AP - France will build a second new-generation nuclear reactor, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday, pledging a "new industrial revolution" in an era in which fossil fuels have grown too expensive.
SPACE.com - A NASA spacecraft's first flyby of Mercury has yielded a wealth of information about the inner-most planet, some of which confirms volcanism occurred there, settling a longstanding debate. -- read full article
AP - Severe thunderstorms swept across parts of Michigan, flooding streets and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of residents. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - A woman recovering from a stroke is one of the first reported cases in Canada of a rare brain syndrome in which a person starts to speak with a different accent. -- read full article
AP - From climate change to volcanoes and earthquakes, the world's growing challenges have leaders in earth science proposing a merger of agencies that study the planet. -- read full article
AP - A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra — but don't necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long.
Reuters - A Chinese man who bought an emaciated
pig who survived for 36 days under rubble after May's massive
Sichuan earthquake and promised to care for it for life has
been given an award by an animal rights group.
Reuters - The solar system may not be a nice
round shape, but rather a bit squashed and oblong, according to
data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft exploring the solar system's
outer limits, scientists said on Wednesday.
LiveScience.com - Ancient hunters painted the sections of their cave dwellings where singing, humming and music sounded best, a new study suggests. -- 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.
AP - New green rubber bands that will bind the claws of Massachusetts lobsters beginning this weekend won't save the lobsters from the dinner table. But they signify a state initiative aimed at saving whales.
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.
