Papua New Guinea authorities are assessing the extent of damage from a powerful earthquake that rattled…
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Dragging levee repairs leave riverside communities stressed
Communities that were flooded when levees failed along the Missouri River earlier this spring will likely…
$10M XPRIZE for software that teaches illiterate to read
The challenge was to develop software that could easily be downloaded onto tablets that poor children…
Explorer recounts making the deepest ocean dive in history
Victor Vescovo says he didn’t set out to break James Cameron’s record of reaching the deepest…
Escaped pet parrots are now naturalized in 23 US states, study finds
When Stephen Pruett-Jones, Ph.D., an ecologist at the University of Chicago, first came to Chicago in…
Airline technology supplier says outage has been fixed
Travel-technology provider Sabre says the problem that prevented some airline travelers from checking in for flights…
NASA: Budget boost 'good start' to put astronauts on moon
NASA’s chief says the Trump administration’s proposed $1.6 billion budget boost is a “good start” for…
Newly identified bacteria-killing protein needs vitamin A to work
People who have inadequate vitamin A in their diets are more susceptible to skin infection, yet…
Rice blast fungus study sheds new light on virulence mechanisms of plant pathogenic fungi
Rice blast fungus (Magnaporthe oryzae) is a global food security threat due to its destruction of…
Complete removal of tumor reduces risk of recurrence of cancer in dogs
The relative risk of a recurrence of cancer is reduced by 60% in dogs whose tumors…