AP - Residents in the southern Plains still reeling from a deadly tornado outbreak that forecasters had warned about for days were bracing for even more...

AFP - The appearance of a grey whale off the coast of Israel has stunned scientists, in what was thought to be the first time the giant mammal has been seen outside the Pacific in several hundred...

AP - In the weeks after an oil rig exploded and killed 11 men in the Gulf of Mexico, worried environmental groups scoured the water for oil plumes, set up animal triage centers and stretched boom across...

AP - The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig illustrates the energy industry's push to drill ever deeper in search of huge oil deposits, despite the mammoth risks and unique challenges associated with exploration in such a hostile...

AFP - Want to find out what diseases await you in the future, your chances of developing Alzheimer's? Or whether you will pass something on to your child? Then a trip to the pharmacy may reveal...

AFP - After a nearly year-long delay, the US Senate takes up legislation Wednesday on the first-ever nationwide system to battle climate change. But the political battle may only be...

HealthDay - TUESDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have pinpointed two genes that are linked to Alzheimer's disease and could become targets for new treatments for the neurodegenerative condition.

AP - Oklahoma officials revised the state's storms death toll from five to two Tuesday after learning three critically injured children had survived.

File/Peter Parks)" border="0" />AFP - North Korea announced Wednesday it has successfully carried out a nuclear fusion reaction in what it called a breakthrough towards developing new energy...

LiveScience.com - Shrimp-like critters the size of fleas could be the champion jumpers of the animal kingdom, scientists now reveal.

Reuters - Executives from BP Plc and other companies involved in a deadly Gulf of Mexico offshore oil well blowout blamed each other in Washington on Tuesday as troops and prison inmates rushed to shore up Louisiana's coast against a huge oil...

AP - Federal wildlife officials are treating the deaths of six dolphins on the Gulf Coast as oil-related even though other factors may be to...

AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says there's cause for hope that the Gulf oil spill is slowing down, but she might be basing that on bad information.

AFP/NASA - Oil industry executives traded blame Tuesday for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as US lawmakers grilled them over the giant slick threatening environmental and economic...

AP - Congress called BP and its drilling partners to account Tuesday for a "cascade of failures" behind the spreading Gulf oil spill, zeroing in on a crucial chain of events at the deep-sea wellhead just before an explosion consumed the rig and set off the catastrophic...

AP - Archeologists said Tuesday they have uncovered a 14th-century aqueduct that supplied water to Jerusalem for almost 600 years along a route dating back to the time of Jesus — but unlike most such finds, this time the experts knew exactly where to...

Reuters - Executives from BP Plc and other companies involved in a deadly Gulf of Mexico offshore oil well blowout blamed each other in Washington on Tuesday as troops and prison inmates rushed to shore up Louisiana's coast against a huge oil...

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Investigators Tuesday honed in on whether an uncommon sequence of events, including a decision to remove heavy drilling lubricants early from a pipeline, may have triggered the sudden surge of natural gas that led to the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig.

AFP - Brazilian paleontologists announced Tuesday they discovered the well-preserved and near-complete fossils of a pre-dinosaur predator that lived some 238 million years...

The Newsroom - When experts began to convey the scale of the oil spill gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, they'd say that it was the size of Rhode Isalnd—and then, regrettably, would seize on other states as the spill continued growing.

LiveScience.com - You may know wisdom when you see it, but scientists have yet to come of with a concise definition.

SPACE.com - A giant reservoir of intergalactic gas was detected lying along a wall-shaped structure of galaxies about 400 million light-years away from Earth, providing the strongest evidence yet that the "missing matter" in the nearby universe is located in an enormous web of hot, diffuse gas.

The Christian Science Monitor - Top executives from BP America, Halliburton, and Transocean offered their first public assessment Tuesday into what might have caused the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, deflecting blame from their own firms even as estimates of legal liability for the fiasco soar into the billions of dollars.

AFP - US and European researchers have identified two new genes that may play a role in the development of Alzheimer's disease and could help unravel new treatments, a study published Tuesday...