AP - The Phoenix lander's first chemical sniff of Martian soil did not turn up any trace of the building blocks of life. Its next whiff could be its last.
AP - As crude soared to a new record, the head of the International Energy Agency declared that the world was in the grip of an "oil shock," and the president of OPEC acknowledged he could not say whether prices would flatten out or continue to soar.
AFP - Some endangered species may face an extinction risk that is up to a hundred times greater than previously thought, according to a study released Wednesday.
SPACE.com - Voyager 2's journey toward interstellar space has revealed
surprising insights into the energy and magnetic forces at the solar system's
outer edge, and confirmed the solar system's squashed shape.
LiveScience.com - When "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" hits the big screen on July 11,
it won't just be comic book aficionados salivating over the lush,
fantasy-world storyline. -- read full article
AP - The archaeologists were delighted to at last find the remains of George Washington's boyhood home but got stumped when they looked for evidence of the cherry tree and rusty hatchet. -- read full article
AP - When viewed from the rest of the galaxy, the edge of our solar system appears slightly dented as if a giant hand is pushing one edge of it inward, far-traveling NASA probes reveal. -- read full article
AFP - World oil traded higher in Asia near record levels Wednesday after OPEC's president talked of uncertainty surrounding future investment in energy facilities to boost crude output.
AP - The Pentagon will buy and operate one or two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build another with more sophisticated spying capabilities, according to government and private industry officials.
AP - A new poll shows high gasoline prices have dramatically changed Americans' views on energy and the environment. More people now say expanding oil drilling and building new power plants is a bigger priority than energy conservation. -- read full article
AFP - Hundreds of anti-seal hunt demonstrators held a protest outside European Union headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, demanding that the 27-nation bloc impose a total ban on seal products from Canada and elsewhere.
AFP - The European Commission invited bids on Tuesday for contractors to participate in the construction of the European Union's much delayed Galileo satellite navigation network.
