Business
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:21:26 GMT
AP - The La Nina climate phenomenon is strengthening, increasing the likelihood an active hurricane season could get even busier.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:52:15 GMT
AP - John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study.
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:26:58 GMT
AP - The weird world of dinosaurs has just gotten a tad more bizarre. Scientists found a nearly complete fossil of a new dinosaur that sports a noticeable hump, maybe as possible advertising.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:20:26 GMT
LiveScience.com - A five-minute brain scan can reveal the maturity of a child's brain, according to a new study. The results could be used to track abnormal brain development and catch brain disorders like autism early.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:42:27 GMT
AP - Alabama seafood market owner David Scott faces a difficult decision as he tries to rejuvenate his business after the Gulf oil spill: He can accept a piece of BP's $20 billion claims fund — relatively fast, easy money — or sue the oil giant for a bigger payday, wait years and risk ending up with nothing.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:55:19 GMT
AFP - US energy giant Chevron will explore for oil in three deepwater oil wells off Liberia in West Africa, a region which has yielded massive oil finds in recent years.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:30:10 GMT
SPACE.com - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Space shuttle Discovery rolled out from its hangar for the last time early Thursday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, beginning the first leg of its final mission into space.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:19:20 GMT
AP - French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA says it's sticking to its original offer of $69 per share to buy U.S. biotech company Genzyme Corp.
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:03:00 GMT
AP - The unprecedented turtle rescue effort at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is winding down.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:32:32 GMT
AP - Federal officials say they're stepping up plans to release sea turtles that were stranded and rescued during the Gulf oil spill and study how they've been affected.
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:24:01 GMT
AFP - Palaeontologists in Spain have discovered the remains of a strange dinosaur with a hump that they believe is the forerunner of flesh-eating leviathans which once ruled the planet.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:16:12 GMT
Y! Green - ECTunes founders Jesper Rasmussen and Thomas Gadegaard (in car): a business opportunity. (Credit: ECTunes)
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:08:42 GMT
AP - Tropical Depression Hermine was expected to continue producing significant rainfall as it lifted northward into southern Kansas on Thursday.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:00:41 GMT
SPACE.com - A photograph of a weird cosmic spiral in deep space taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is no trick of light it's astrophysics in action, scientists say.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:33:16 GMT
AFP - A US appeals court suspended Thursday a ban on state-funding for embryonic stem cell research pending a full appeal of the case, in a major boost to President Barack Obama's administration.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:46:17 GMT
Reuters - British Members of Parliament (MPs) will next week grill outgoing BP Plc Chief Executive Tony Hayward, as part of an investigation into risks around deepwater drilling in the North Sea.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:30:47 GMT
AP - Authorities in Texas say it is unlikely they will find alive two missing swimmers swept away by floodwaters from the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine (hur-MEEN').
