Ten years since loss of space shuttle Columbia
He was just 8 when NASA lost the space shuttle Columbia and he lost his astronaut mom. Now, 10 years later, Iain Clark is a young man on the cusp of ...
Green thumb? Wash. state looks for pot consultant
Wanted: A green thumb with extensive knowledge of the black, or at least gray, market. As Washington state tries to figure out how to regulate its ...
Mixed decision in phony Scrolls email appeal
Evidence in a rare Internet impersonation case showed that a highly educated defendant broke the law by trying to "damage the careers and livelihoods" ...
IBM sends Watson to NY college to boost its skills
Watson, the supercomputer famous for beating the world's best human "Jeopardy!" champions, is going to college. IBM is announcing Wednesday that it ...
Santa Maria mourns its dead, calls for justice
The young law student sat alone in a pew, clutching a shirt on which she'd written the names of friends she'd lost in a weekend nightclub fire in this ...
Genetics may explain severe flu in Chinese people
A genetic variant commonly found in Chinese people may help explain why some got seriously ill with swine flu, a discovery scientists say could help ...
Cadavers honored in med student dissection lab
When medical students have finished their study and practice on cadavers, they often hold a respectful memorial service to honor these bodies donated ...
Iran says it successfully sent a monkey into space
A gray-tufted monkey strapped in a pod resembling an infant's car seat rode an Iranian rocket into space and returned safely, officials said Monday ...
Teachers flip for 'flipped learning' class model
When Timmy Nguyen comes to his pre-calculus class, he's already learned the day's lesson — he watched it on a short online video prepared by his ...
Study: Distant rural areas may feel cities' heat
Heat rising up from cities such as New York, Paris and Tokyo might be remotely warming up winters far away in some rural parts of Alaska, Canada, and ...
Japan launches 2 intelligence satellites
Japan launched two intelligence satellites into orbit on Sunday amid growing concerns that North Korea is planning to test more rockets of its own and ...
Do penalties for smokers and the obese make sense?
Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead of trying to penalize ...
AP Interview: CERN chief firmer on 'God particle'
The world should know with certainty by the middle of this year whether a subatomic particle discovered by scientists is a long-sought Higgs boson, ...
Powers of prophesy: Davos looks to the future
Forget the endless debates about the euro or government debts. What does the future hold? The World Economic Forum at Davos is always a showcase for ...
What's the threat? North Korean rhetoric, reality
According to its official statements, North Korea is ready to go to the brink. But how serious are Pyongyang's threats? This week, new U.N.
Will smart machines create a world without work?
They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like "I, Robot" and the television show ...
Practically human: Can smart machines do your job?
Art Liscano knows he's an endangered species in the job market: He's a meter reader in Fresno, Calif. For 26 years, he's driven from house to house, ...
Cambodia reports 3 new bird flu cases, 2 fatal
Cambodia on Friday reported three new human cases of bird flu, two of them fatal, in the first three weeks of this year. That's as many cases as the ...
NASA testing vintage engine from Apollo 11 rocket
Like vinyl records and skinny ties, good things eventually come back around. At NASA, that means looking to the Apollo program for ideas on how to ...
Guyana pledges to protect jaguars
The lushly forested nation of Guyana on Thursday joined a regional pact to protect jaguars, the elusive spotted cat that is the biggest land predator ...
Buoyed by Obama, leaders press for climate action
Hurricanes, floods, droughts and a newly climate-conscious Barack Obama are helping boost efforts around the world to fight climate change.
Plane carrying 3 Canadians missing in Antarctica
Bad weather has forced rescuers to wait until Friday to try to reach a small plane believed to have crashed in an Antarctic mountain range while ...
Great white shark hanging out near NC coast again
A 16-foot great white shark named Mary Lee is among those who like calling North Carolina home. The Ocearch Shark Tracker has kept track of the ...
Study: Digital information can be stored in DNA
It can store the information from a million CDs in a space no bigger than your little finger, and could keep it safe for centuries. Is this some new ...
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