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Scientists: China bird virus likely silent threat
BEIJING (AP) — Scientists taking a first look at the genetics of a bird flu strain that has killed three people in China said Wednesday that the virus could be harder to track than its better-known...
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Robot hot among surgeons but FDA taking fresh look
CHICAGO (AP) — The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year — triple the number just...
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Japan increasingly nervous about North Korea nukes
TOKYO (AP) — It’s easy to write off North Korea’s threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as bluster: It has never demonstrated the capability to deploy a missile that...
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Fox affiliates ‘on board’ with pay TV plan
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Television stations that relay Fox programming are “on board” with a threat to transition the over-the-air network to cable and satellite TV if Internet startup Aereo keeps...
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Nobel prizewinner, IVF pioneer Robert Edwards dead
LONDON (AP) — Robert Edwards, a Nobel prizewinner from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby and has since brought millions of people into the world,...
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Court: Can human genes be patented?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed worried Monday about the idea of companies patenting genes that can be found inside the human body, as it heard arguments in a case that could profoundly...
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Activists disrupt W.Va. mining, science symposium
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two environmental activists have been charged with trespassing, unlawful assembly and obstruction after disrupting a symposium intended to present new research on energy...
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Russian becomes world’s oldest spacewalker at 59
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut became the world’s oldest spacewalker Friday, joining a much younger cosmonaut’s son for a little maintenance work outside the...
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Lawmakers urge delay in control tower furloughs
WASHINGTON (AP) — As airport delays spread across the country, members of Congress on Tuesday urged the administration to postpone the furloughing of air traffic controllers to give the White House...
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As Boston buries its dead, more evidence gathered
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston area held funerals for two more of its dead Tuesday — including an 8-year-old boy — as evidence mounted that the older Tsarnaev brother had embraced a radical, anti-American...
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Review: ‘Madden NFL 25′ takes a victory lap
John Madden’s name has been synonymous with video-game football since 1988 — which means most current NFL players don’t remember a time when there wasn’t a “Madden” game to teach them the ins and...
View ArticleGoogle tests self-driving car at Virginia Tech
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Google is working with Virginia Tech researchers to bring its vision of cars that can drive themselves one step closer to reality. The technology company spent the past month in...
View ArticleIn Nokia acquisition, Microsoft tries to catch up
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s troubled smartphone business represents a daring $7.2 billion attempt by the software giant and a once-influential cellphone maker to catch up...
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In Nokia acquisition, Microsoft tries to catch up
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s troubled smartphone business represents a daring $7.2 billion attempt by the software giant and a once-influential cellphone maker to...
View ArticleNASA launches robotic explorer to moon from Va.
NASA’s newest robotic explorer rocketed into space late Friday, September 6, in an unprecedented moonshot from Virginia that dazzled sky watchers along the East Coast. But the LADEE spacecraft...
View ArticleLabs seeking sarin chemical signature: 99-125-81
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three simple numbers will prove whether sarin was used to gas Syrians last month: 99-125-81. Chemists this week around Europe are feeding samples of bodily tissue and dirt collected...
View ArticleClimate change threatens Caribbean’s water supply
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Experts are sounding a new alarm about the effects of climate change for parts of the Caribbean — the depletion of already strained drinking water throughout much of the...
View ArticleNASA launches drones from Va. to study storms
ATLANTIC, Va. (AP) — NASA scientists are using former military surveillance drones to help them understand more about how tropical storms intensify, which they say could ultimately save lives by...
View ArticleDocs: Officials misused US surveillance program
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. officials for nearly three years accessed data on thousands of domestic phone numbers they shouldn’t have and then misrepresented their actions to a secret spy court to...
View ArticleGoogle loses appeal in Street View snooping case
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court said Google wrongly collected people’s personal correspondence and online activities through their Wi-Fi systems as it drove down their streets with...
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