Study: Most shipwrecks a minor US pollution threat
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shipwrecks lying deep off America's coasts are more often historical artifacts than present-day threats from leaking old oil tanks, a new federal report says....
Alaska volcano's ash prompts flight cancellations
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- An Alaska volcano eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights to nearby communities, including a town that reported traces of fallen ash....
Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -- Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined....
Slow pokes: Acupuncture helps hypothermic turtles
QUINCY, Mass. (AP) -- Two endangered sea turtles that are shells of their former selves after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a cold spell are getting some help easing back into the wild - from an acupuncturist....
Mice return from a month in space
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind....
NASA: New pump resolves big space station leak
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- An impromptu spacewalk over the weekend seems to have fixed a big ammonia leak at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday....
NASA craft's planet-hunting days may be numbered
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system....
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