From The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet — the kind of breakthrough that emerges...

From The Associated Press WASHINGTON - When swine flu broke out, the government revved up a massive information campaign centered on three words: Wash your hands. The Obama administration now wants...

From The Associated Press   AUSTIN, Texas – Texas gave birth to the modern oil industry, invented the handheld calculator and sent man to the moon. But can the Lone Star State cure cancer? Texas...

From The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now...

From The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Two conservation groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for its decision to register pesticides that curtail prairie dogs. Defenders of Wildlife...

From Reuters   HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese researchers have unearthed the fossil of a bird-like dinosaur with four wings in northeastern China, which they suggest is a missing link in dinosaurs'...

From The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Don Ho was right. It is the tiny bubbles. A team of researchers — in Europe not surprisingly — found that Champagne's bursting bubbles not only tickle the...

From The Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Preservationists and opposition politicians on Wednesday decried St. Petersburg's decision to allow Gazprom, the state natural gas giant, to build...

From The Associated Press NEW YORK - Wireless carriers shouldn't be allowed to block certain types of Internet traffic flowing over their networks, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission...

From The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - With their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the spring and summer debating whether to cut off free online access to some...

From The Associated Press WASHINGTON – About 125 million years ago a tiny version of Tyrannosaurus rex roamed what is now northeastern China. Tiny, that is, by T. rex standards — you still wouldn't...

From The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The world's in hot water. Sea-surface temperatures worldwide have been the hottest on record over the last three months, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

From The Associated Press   WASHINGTON – Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand — if only it weren't so broiling hot. As scientists...

From The Associated Press   TROUTVILLE, Va. – An animal rights group wants to rent a prison building the state plans to close and turn it into the nation's first chicken empathy museum. A People...

From The Associated Press   WASHINGTON – In what may be the scariest shower news since Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," a study says showerheads can harbor tiny bacteria that come spraying into your...