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RNC Convention may be safe, Isaac is redirecting, downgrading
DANICA COTO,Associated Press Two people walk into a thatched roof hut located along the shore in Barahona, Dominican Republic, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Tropical Storm Isaac churned toward the Dominican Republic More...
Farmers grappling with Hurricane Irene even a year later
GEORGE M. WALSH,Associated Press LISA RATHKE,Associated Press In this March 20, 2012, file photo, silt from Tropical Storm Irene covers a farmers' field Tuesday, March 20, 2012 in Waitsfield, Vt. A year after More...
Drought intensifies in key farming states
JIM SUHR,AP Business Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — The latest update on the nation’s drought shows that the parched conditions continue worsening in key farm states even as the situation across all of the continental More...
Tropical Storm Isaac lashes northern Caribbean
DANICA COTO,Associated Press This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Storm Isaac spinning over the eastern Caribbean Sea. The system is now about 265 miles southeast More...
Endangered whales invade California coastal waters
TERENCE CHEA,Associated Press In an undated photo provided Monday, Aug. 21, 2012, by Captain David Anderson's Dolphin and Whale Safari in Dana Point, Calif., spectators watch whales off the coast of southern More...
NASA rover flexes arm for first time on Mars
Jordan Evans, Engineering Development and Operations Manager, Mars Science Laboratory Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, wonders at rover's high resolution self-portrait, looking down at its deck from above, being More...
Japan’s nuclear leaks sparked butterfly mutations
ELAINE KURTENBACH,Associated Press In this undated photo taken by Masaki Iwata of Univesrity of the Ryukyus and released by the university, a normal adult pale grass blue butterfly suckles nectar from a flower. More...
Astronauts go spacewalking to hang station shields
MARCIA DUNN,AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts are spacewalking outside the International Space Station for the first time in half a year. Monday’s spacewalk got started late because More...
Curiosity rover prepares to use laser on a Martian rock
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ready, set, fire. This image released on Friday Aug. 17,2012 shows bedrocks that was exposed after Curiosity's rocket stage fired its engines that blew away soil from the Martian surface. More...
New family of spiders found in Oregon cave
JEFF BARNARD,AP Environmental Writer This undated photo from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Calif., shows a specimen of a new family of spiders, which scientists are calling Cave Robber (Trogloraptor More...
Skydiver’s supersonic plunge stalled by rough fall
MARCIA DUNN,AP Aerospace Writer Felix Baumgartner Skydiver Felix Baumgartner will have wait until fall before attempting a supersonic jump from 23 miles up. The Austrian was all set to take the plunge high above More...
CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low
KEVIN BEGOS,Associated Press In this June 25, 2012 file photo, a crew works on a drilling rig at a well site for shale based natural gas in Zelienople, Pa. In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide More...
Drought intensifies in MidWest
Drought in MidWest worsens with time JIM SUHR,AP Business Writer ASHLEY, IL - JULY 16: Marion Kujawa looks over a pond he uses to water the cattle on his farm on July 16, 2012 in Ashley, Illinois. Kujawa has been More...
Study off Mass. coast finds noise harming whales
JAY LINDSAY,Associated Press This April 10, 2008 file photograph shows three right whales cresting their tails on the surface near Provincetown, Mass., in Cape Cod Bay. A study off the Massachusetts coast has concluded More...
Thanks to drought, many wells run dry
DAVID MERCER,Associated Press In this Aug. 5, 2012 photo, water hauler Carl Marion of Athens, Ill., pumps water from his 2,000 gallon water tank on the back of his truck into a campground well in Petersburg, Ill. More...
17th century ship will be freeze-dried, rebuilt
MICHAEL GRACZYK,Associated Press This 2001 photo provided by Texas A&M University shows the hull of the 17th-century French ship La Belle at the Texas A&M University Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation More...
Environmentalists warn of risks of Arctic oil drilling
NATALIYA VASILYEVA,Associated Press Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo, right, and Greenpeace Russian energy researcher Vladimir Chuprov, left, speak at a news conference in Moscow, Russia, More...
Aircraft shoots for 3,600 mph for 300 seconds
In this July 17, 2009 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, an X-51A WaveRider hypersonic flight test vehicle is uploaded to an Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 for fit testing at Edwards Air Force Base. Four More...
Obama cheers ‘mind-boggling’ Curiosity mission
President Barack Obama walks from Marine One to board Air Force One at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012 en route to Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Neb., and onto a three day More...
Wife: Ex-astronaut Armstrong ‘amazingly resilient’
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The wife of former astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, says he’s “amazingly resilient” and making progress toward recovering from heart surgery. Carol More...
Mass of volcanic rocks floating off New Zealand
In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 photo released Friday, Aug. 2012 by New Zealand Defence Force, an area of floating pumice is spotted southwest of Raoul island, off the coast of New Zealand. A mass of small volcanic More...
NASA test flight ends in fiery crash
SETH BORENSTEIN,AP Science Writer In this still image made from video provided by NASA, the methane-powered Morpheus lander burns after it crashed in a test flight at Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday, Aug. More...
Mars crater where rover landed looks ‘Earth-like’
ALICIA CHANG,AP Science Writer Mars Science Laboratory scientists from left: Jennifer Trosper, MSL Mission Manager, JPL; Justin Maki, MSL Imaging Scientist, JPL; John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist, Cal-Tech More...
Forest Service gets more aggressive on small fires
PATRICK CONDON,Associated Press In this summer's drought, small contained fires can easily get out of hand. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is suspending a policy of letting small fires burn in More...
Ouch! July in US was hottest month ever in history books
SETH BORENSTEIN,AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — This probably comes as no surprise: Federal scientists say July was the hottest month ever recorded in the Lower 48 states, breaking a record set during the More...
Curiosity sends back flood of new views from Mars
ALICIA CHANG,AP Science Writer This image released by NASA on Wednesday Aug. 8, 2012 taken by cameras aboard the Curiosity rover shows the Martian horizon. It's one of dozens of images that will be made into More...
NASA’s new rover sends back 1st color photo, video
ALICIA CHANG,AP Science Writer This image released on Tuesday Aug. 7,2012 by NASA shows the first color view of the north wall and rim of Gale Crater where NASA's rover Curiosity landed Sunday night. The picture More...
Cold fusion chemist Martin Fleischmann dies at 85
PETER SVENSSON,AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — British chemist Martin Fleischmann, who stunned the world by announcing that he had achieved nuclear fusion in a glass bottle, has died after a long illness. More...
Russian rocket fails to reach target orbit
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV,Associated Press In this photo taken on Friday, Nov. 25, 2011 a Russian Proton booster rocket blasts off from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A similar rocket failed after More...
British astronomer Bernard Lovell dies at 98
SHAWN POGATCHNIK,Associated Press This Thursday Oct. 4, 2007 file photo shows founder of the Jodrell Bank Observatory Sir Bernard Lovell addressing guests at an event on the 50th anniversary of space travel, in More...
Why Mars again? A look at NASA’s latest venture
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NASA’s new robot rover named Curiosity landed safely late Sunday in a huge crater near the equator of Mars and will soon begin its scientific studies. This marks NASA’s seventh More...
New study links current events to global warming
SETH BORENSTEIN,AP Science Writer In this Sept. 30, 2011 file photo, Sailboats and a floating dock lie on the dry, cracked dirt in a harbor at Lake Hefner in Oklahoma City as drought continues to be a problem across More...
NASA picks 3 private firms to develop space taxis
SETH BORENSTEIN,AP Science Writer This artist's rendering provided by Sierra Nevada Space Systems shows the company's Dream Chaser spacecraft docking with the International Space Station. NASA has picked More...
Thousands of fish die as Midwest streams heat up
GRANT SCHULTE,Associated press In this July 26, 2012 photo, dead fish decompose in a drying pond near Rock Port, Mo. Multitudes of fish are dying in the Midwest as the sizzling summer dries up rivers and raises More...
Photos illustrate Mars rover’s precise landing
ALICIA CHANG,AP Science Writer This Aug. 26, 2003 image made available by NASA shows Mars photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope on the planet's closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years. NASAs robotic More...
Touchdown: NASA rover Curiosity lands on Mars
ALICIA CHANG,AP Science Writer Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity team member Miguel San Martin, Chief Engineer, Guidance, Navigation, and Control at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, left, celebrates with Adam Steltzner, More...
Lobstermen finding more odd colored lobsters in the catch
CLARKE CANFIELD,Associated Press This file photo made Tuesday, June 26, 2012, by Rebecca McAleney, shows a bright orange, left, a bright blue, right, and a calico lobster at New Meadows Lobster in Portland, Maine. More...
New lab working on security shoe sole to ID people
Security shoe the future of clothing technology? KEVIN BEGOS,Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — High-tech security? Forget those irksome digital eye scans. Meet the biometric shoe. A new lab is working to perfect More...
Former Kennedy Space Center director dies
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Forrest McCartney, a former director of Kennedy Space Center who was crucial in getting NASA’s shuttles flying again after the Challenger tragedy, More...
Flash drought forecasted to last until Halloween
SETH BORENSTEIN,AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The unusually hot dry weather that has gripped the nation will not let up its stranglehold over the next few months, federal weather forecasters said Thursday. And More...
Glacier in north Greenland breaks off huge iceberg
SETH BORENSTEIN,AP Science Writer This Monday, July 16, 2012 satellite image provided by NASA shows calving, crescent-shaped crack at center, on the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland. An iceberg twice More...
NASA plans for Mars mission in 2030s
RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI,Associated Press Current dehydrated food for near earth missions, which was developed for zero gravity preparation at NASA's Advanced Food Technology Project at Johnson Space Center, More...
Tens of thousands rally in Japan to end nuke power
YURI KAGEYAMA,Associated Press Protesters carry anti-nuclear placards during a march in Tokyo, Monday, July 16, 2012. Tens of thousands of people gathered at a Tokyo park, demanding Sayonara, or goodbye, More...
Soyuz rocket launches on mission to space station
DMITRY LOVETSKY,Associated Press The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-05M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off from the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, More...
Solar storm barreling toward Earth this weekend
ALICIA CHANG,AP Science Writer This image captured in the 304 Angstrom wavelength, which is typically colorized in red provided by NASA shows a solar flare, lower center, erupting from the sun on Thursday, More...
Apple returns to environmental ratings list
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc. said Friday that it is putting its products back on an environmental ratings registry, saying it made a mistake in removing them from the list. The Cupertino, Calif., company said all More...
What is polonium-210 and how can it kill?
JILL LAWLESS,Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. A Friday, May 10, 2002 photo More...
Wait for it: Earth adds leap second Saturday night
SETH BORENSTEIN,AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Saturday night will stretch longer by a second. A leap second. International timekeepers are adding a second to the clock at midnight universal time Saturday, More...
Asteroid hunters want to launch private telescope
ALICIA CHANG,AP Science Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Who will protect us from a killer asteroid? A team of ex-NASA astronauts and scientists thinks it’s up to them. In a bold plan unveiled Thursday, the group More...
Evidence of ‘God particle’ found
FILE - In this May 20, 2011 file photo, a wall painting by artist Josef Kristofoletti is seen at the Atlas experiment site at the European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, outside Geneva, Switzerland. The painting More...
