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Cape Canaveral, Fla.— Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a spectacular, middle-of-the-night blastoff.
Kansas City, Mo.— A group of California grade school students wants Crayola to start a recycling program for spent plastic markers, but the company doesn't appear ready to make such a move.
Cape Canaveral, Fla.— Private rocket maker SpaceX is shooting for a Tuesday liftoff after fixing the engine problem that led to a launch abort over the weekend.
The annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its edges, was visible to wide areas across Asia early Monday. It then moved across the Pacific and was also seen in parts of the western United States Sunday afternoon.
The Michigan Senate is preparing to vote on whether to abolish a state program that regulates what Great Lakes landowners can do with the vegetation.
Washington — And the heat goes on. Forecasters predict toasty temperatures will stretch through the summer in the U.S. And that's a bad sign for wildfires in the West.
Los Angeles— Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.
New York — Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.
About 1,600 Macomb County fourth- and fifth-grade students gathered Tuesday at Macomb Community College to explore concepts of water conservation, preservation and safety at the fifth annual Lake St. Clair Water Festival.
Lubbock, Texas— No one's talking about giving intelligence tests, but researchers say they've shown that plants have smarts — the sort needed to help them survive dry times.
Macomb Community College offers a 16-credit certificate program designed to be combined with one of six associate degree programs to specialize in biomass, geothermal, solar and wind energy, as well as green building and sustainable energy technology.
New York— Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society's intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago.
New Delhi— India's Supreme Court has banned the Exxon Valdez from entering India, saying the ship involved in one of the worst U.S. oil spills will not be allowed in for dismantling until it has been decontaminated.
New York— The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrives Saturday night as our celestial neighbor passes closer to Earth than usual.
New York— Look! Up in the sky! It's a ... space shuttle?
Reno, Nev.— Robert Ward has been hunting and collecting meteorites for more than 20 years, so he knew he'd found something special in the Sierra ...
Los Angeles— A researcher has spotted lava flows shaped like coils of rope near the equator of Mars, the first time such geologic features have been ...
Another human embryonic stem cell line created by the University of Michigan has been placed on the U.S. National Institutes of Health registry, officials ...
Washington — Space-faring robots could be extracting gold and platinum from asteroids within 10 years if a new venture backed by two Silicon Valley ...
Today, Sunday April 22, is Earth Day. Between that and the fact that I really need to get on with reducing, reusing and recycling, I've found some technical ...
Barataria Bay, La. — Open sores. Parasitic infections. Chewed-up-looking fins. Gashes. Mysterious black streaks. Two years after the drilling-rig explosion ...
Michigan City, Ind.— A barrier aimed at preventing invasive sea lampreys from reaching spawning grounds is being dedicated in Michigan City.
Chantilly, Va.— Space shuttle Discovery is preparing to move into its new home at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum annex in northern ...
Washington — The Obama administration is issuing the first-ever standards to control air pollution from gas wells that are drilled using a method called ...
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