New map pinpoints Lyme disease risk areas 03.02.2012, 18:22:55 CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.... |
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Unlike Patriots, NFL slow to embrace 'Moneyball' 03.02.2012, 18:20:51 WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's advice that sounds like heresy on the gridiron: Go for it on fourth down. Try more onside kicks. Running backs don't matter much.... |
NASA says Russian space woes no worry 02.02.2012, 23:36:35 WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program.... |
Sandia Labs engineers create 'self-guided' bullet 02.02.2012, 14:41:08 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Figuring out how to pack a processor and other electronics into a machine gun bullet has been a challenge for engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, so weapons experts say the miniature guidance system the lab has developed is a breakthrough.... |
EU probes new Google privacy policy 03.02.2012, 16:53:18 BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union's data protection authorities have asked Google to delay the rollout of its new privacy policy until they have verified that it doesn't break the bloc's data protection laws.... |
Where's the snow? Not in Lower 48, but elsewhere 02.02.2012, 02:19:50 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL.... |
Scientists puzzled by region outside solar system 01.02.2012, 02:24:47 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A glimpse beyond our solar system reveals the neighborhood just outside the sun's influence is different and stranger than expected, scientists reported Tuesday.... |
Board rejects mercy for condemned Ohio arsonist 01.02.2012, 18:51:55 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A death row inmate's theory that a mysterious "man in red" could have started the arson fire that killed his 3-year-old son is "an extraordinary stretch of the imagination," the state parole board ruled Wednesday in unanimously rejecting his plea for mercy.... |