, has died. He was 75.
Diplomats: Iran starts upgrade of nuclear site
In a disheartening signal to world powers at upcoming Iran talks, Tehran has started installing high-tech machines at its main uranium enrichment site ...
Smallest planet yet found outside solar system
Astronomers searching for planets outside our solar system have discovered the tiniest one yet — one that's about the size of our moon. But hunters ...
New digs: Federal research chimps savor retirement
For the first time in their lives, four aging chimpanzees once used in federal research can go outside whenever they like. They can lie on the grass, ...
Future science: Using 3D worlds to visualize data
Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science ...
High court seems to favor Monsanto in patent case
The Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to side with Monsanto Co. in its claim that an Indiana farmer violated the company's patents on soybean ...
NASA regains space station contact after outage
The International Space Station regained contact with NASA controllers in Houston after nearly three hours of accidental quiet, the space agency says.
Russian scientists recover meteor fragments
Scientists have found more than 50 tiny fragments of a meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains, and preliminary tests are turning up ...
Climate contradiction: Less snow, more blizzards
Scientists point to both scant recent snowfall in parts of the country and this month's whopper of a Northeast blizzard as potential global warming ...
Study: Hummingbirds migrating earlier in spring
Ruby-throated hummingbirds are migrating to North America weeks earlier than in decades past, and research indicates that higher temperatures in their ...
Meteor-broken windows in Russian city being fixed
Authorities in a Russian city say more than half of the acres of windows smashed in the city by an exploding meteor's shock wave have been replaced.
Russian region begins recovery from meteor fall
As a small army of people worked to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, many joked on Saturday about what had ...
Cuba, too, reports powerful meteorite explosion
Cuba apparently experienced a phenomenon similar to but smaller than the meteorite that detonated over Russia this week, island media reported, with ...
Fewer bees in US a threat to world's almond supply
In an almond orchard in California's Central Valley, bee inspector Neil Trent pried open a buzzing hive and pulled out a frame to see if it was at ...
Islands want UN to see climate as security threat
The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations appealed to the U.N. Security Council to recognize climate change as an international security ...
2 space rocks hours apart point up the danger
A space rock even bigger than the meteor that exploded like an atom bomb over Russia could drop out of the sky unannounced at any time and wreak havoc ...
Meteor explodes over Russia, 1,100 injured
With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky Friday and exploded with the force of 20 atomic bombs, ...