LEROY, NY — Administrators in the Leroy Central School District updated parents and students about a mysterious disorder that’s affected twelve female high school students, causing them to exhibit symptoms similar to Tourette’s Syndrome....
The days of medical masks at airports and widespread panic may be coming back—that’s because at least 12 humans are believed to have been infected with a new strain of swine flu that’s not...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is sifting through the photos and commentary on its blossoming social network so its Internet search results can include more personal information. The additional personal touches coming out Tuesday...
ANTARCTICA has yielded its first sauropod fossil. The long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs are already known to have plodded across the six other continents. The 70 to 80-million-year-old fossil is too incomplete to be given an...
(multimedia) A group of killer whales have been spotted much further south along the California coast than ever before. Lee Cowan reports on what maybe causing the rare sightings.
They look like ordinary baby rhesus macaques, but Hex, Roku and Chimero are the world’s first chimeric monkeys, each with cells from the genomes of as many as six rhesus monkeys. Until now research...
Snowpack across the western United States right now is paltry when compared to this time last year. Below is an image showing the expansive and deep snow cover (white, blue, purple shadings) across the...
PASADENA, Calif. – A new NASA and University of Washington study allays concerns that melting Arctic sea ice could be increasing the amount of freshwater in the Arctic enough to have an impact on...
One of the nation’s most widely planted crops — a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide — may be losing its effectiveness because a major pest appears to be developing resistance...
Volcanic activity is causing the earth to rise in Oregon, scientists have found. Though whether such uplift is a sign of an imminent eruption remains uncertain. As early as the summer of 1996, a...
