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    • SCIENCE
    • 6:25 PM, Jun. 19, 2013

    Crew removes Lake Michigan beam that may be from Griffin shipwreck

    A wooden beam that has long been the focus of the search for a 17th century shipwreck in northern Lake Michigan was not attached to a buried vessel as searchers had suspected, but still may have come from the elusive Griffin or some other ship, archaeologists said Wednesday.

    • 8:32 AM, Jun. 18, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Meteorologists meet to mull weird British weather

    London — Come rain, wind or sunshine, weather has long been one of Britain's main topics of conversation. Now it has also become a mystery.

    • 7:27 AM, Jun. 18, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Airborne laser reveals hidden city in Cambodia

    Sydney — Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temple complex.

    • 10:05 PM, Jun. 16, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Fracking fuels water fights in nation's dry spots

    San Francisco — The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface.

    • 10:10 PM, Jun. 16, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    MSU planting poplars to generate biomass for power

    East Lansing — Michigan State University has planted the first of six plots of poplar trees as part of an initiative to generate power from renewable sources.

    • 8:25 AM, Jun. 10, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    IEA: World's energy emissions rose to record high in 2012

    Stockholm — The world's energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.4 percent in 2012 to a record high of 31.6 billion tons, even though the U.S. posted its lowest emissions since the mid-1990s, the International Energy Agency said Monday.

    • 11:08 PM, Jun. 9, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Some choosing natural burial to help environment

    No statistics are available on natural burials, but 'there's definitely a move afoot,' said Joe Sehee, founder of the Green Burial Council.

    • 11:15 PM, Jun. 9, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Ohio park system uses wind power to stop algae growth

    Columbus, Ohio -- Toxic blue-green algae killing fish in a central Ohio park system's 10-acre pond can hopefully be held in check with the help of wind power, parks officials said.

    • Jun. 5, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Panel: U.S. should let nature cull wild horse herds

    Reno, Nev. — A scathing independent scientific review of wild horse roundups in the West concludes the U.S. government should likely instead let nature cull the herds.

  1. 1.5 million walleye stocked off Keweenaw Peninsula

    Chassell — The waters around northern Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula have 1.5 million more walleye than they did a few days ago.

  2. Deadly Oklahoma tornado widest on record, rare EF5

    Norman, Okla. — The deadly tornado that struck near Oklahoma City late last week had a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles and was the second top-of-the-scale EF5 twister to hit the area in less than two weeks, the National Weather Service reported Tuesday.

    • Jun. 3, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Feds take fight to Michigan lamprey

    East Bay Township, Mich. — Federal wildlife workers will go after one of the Great Lakes' greatest invasive pests this week when they poison the larvae of sea lamprey in a stream feeding Lake Michigan.

    • Jun. 3, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Changing environment, diet puts puffins at risk

    In the Gulf of Maine, the comical-looking seabirds have been dying of starvation and losing body weight, possibly because of shifting fish populations as ocean temperatures rise, according to scientists.

    • May. 31, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Russians find mammoth carcass with liquid blood

    Moscow — A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood has been found on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal, Russian scientists said Thursday.

    • May. 31, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Big asteroid swinging by Earth today has its own moon

    Washington — Astronomers getting their first close-up glimpse of a giant asteroid about to whiz by Earth found a surprise bonus rock. A smaller moon ...

    • May. 31, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Study: Gambling apes get angry when they lose

    Los Angeles — Ever let out a groan, bang your fist or scratch your head in frustration when life didn't go your way? Maybe you were forced to wait in ...

    • May. 30, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Astronauts face radiation threat on long Mars trip

    Los Angeles — Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much cosmic radiation as they'd get from a full-body CT scan about once a ...

    • May. 29, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Frozen zombie plants from Little Ice Age revived after 400 years

    Los Angeles — Given the short half-life of DNA, we may never have a Jurassic Park — but could we one day boast of an Ice Age Garden?

    • May. 29, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Soyuz capsule docks with space station

    Moscow — A Soyuz capsule carrying an American, Russian and Italian successfully docked Wednesday with the International Space Station, where the new crew ...

    • May. 28, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    QE2 asteroid to fly by Earth at a safe distance

    Cape Canaveral, Fla. — An asteroid more than 11/2 miles long will zoom past Earth this week from a far-off distance.

    • May. 24, 2013
    • NATION-WORLD

    Hurricane center: Beware of the storm surge

    Miami — During a hurricane, storm surge is one of the greatest threats to life and land, yet many people don't understand the dire warnings from ...

    • May. 24, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Nonprofit: Michigan understated risks of pet coke piles on Detroit River

    Detroit — New testing on samples of the petroleum coke piling up along the Detroit River show results similar to those produced by state officials.

    • May. 23, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Hurricane forecast: Another busy Atlantic season

    College Park, Md. — Get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe unusually wild, federal forecasters say.

    • May. 23, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Study: Amphibians disappearing at alarming rate

    Grants Pass, Ore. — A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, ...

    • May. 23, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Slow pokes: Acupuncture helps hypothermic turtles

    Quincy, Mass. — Two endangered sea turtles that are shells of their former selves after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a cold spell are getting some help ...

  3. Concerns about pet coke piled along Detroit River remain

    Detroit — New testing on samples of the petroleum coke piling up along the Detroit River show results similar to those produced by state officials.

    • May. 17, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31

    Los Angeles — It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted ...

    • May. 17, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Winds on Neptune, Uranus may shed light on exoplanet atmospheres

    Los Angeles — Inscrutable ice giants Neptune and Uranus have only a thin rind of windy weather over their fluid contents, a team of planetary scientists ...

    • May. 16, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    NASA: New pump resolves big space station leak

    Cape Canaveral, Fla. — NASA says an impromptu spacewalk seems to have fixed a big ammonia leak at the International Space Station.

    • May. 15, 2013
    • SCIENCE

    Scientists recover stem cells from cloned human embryos

    New York — Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such ...

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