Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin
AP - 27 minutes ago

ROME (AP) - A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.

Astronauts await word of baby girl on Earth
AP - 5 hours ago

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word on the birth of one crewman's daughter Friday, as they moved more supplies into the International Space Station and geared up for another spacewalk.

Biologists save fish after landslide
AP - 12 hours ago

NILE, Wash. (AP) - A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.

3 new ancient crocodile species fossils found
AP - 1 day ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs — like wild boar tusks — roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported Thursday. While this fearsome creature hunted meat, not far away another newly found type of croc with a wide, flat snout like a pancake was fishing for food.

U. of Neb. board votes down stem-cell rule changes
AP - 1 hour ago

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The University of Nebraska's governing board on Friday voted down a proposal to restrict the school's rules governing embryonic stem-cell research beyond what the federal government allows.

Researchers ask: Are caged chickens miserable?
AP - 1 day ago

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Are cramped chickens crazy chickens?

Calif. requires TVs to be more energy-efficient
AP - 1 day ago

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California regulators have adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions, a move that will eventually ban power-hungry sets from the state's store shelves.

UN: Fight climate change with free condoms
AP - 3 days ago

LONDON (AP) - The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.

Rare crocs found hiding in plain sight in Cambodia
AP - 3 days ago

BANGKOK (AP) - Conservationists searching for one of the world's most endangered crocodile species say they have found dozens of the reptiles lounging in plain sight — at a wildlife rescue center in Cambodia.

Meteor showers in Asia disappoint
AP - 3 days ago

NEW DELHI (AP) - Thousands of stargazers across Asia stayed awake overnight to catch a glimpse of what was advertised as an intense Leonid meteor shower, but the show fizzled rather than sizzled for many because of cloudy conditions.