- Dirty teeth reveal ancient diet
(AP)
AP - Thanks to poor dental hygiene, researchers are getting a more detailed understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago in what is now Peru.
- Space shuttle glides to safe landing in California
(AP)
AP - Space shuttle Endeavour slipped out of a brilliant desert sky and touched down safely in California after a nearly 16-day mission to repair and upgrade the international space station.
- Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops
(AP)
AP - Zeng Yawen’s outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential — rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron.
- Mandates driving surge to the river for hydropower
(AP)
AP - Many decades ago, cost-conscious Henry Ford turned to hydroelectric plants to power his car factories like the one by the Great Miami River, near this Cincinnati suburb. That assembly plant is long gone, but the power plant and the technology behind it isn’t.
- Some Men Need Mammograms
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Mammograms are pretty commonly sought by women, especially once they hit 40. But men, who represent 1 percent of all breast cancer cases,
are much less likely to get mammograms, in part due to stigma. Breast
cancer kills some 40,000 women and about 450 men in the United States
each year, according to the National Institutes of Health.
- 30-mile debris pile becomes symbol of FEMA delays
(AP)
AP - A 30-mile scar of debris along the Texas coast stands as a festering testament to what state and local officials say is FEMA’s sluggish response to the 2008 hurricane season.
- Endeavour touches down in California
(Reuters)
Reuters - Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour wrapped up a 16-day mission to prepare the International Space Station for its first six-member crew with a flawless touchdown at NASA’s backup landing site in California.
- Congo’s war-baby gorillas bring hope for endangered species
(AFP)
AFP - High above the war-battered plain, a giant silverback gorilla ruminatively strips a plant of its leaves with green tombstone teeth. Five females nearby suckle their babies. The world can celebrate a small miracle in eastern Congo.
- Shell game: How the turtle got its home
(AFP)
AFP - A stunningly intact 220-million-year-old fossil found in southwestern China appears to have settled a long-simmering debate over reptile evolution: how did turtles get their shell?
- High court turns down pipeline company appeal
(AP)
AP - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a pipeline company over denial of environmental permits for a proposed natural gas pipeline through Long Island Sound.
