AP - A dog at a southeast Kansas zoo has adopted three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother. Safari Zoological Park owner Tom Harvey said the tiger cubs were born Sunday, but the mother had problems with them.
AFP - NASA scientists said Wednesday they had found liquid on Saturn's moon Titan, only the second body in the solar system after Earth to have fluid on its surface.
LiveScience.com - Some Southern Californians are said to have stampeded yesterday as they tried to evacuate a high-rise during the 5.4-magnitude quake outside Los Angeles. -- read full article
AP - Police divers checking a report of human remains off a Puerto Rican beach may have made an archaeological discovery: bones and possible artifacts from a colonial-era ship, officials in the U.S. island territory said Wednesday. -- read full article
AP - An astronomical calculator, considered a technological marvel of antiquity, was also used to track dates of the ancient Olympic games, researchers have found.
AP - At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn's moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday.
Reuters - International researchers have
identified three new DNA variations that increase the risk of
schizophrenia and said on Wednesday they were some of the
strongest genetic links yet found to the disease. -- read full article
AP - President Bush, on a campaign to open offshore waters to oil drilling, said Wednesday that the Democratic-run Congress was letting down the American people by refusing to allow votes on the matter.
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON
- NASA has delayed the launch of its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) aboard
a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from late this year until the end of
February at the earliest to make way for a military payload slated to fly atop
a similar vehicle. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - Biologists have sunk their teeth into the question of snake fang development, revealing how these poison prickers have evolved from regular teeth and allowed snakes to become such champion biters. -- read full article
AP - Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon.
Reuters - President George W. Bush on
Tuesday again called on Congress to pass legislation that would
give energy companies access to billions of barrels of oil in
U.S. waters where energy exploration is now banned.