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Neanderthal man speaks after 30,000 years
It's been 30,000 years since Neanderthals walked the earth, but now we can hear what they sounded like, according to a Florida anthropologist.
Bush gets mixed reviews at climate change summit
-- A new U.S. call for curbing greenhouse gas emissions shook up climate talks Thursday in Paris among the world's biggest polluters.
Briefing: Nuclear power
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New Mexico fights to protect the lynx
A coalition of conservation and animal protection groups on Monday sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to force it to extend federal protection to Canada lynx in New Mexico.
Living on the green side
U.N. expert: Food crisis 'a silent tsunami'
Those battling global warming by promoting biofuels may unintentionally be adding to skyrocketing world food prices, creating what one expert calls "a silent tsunami" in developing nations
Greenhouse gases on rise, U.S. agency warns
Major greenhouse gases are accumulating in the air faster than they had been despite efforts to curtail the growth.
Restoration projects recharging rivers
Rosemary Lowe scoops up a shovel of dirt and dumps it into a hole around the base of a slender cottonwood tree.
Nuclear NRG
David Crane is a man who isn't afraid of a challenge. When he took the helm at NRG Energy in the winter of 2003, the company was mired in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings -- just one of many compan
Chickens, T. rex birds of a feather
It looks like chickens deserve more respect.
Custom wetsuit protects patchy penguin
What's black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally.
Antibody test faster, cheaper than DNA profiling
Federal researchers say they have developed a human identification test that's faster and possibly cheaper than DNA testing. It would be a handy new weapon in the arsenal for detectives, forensic ex
Judge deciding if polar bears are endangered
A federal judge has ordered the government to decide within 16 days whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming.
Huge squid has world's largest eye, say scientists
Scientists studying the carcass of what they call the heaviest squid ever found have discovered it has eyes as big as soccer balls -- reportedly the largest in the world.
130-million-year-old poop sells for $960
A pile of dinosaur dung 130 million years old sold at a New York auction Wednesday for nearly $1,000.
NASA goes low-tech to fix high-tech problem
To fix a potentially fatal shaking problem on its snazzy new moon rocket, NASA is considering something that works for mud-stained pickups: heavy-duty shock absorbers. For nearly half a year, NASA's
Soyuz capsule misses landing target
carrying South Korea's first astronaut landed in northern Kazakhstan Saturday, 260 miles off its mark, Russian space officials said.
Soyuz crew endures severe G-forces on re-entry
Russian space officials say the crew of the Soyuz space ship is resting after a rough ride back to Earth.
