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LATEST NEWS

• Sara the Walrus 'Plays' the Saxophone in Istanbul, Coo Coo Kachoo
• Last Tortoise of Species Mates, Fails to Become Father
• Knut the Polar Bear Being Evicted From Berlin Zoo
• How Green Is Carbon Trading?
• Scientists Fear Technology May Be Rewiring Our Brains
• Best Female Figure Not an Hourglass, Scientist Says
• Possum May Be Extinct Due to Global Warming
• Swedish Experiment Makes People 'Swap' Bodies
• Search Back On for Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
• Scientists Dance Own Dissertations in YouTube Sensation
• This Year's Hurricane Season Set New Records
• Congolese Civil War Threatens Gorillas, Forests
• Male Polar Bear in Zoo Turns Out to Be Female
• World's Rarest Turtle Nearly Becomes Soup
• Radical Greens Reject Most Climate-Change Solutions

AGRICULTURE & BOTANY

• Surprise! Bananas Glow Blue Under Black Light
• Wood Power Makes Comeback in Midst of Fuel Crisis
• Poachers, Houses Crowd Out Venus Flytraps in Carolinas
• Stressed Plants Release Aspirin-Like Chemical
• Scientist: Western Aid Agencies Keep Africa Poor
• Surprising Truths About Fruits and Vegetables
• Eight New 'Natural Wonders of World' Named
• Eight New 'Natural Wonders of World' Named
• U.S. Government Decoding DNA of Chocolate
• English Crop Circle's Mysterious Pattern Solved
• Tree Grown From Ancient Seed Found in Jewish Fortress
• Study: Green Plants Keep Office Workers Happier
• Scientists to Build Database of Tree DNA
• Missouri Botanist Rediscovers Strange Parasitic Plant
• Australian Wasp Fooled Into Having Sex With Flowers

ARTHROPODS

• Spider Missing Aboard International Space Station
• Ravenous Asian Beetles Devour New England Trees
• Strange Stick Bug Is World's Longest Insect
• Strange 'Ant From Mars' Discovered in Amazon Rainforest
• Why Female Spiders Eat Their Mates: Because They Can
• Rapid Evolution Gives Sperm Big Advantage
• Honey Bee Shortage Might Cause Food Price Hike, Farmers Tell Congress
• Study: Bee Species Outnumber Those of Birds, Mammals
• Honeybees Can Learn Foreign 'Languages'
• Bizarre Crustaceans Undergo Evolution in Reverse
• Spider Species Named After Rocker Neil Young
• Mysterious Deaths of Honeybees on Upswing
• Gender-Bending Barnacles Grow Huge Penises in Rough Waters
• Tuxedo-Wearing Beetle Named After Roy Orbison
• Queen Honeybees Keep Harems of Dancing Males

BIRDS

• Search Back On for Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
• Scientists Find New Penguin, Extinct for 500 Years
• Brazil Airlifts Hundreds of Penguins to Colder Waters
• Ostriches Kicked Out of Own Family
• Hundreds of Dying Baby Penguins Wash Up on Brazilian Beaches
• DNA Study Revamps Birds' Family Tree
• Wounded Bald Eagle Gets Her Bionic Beak
• Study: Makeup Makes Male Birds Sexier, More Macho
• Female Albatrosses Set Up Same-Sex Partnerships
• Wounded Bald Eagle May Get Bionic Beak
• Young Birds Found to Babble Like Babies
• Hawk Clawed Open by Own Last Meal
• Miniature Wetsuit Puts Balding Penguin Back in Play
• Wind Farms May Pose Danger to Whooping Cranes
• Surviving Fish-Guts Eagles Close to Recovery

CHEMISTRY

• 3 Win Nobel Chemistry Prize for Protein Discovery
• Company Creates Hard-to-Ignite Fertilizer to Foil Bomb-Makers
• Study: U.S. Paper Money Covered With Cocaine
• Mortuaries Mull Dissolving Bodies as Burial, Cremation Alternative
• Canadian Brewery Seeks Answer to 'Beer Chill' Problem
• New Protein Antifreeze Improves Ice Cream
• Stamp Honoring Scientist Contains Chemical Error
• Germany's Gerhard Ertl Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Molecular Structure Predicts If Something Smells Good
• Chemists Figure Out What Makes Coffee Bitter
• Scientist: Ethanol Would Cause More Pollution Than Gasoline
• American Wins Chemistry Nobel for Genetics Work
• Study: Earth May Have Been Oxygenated Much Earlier
• Scientists: Nature's Fundamental Laws May Be Changing
• New Research Suggests Simple Approach to Beginning of Life

CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL WARMING & METEOROLOGY

• How Green Is Carbon Trading?
• Possum May Be Extinct Due to Global Warming
• This Year's Hurricane Season Set New Records
• Radical Greens Reject Most Climate-Change Solutions
• Co-Eds Take Off Underwear to Be 'Green'
• Rubber Duckies to Help Track Speed of Melting Glaciers
• Huge Brown Cloud Over Asia Worsens Global Warming
• Frozen Natural Gas Could Solve Energy Crisis
• Killer Tornadoes More Likely to Strike at Night
• What Exactly Is Clean Coal?
• Harlem Teacher Conducts Class on Global Warming — From Antarctica
• Prince Charles Says Climate Change Trumps Economic Crisis
• Warming Climate Changing Thoreau's Walden Pond
• Potent Greenhouse Gas More Prevalent Than Thought
• Hurricanes Might Help Fight Global Warming

DNA, GENETICS & HEREDITY

• Future Office-Seekers May Have to Disclose DNA
• Researchers Find 'Transsexual Gene'
• 'Iceman' Alpine Mummy May Have Been Last of His Kind
• Ancient Phoenicians Left Genetic Markers Around Mediterranean
• Scientists' Entire DNA Sequences to Be Posted on Web
• Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution
• DNA Could Land Dog Owners in Deep Doo-Doo
• Study: 'Gay' Genes May Make Females More Fertile
• Extinct Tasmanian Tiger's DNA Revived in Mice
• How DNA Could Reveal Relationships of Texas Sect
• Market for Personal Gene Scans Raises Questions
• American Indian Ancestry Traced Back to Six Women
• Whites Genetically Weaker Than Blacks, Study Finds
• DNA Molecules Display Telepathic Abilities
• Japanese Scientists Create Fearless Mouse

FISH & SHARKS

• Scientists: Disconnect Great Lakes, Mississippi Watershed
• Gigantic Salmon Found in California River
• Strange Fish Found Thriving Five Miles Deep in Pacific
• Second Case of 'Virgin Birth' Found in Sharks
• Ugly Fish May Need Federal Protection
• Glowing Red Fish Found in Red Sea
• Huge Pacific Fish Identified as New Species
• Poisonous Lionfish Invade Caribbean, Head Up Eastern Seaboard
• Ancient Shark's Bite Was More Powerful Than T. Rex's
• Incredible Fish Armor Could Suit Soldiers
• Scientist's Quest for 'Megafish' Leads Him to Giant Freshwater Stingray
• Great White Shark Carcass Found on Nantucket Island Beach
• Biologist: Post-'Nemo' Demand Threatens Clownfish
• Huge Sharks 'Fly' Like Fighter Pilots Underwater
• Pennsylvania Man Teaches Goldfish to Do Tricks

GEOLOGY & SEISMOLOGY

• Russian Quake Leaves Western U.S. Jittery
• Ancient Chinese Mysteries Solved by Cave Rocks
• Buried Antarctic Mountain Range Shouldn't Exist at All
• Earth's Magnetic Field Expected to Flip Soon
• Ice Age Features Found at World Trade Center Site
• Hurricane Ike Shows Futility of Building on Barrier Islands
• Huge Ancient Lake Discovered in Russia
• Volcanic Eruption Giving Earth Spectacular Sunsets
• Study: Large Earthquake Could Strike New York City
• Believers in Flat Earth Not About to Change Minds
• Southern California Hot Spot Hits 812 Degrees, Baffles Experts
• San Andreas Fault Longer Than Thought
• Ancient Rock Reunites Antarctica, North America
• River of Crystals 'Flows' Through New Mexico Cave
• Fossils Reveal Much Warmer Antarctic in Recent Past

THE HUMAN MIND & BODY

• Scientists Fear Technology May Be Rewiring Our Brains
• Best Female Figure Not an Hourglass, Scientist Says
• Swedish Experiment Makes People 'Swap' Bodies
• Nursing-Home Sex Becoming More Acceptable
• Musical Training Makes Kids Smarter, Study Suggests
• The Science Behind Michael Crichton's Thrillers
• Study: Looks Count for Female Candidates, but Not Male Ones
• Red on Women Drives Men Wild
• Guilt, Not Religion, Makes People Do Good
• Study: Tennis Players Should Always Challenge Line Calls
• Stress Can Make You Itch, Study Indicates
• Study: Internet Use Reshapes Human Brain
• Study: Warm Hands Do Lead to Warmer Feelings
• Altruism Makes Men More Attractive to Women, Study Finds
• Study: Church Pastors Too Quick to Dismiss Mental Illness

MAMMALS

• Sara the Walrus 'Plays' the Saxophone in Istanbul, Coo Coo Kachoo
• Knut the Polar Bear Being Evicted From Berlin Zoo
• Congolese Civil War Threatens Gorillas, Forests
• Male Polar Bear in Zoo Turns Out to Be Female
• Dems Race to Block Bush Environmental Rule Changes
• Two-Faced Kitten Born in Australia
• Oldest Polar Bear Dies a Month Shy of 42nd Birthday
• Tiny Primates Found Alive Again in Indonesian Rainforest
• Kangaroos, Humans Not So Different When It Comes to DNA
• Legal Ivory Auctions End With $15 Million Sold
• Deadly Bat Epidemic Mystery Solved
• Tasmanian Devils Could Be Gone in 20 Years
• Fatal Tiger Attacks On Rise in South Asian Swamps
• Polar Bear Rescued After Two Weeks in Zoo Moat
• Wyoming Tweaks Plans to Shoot Gray Wolves

MATHEMATICS

• Mathematician: Tampa Bay Devil Rays Likely to Win World Series
• Mathematicians Make Three-Dimensional Images of Music
• Mathematicians Build 'Perfect' Terrorist Cell
• Math Team Solves 248-Dimensional Puzzle
• Fans of Pi Have Their Day
• Study: Countries That Hate Math Do Better at It
• Japanese Man Recites First 100,000 Digits of Pi
• Mysterious Mathematician Solves Problem, Refuses Award
• Study: Babies Can Do Math at Six Months
• Chinese, English Speakers Use Brains Differently to Tackle Math
• Virginia Boy, 15, Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

MICROBIOLOGY

• Fuel-Making Fungus Challenges Oil Creation Theory
• Fungi Caught Having Sex in Humans
• New Species of Bacteria Found in Ancient Roman Tombs
• Study: Chesapeake Bay Asteroid Impact Didn't Kill Everything
• Scientists Find Microbes That Eat Garbage, Excrete Crude Oil
• Bacteria Survive 120,000 Years Under Greenland Ice
• Strange Earth Life Gives Hope for Same on Mars
• Tiny Microbes Found Thriving Mile Below Seafloor
• Two Bacteria Species Merging Into One
• Viruses Found Transmitting Genes Among Bacteria
• Scientists Find Way to Shake Viruses to Death
• Earth's Clouds Alive With Bacteria
• Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found in Arctic
• Methane-Eating Bacteria Could Save the World
• Bacteria Used to Generate Hydrogen From Garbage

OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE BIOLOGY

• Wondrous Creatures Found in Deep Ocean
• Underwater Explorer Jacques Piccard Dies at 86
• Study: 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Was Biggest in 600 Years
• How Green Is a Reef Burial?
• Starbucks Accused of Wasting Huge Amount of Water
• Hundreds of New Species Found in Australian Reefs
• Research: Octopuses Have Six 'Arms,' Two 'Legs'
• Top Democrats Spar Over Invasive-Species Bill
• Hurricane Dolly Helps Shrink Gulf 'Dead Zone'
• Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone' Bigger Than Ever
• Eight New 'Natural Wonders of World' Named
• Eight New 'Natural Wonders of World' Named
• NOAA: Warming Seas Killing U.S. Coral Reefs
• Species-Naming Program to Give Immortality to Some
• Giant Squid Found Floating Off California Coast

OTHER ANIMALS

• How 'Worm Grunting' Drives Earthworms Above Ground
• Tiny Water Bug Able to Survive in Space
• Bigfoot Hoaxers Resurface, Blame California Promoter
• Bigfoot Hoaxers Still On the Lam
• Bigfoot Body Revealed to Be Halloween Costume
• Bigfoot Hunters Reveal Little at Press Conference
• Bigfoot Experts Skeptical of Body in Freezer
• Bigfoot Trackers Say They've Got a Body
• Older Bhutanese Remember Abominable Snowman
• 'Montauk Monster' May Have Been Kidnapped
• 'Montauk Monster' Mystery Gets More Mysterious
• 'Montauk Monster' Has Hamptons in a Tizzy
• Worms Use Calculus to Find Food
• Study: Ranchland Key to Preserving American West's Environment
• Why Some Animals Eat Their Young

PHYSICS

• Scientists Dance Own Dissertations in YouTube Sensation
• 'Doomsday Machine' Repairs to Cost $21 Million
• Portable Nuclear 'Hot Tubs' Could Power America
• Stephen Hawking Stepping Down From Academic Post
• Peeling Scotch Tape Emits X-Rays, Startling Study Finds
• Gala Inauguration for Broken-Down 'Doomsday Machine'
• Bad Connection May Have Crippled 'Doomsday Machine'
• 3 Win Nobel Prize for Subatomic Physics Discoveries
• 'Doomsday Machine' Lawsuit Tossed Out by Judge
• 'Big Bang Machine' to Be Shut Down Until Spring
• 'Big Bang Machine' Damage Forces 2-Month Halt
• 'Big Bang Machine' Breaks Down Again
• 'Big Bang Machine' Finally Ready to Smash Particles
• 'Big Bang Machine' Successfully Completes First Test
• Countdown Nears End for Start-Up of 'Big Bang Machine'

REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS

• Last Tortoise of Species Mates, Fails to Become Father
• World's Rarest Turtle Nearly Becomes Soup
• Grotesquely Deformed Amphibians Puzzle Scientists
• Tuataras Breeding Again on Mainland New Zealand
• Elderly Chinese Turtles Mate, but Don't Breed
• Poachers, Houses Crowd Out Venus Flytraps in Carolinas
• New Iguana Species Found in Fiji
• 'Extinct' Frog Found Alive and Well in Australia
• Israeli Turtle Gets Skateboard to Replace Legs
• Biologists: Deadly Pythons May Not Get Out of Florida
• Barbados Scoffs at 'Discovery' of World's Tiniest Snake
• 111-Year-Old Reptile to Be Father for First Time in Decades
• World's Smallest Snake as Thin as Spaghetti
• Last-of-Kind Giant Galapagos Tortoise May Become Father
• All-Male Future Looms for Ancient Reptiles

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