Science: Reaching into virtual world
 This is how the Matrix begins: with Randy Bullion of La Center sitting in a white-walled lab, his right hand extended, grabbing at nothing.
The inter... |
Science: Ingenuity yields habitat
 RIDGEFIELD - You'd scarcely notice while gazing at grebes or eyeing egrets, but the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge is not strictly "natural&... |
Science: Healthy Victory
 The few remaining yellow pills rattling around in the plastic bottle cost about $50 apiece, but that's not how Paul and Greta Hutchison measured their... |
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Mexico starts campaign to save endangered porpoise
 ENSENADA, Mexico (AP) -- Mexico said Wednesday it will invest 163 million pesos ($16 million) to save a highly endangered species of porpoise in the upper Gulf of California, asking reluctant fishermen to adopt safer methods or give up their trade entirely. Scientis... |
Climate negotiators reconvene this week in Ghana
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- Negotiators meet in Ghana this week to resume work on a new climate change treaty and discuss ways to prod developing countries to join the fight against global warming. But the latest round of talks comes at an awkward moment, with the world's... |
Dallas Zoo drops plan to ship elephant to Mexico
 DALLAS (AP) -- Jenny the lonely elephant, whose pending move from the Dallas Zoo to Mexico had angered activists, isn't going anywhere after all. The Dallas Zoo announced Wednesday that the roughly 10,000-pound pachyderm will remain at her home of 22 years and will... |
NASA fixes moonship shaking with shock absorbers
 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A space-age version of the rusty springs under old pickup trucks will help NASA fix the most pressing technical problem with its high-tech new rocket to send astronauts back to the moon. NASA is going to use 17 super-sized shock absorbers in its n... |
Group says climate resolutions increase
 CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Support for climate-change proposals may be growing among investors in big U.S. companies. Shareholder resolutions related to climate change more than doubled over the past five years, according to statistics gathered by a coalition of publ... |
Stem cell advance may help transfusion supplies
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists say they've found an efficient way to make red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, a possible step toward making transfusion supplies in the laboratory. The promise of a virtually limitless supply is tantalizing because of blood... |
Researchers say numbers aren't needed to count
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Answer this without counting: Are there more X's here XXXXXX, or here XXXXX? That's a problem facing people whose languages don't include words for more than one or two. Yet researchers say children who speak those languages are still able to comp... |
Prospects grim for abandoned baby whale in Sydney
 SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- A hungry and abandoned humpback whale calf that has been trying to suckle from boats in the waters off north Sydney rebuffed fresh attempts by wildlife workers to return it to the open ocean Wednesday and appeared to be weakening. The 1- to... |
Clinton: US should demonstrate energy solutions
 LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The United States can capture the world's imagination by creating an energy independent state, territory or nation, former President Bill Clinton told an energy summit. "We have got to convince people this can be done and it would be good economics... |
Australian PM urges more US climate change action
 WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged the United States on Tuesday to take more action on climate change and become more involved in the global debate on the issue. As the only developed nation not to sign the greenhouse gas-cont... |
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I’ll quote George Washington: I cannot tell a lie.
Two hollow tubes wrapped around my chest and abdomen are measuring my breathing, a b...
Check out your window, or drive around Vancouver, and you may notice a curious sight for the middle of February:
Oak trees boast some serious...