AP - A federal lawsuit aimed at protecting threatened Canada lynx has ended in a settlement in which state game officials agreed to restrict trapping in northern Maine.

SPACE.com - Astronomers have spotted and weighed a tiny galaxy located six billion light-years away, or nearly halfway across the universe.

AP - The formation of canyons, done with the flow of water over rock and time, is generally a practice in patience. But not here.

(AP) -- Japan's Agriculture Ministry reprimanded six bureaucrats after an internal probe found they spent work hours contributing to Wikipedia on topics unrelated to farm issues - including 260 entries about cartoon robots.

AP - When runaway algae killed fish and fouled beaches in the Great Lakes region decades ago, governments ordered cutbacks of phosphorus — a key algae nutrient — from laundry detergents and sewage treatment plants.

Medical malpractice award caps in Texas have swollen the ranks of medical specialists and license applications at the state medical board, official said.

Exploding stars that light the way for research on dark energy aren`t as powerful or bright, on average, as they once were, says a new study by University of Toronto astronomers.

University of California, Irvine scientists have discovered how to reverse the learning and memory problems inherent in the most common form of mental impairment.

Samples from a borehole in the San Andreas Fault help decode earthquake physics.

A new technique developed by Oxford University zoologists enables researchers to ‘hitch a ride` with wild birds and witness their natural and undisturbed behaviour.

M87, the central galaxy of the Virgo cluster in a distance of only 50 million light years, was observed by Yuri Kovalev from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronony (MPIfR) in Bonn and his colleagues with the VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array) at 2 cm wavelength. The resulting image provides details down to a resolution of one milli-arcsecond, corresponding to a linear resolution of only three...

A team of astronomers at the University of California at Santa Barbara report that they have resolved a dwarf galaxy 6 billion light-years away. Weighing only 1/100 as much as our Milky Way Galaxy, the dwarf is much smaller than anything studied before in any detail at this distance.

Like a lot of guys his age, Brian Tanner used to be glued to a computer while he was junior-high student in Winnipeg. He especially liked to tinker around with some software that allowed him to manipulate little stick figures and create crude animations.

AFP - Floods in central Vietnam unleashed by Typhoon Lekima have killed at least 17 people, state television and officials reported late Friday as rescuers struggled to reach communities submerged by the heavy...

Just days after the investigative arm of Congress accused FCC staff members of favoring key lobbyists by disclosing nonpublic information, Google has launched its own charges of impropriety concerning talks between FCC Chair Kevin Martin and lobbyists representing Verizon Wireless. The contents of these conversations were neither disclosed in a timely fashion, as required by the FCC's own rules...

Protein architectures -- the three-dimensional structures of specific regions within proteins -- provide an extraordinary window on the history of life. Scientists compiled a global census of protein architectures, and used these relics to plot the emergence, diversification and refinement of each of the three super-kingdoms of life: archaea, bacteria and eukarya.

A new technique can help scientists and clinicians quickly and cheaply diagnose the bacteria which causes the most common bout of food poisoning. Genetic markers pinpoint the bacteria.

Tiny video cameras mounted on crow tail feathers reveal the birds' ingenuity.

Researchers have found that heart disease of the left main coronary artery is often an inherited condition that clusters in families. Moreover, they discovered that initially healthy siblings of a person with the condition were 2.5 times more likely to go on to develop some form of heart disease than were siblings of a patient with heart disease that did not relate to the left main coronary...

We've all been taught that our bodies, the Earth and in fact all matter in the universe is composed of tiny building blocks called atoms. Now imagine if this weren't the case. This mind-bending concept is at the core of the scientific research that astronomers and physicists are now pursuing.

The long-running civil war in Sri Lanka is causing more mental health problems and social breakdown than the catastrophic 2004 tsunami, according to new research. The terrorisation of many Tamil communities and the destruction caused by the tsunami meant many villages were abandoned and the villagers separated.

Scientists are studying a model organism called "Dictyostelium discoideum" to better understand mechanisms of cisplatin drug sensitivity. They hope to learn why some tumors eventually build a tolerance to the common chemotherapy drug cisplatin and to identify the particular genes that can be manipulated to make treatment as effective as possible.

What do you get when Yahoo, eBay, and PayPal join forces against malware? A collaborative effort to help protect consumers against fraudulent e-mails and dangerous scams commonly called phishing attacks. A movement got underway on Thursday that gives eBay and PayPal customers who use Yahoo Mail an upper hand against fraudsters by blocking fake e-mails that claim to be coming from these popular...

Researchers in Sweden have found a gene in flycatcher bird populations that causes females to prefer to mate with their father's species.