New family of legless amphibians found in India
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India - unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake....
Radiation detected 400 miles off Japanese coast
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Radioactive contamination from the Fukushima power plant disaster has been detected as far as almost 400 miles off Japan in the Pacific Ocean, with water showing readings of up to 1,000 times more than prior levels, scientists reported Tuesday....
Glenn marks 50 years since historic orbit of Earth
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- John Glenn made his historic spaceflight alone in 1962 but celebrated its 50th anniversary Monday among hundreds of people within his orbit, from fellow headline-making astronauts and NASA's administrator to family, friends and students at Ohio State University, where the public affairs school bears his name....
Russians revive Ice Age flower from frozen burrow
MOSCOW (AP) -- It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species....
Italian Nobel medicine winner Dulbecco dies at 97
ROME (AP) -- Renato Dulbecco, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in medicine for his seminal research on the interaction between tumors and cells, has died in California. He was 97....
China's next space mission to carry 3 astronauts
BEIJING (AP) -- China's next space mission will carry three astronauts who will dock with and live inside an experimental orbiting module launched last year, state media said Friday....
China faces conflict of law, business in iPad row
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese officials face a choice in Apple's dispute with a local company over the iPad trademark - side with a struggling entity that a court says owns the name or with a global brand that has created hundreds of thousands of jobs in China. Experts say that means Beijing's political priorities rather than the courts will settle the dispute if it escalates....
INFLUENCE GAME: Leaks show group's climate efforts
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Leaked documents from a prominent conservative think tank show how it sought to teach schoolchildren skepticism about global warming and planned other behind-the-scenes tactics using millions of dollars in donations from big corporate names....
Nigeria's ex-leader to meet Senegal opposition
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is in Senegal to observe and help mediate a solution to this weekend's contentious election, is meeting opposition candidates on Wednesday....
