Lots of eggs, but no babies for Galapagos tortoise
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- By this point in his long life, Lonesome George should be at least a grandfather. But even fatherhood appears to be eluding the Galapagos tortoise, estimated to be between 75...
Human noise drowns out song of whales
ROME (AP) -- The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world's oceans, U.N. officials and environmental...
Scientists ask: Is technology rewiring our brains?
NEW YORK (AP) -- What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people? These...
Deadline for global climate treaty in question
POZNAN, Poland (AP) — Negotiators from 190 countries agreed a year ago to complete a new global warming treaty by the end of 2009 that would force governments to reduce carbon emissions. That...
Multitasking canola: A California miracle crop?
FIVE POINTS, Calif. (AP) -- A hardy but pedestrian plant is doing triple duty in California's agricultural heartland. Farmers, water managers and agriculture researchers are closely watching an...
Patient photos aid docs reading faceless CT scans
CHICAGO (AP) -- Imagine sitting in a dark room all day, evaluating CT scans and other medical images on a computer screen but never actually seeing real patients. That's life for many radiologists....
Search for ivory-billed woodpecker to begin anew
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Last year, Allan Mueller thinks he saw the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker. The wildlife biologist wants to make sure of it this winter. Mueller plans to head back into the...
Ex-bad boy China praised at climate talks
POZNAN, Poland (AP) -- Once global warming's bad boy, China is now winning praise for its upbeat role in climate talks, a turnaround perhaps brought on by the effects of carbon emissions on its...
Frozen in time: Shelters reveal WWII nightmare
CAEN, France (AP) -- The memories are 64 years old but retold with the clarity of yesterday: a young boy lowered by rope into a deep dark cave, watching the sky above shrink to a small and distant...
Bison roundup shows species' recovery on prairie
PAWHUSKA, Okla. (AP) -- It's 6 a.m. and the cowboys are already downing second and third cups of coffee, adjusting to a 35-degree morning. Slowly, a full moon and stars give way to hues of orange sky....
Science News
AP poll: Few Obama, McCain backers were unwaveringWASHINGTON (AP) -- Inch by inch, voter by voter, Barack Obama and John McCain labored for more than a year to lock down supporters and woo defectors. It turns out, though, that the nation's voters...
Researchers find Trouvadore slave ship
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of...
Thanksgiving in space: stiff turkey, bland yams
HOUSTON (AP) -- The smoked turkey resembles sliced deli meat but stiffer, the candied yams are bland inside, the green beans taste like they've been microwaved to death and the corn bread stuffing...
Nap without guilt: It boosts sophisticated memory
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just in time for the holidays, some medical advice most people will like: Take a nap. Interrupting sleep seriously disrupts memory-making, compelling new research suggests. But on...
To some psychiatric patients, life seems like TV
NEW YORK (AP) -- One man showed up at a federal building, asking for release from the reality show he was sure was being made of his life. Another was convinced his every move was secretly being...
Foes of stem cell research now face tough battle
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When the Bush presidency ends, opponents of embryonic stem cell research will face a new political reality that many feel powerless to stop. President-elect Barack Obama is...
New tobacco product alarms some health officials
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- They're discreet, flavorful and come in cute tin boxes with names like "frost" and "spice." And the folks who created Joe Camel are hoping Camel Snus will become a hit with...
Fabulous flippers: Dolphins have quite the kick
TROY, N.Y. (AP) -- Dolphins have a kick that would make Michael Phelps jealous -- 212 pounds worth. How dolphins are able to swim so fast first preoccupied researchers back in 1936, when zoologist...
Scholar finds Mayans' buried highway through hell
TZIBICHEN CENOTE, Mexico (AP) — Legend says the afterlife for ancient Mayas was a terrifying obstacle course in which the dead had to traverse rivers of blood, and chambers full of sharp knives, bats...
Natural gas rush stirs environmental concerns
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Advanced drilling techniques that blast millions of gallons of water into 400-million-year-old shale formations a mile underground are opening up "unconventional" gas fields...
NEW YORK (AP) -- In one classroom, a group of preschool teachers squatted on the floor, pretending to be cave-dwelling hunter-gatherers. Next door, another group ended a raucous musical game by...
Boll weevils near extinction in Mississippi
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- A small insect pest that drove many Mississippi cotton farmers to the brink of despair a few years ago now finds its days numbered. Boll weevils could be counted in the...
Researchers push butanol as biofuel answer
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Ethanol might reign as the king of biofuels, but several companies are betting that a close cousin may overcome some of its shortcomings. Butanol has traditionally been...
Coloring on the other side of the brain
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Learning the name of a color changes the part of the brain that handles color perception. Infants perceive color in the right hemisphere of the brain, researchers report, while...
Ginkgo fails to prevent Alzheimer's in large study
CHICAGO (AP) -- The dietary supplement ginkgo, long promoted as an aid to memory, didn't help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the longest and largest test of the extract in older...
Astronauts end space walk marred by lost tool bag
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A spacewalking astronaut accidentally let go of her tool bag Tuesday after a grease gun inside it exploded, and helplessly watched as the tote and everything inside...
Sea Turtles
(LifeWire) - While some people dedicate their summer nights to cookouts and fireworks, tourists on Costa Rica's northern Caribbean coast stroll the palm-lined beach of Tortuguero National Park to...
