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Vast water reservoir beneath Greenland ice

Dec 23, 2013

PARIS (AFP) ― A vast store of water equivalent in area to Ireland lies beneath Greenland’s icesheet, and it may provide answers to one of the big riddles of climate change, scientists reported on Sun...
Cat-mouse game might explain how felines got tame

Dec 17, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) ― A cat-and-mouse game played out in a Chinese village some 5,300 years ago is helping scientists understand how wild felines transformed into the tame pets we know today. In fact, it ...
Iran sends second monkey into space

Dec 15, 2013

TEHRAN (AP) ― Iran said Saturday it has successfully sent a monkey into space for a second time, part of an ambitious program aimed at manned space flight. Iran’s state TV said that the launch of th...
Astronaut may get Christmas wish for spacewalk

Dec 15, 2013

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― Space station astronaut Rick Mastracchio may get his Christmas wish for a spacewalk or two because of a broken cooling system. Mastracchio, an experienced spacewalker,...
Actor’s science contest asks: What is color?

Dec 12, 2013

MINEOLA, New York (AP) ― Alan Alda, the actor-turned-part-time professor, has a new question for scientists to consider: How do you explain color to an 11-year-old? The television and film star best...
U.S. issues rules for removing antibiotics from farms

Dec 12, 2013

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― In response to concerns about the rise in drug-resistant superbugs worldwide, U.S. regulators Wednesday issued voluntary guidelines to help cut back on antibiotics routinely fed to...
Viewing news of trauma worse than experiencing it

Dec 11, 2013

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― After the Boston marathon bombings, people who spent six hours a day scouring media for updates were more traumatized than those who were actually there, a U.S. study suggested. T...
European probe on course for a landing on a comet

Dec 11, 2013

An illustration of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander (AP-Yonhap news) It's been likened to a parachutist trying to land on a mountaintop. Or a person attempting to leap from one speedi...
Earth’s atmosphere to take beating at World Cup

Dec 10, 2013

SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) ― The World Cup may be great for planet soccer, but it isn’t so good for planet Earth. FIFA says the 2014 tournament, which will require huge amounts of air travel to venues ac...
NASA: Ancient Martian lake may have supported life

Dec 10, 2013

NASA believes the shaded area once held a freshwater lake. (AFP-Yonhap News) LOS ANGELES (AP) ― NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars, which scientists say...
Slippery clay intensified Japan 2011 tsunami-quake

Dec 9, 2013

A thin layer of very fine clay with a consistency similar to some cosmetics made Japan’s tsunami-causing earthquake of 2011 much more dramatic because it acted as a lubricant, scientists say. The na...
Nobel winner: Scientists get it wrong most of time

Dec 8, 2013

STOCKHOLM (AP) ― One of this year’s Nobel Prize laureates says learning how to handle failure is key to becoming a successful scientist. American James Rothman, who shared the medicine prize with co...
Zoo orangutans play with iPads

Dec 5, 2013

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) ― Like many humans, the orangutans at the Kansas City Zoo are spending time playing games, watching videos and listening to music on their iPads. The project, called Apps ...
Ancient DNA from human relative sets age record

Dec 5, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) ― Scientists have reached farther back than ever into the ancestry of humans to recover and analyze DNA, using a bone found in Spain that’s estimated to be 400,000 years old. So far, th...
Men’s and women’s brains are wired differently: study

Dec 5, 2013

Women aren’t very good at reading maps, and men are incapable of multi-tasking. At first glance they might seem like a couple of hoary old stereotypes from the battle of the sexes. But are they? A ...