The family and friends of parachutist Debbie Laws committed her ashes to the sky she loved so much during two skydiving jumps Saturday afternoon. ...more

January 3, 2009 |

Taking a big hop forward in marsupial research, scientists say they have unraveled the DNA of a small kangaroo named Matilda. ...more

November 19, 2008 |

The Energy Department will tell Congress in the coming weeks it should begin looking for a second permanent site to bury nuclear waste, or approve a large expansion of the proposed waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. ...more

November 7, 2008 |

Geologists say they have discovered prehistoric animal tracks so densely packed on a 3/4 -acre site that they're calling it a "dinosaur dance floor." ...more

October 22, 2008 |

Thomas Sandusky didn't have it easy teaching high schoolers in New Jersey. ...more

October 6, 2008 |

THE ORIGIN OF DISHES The Columbian Exchange, sparked by Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage to America, widened the experience of people in the Old and New Worlds, both for good and ill. One of the benefits was the introduction of new foods to many societies. ...more

September 28, 2008 |

As an errant pass began to slide out of Vinny Lecavalier's reach during a recent practice, the Lightning's franchise center laid out his body at the blue line in an attempt to corral the puck with his stick. ...more

September 19, 2008 |

It was pretty much back and forth in a tight game between Plant City and Durant, until, that is, Durant took over on its 6-yard line with just more than a minute to go in the third quarter. ...more

September 6, 2008 |

Astronomers took pictures of a far-off lumpy galaxy just forming 13 billion years ago, putting it among the earliest and most distant cosmic objects ever photographed. ...more

February 13, 2008 |

Whether to teach science of evolution or the conjecture of creationism in schools seems to be uppermost in the minds of our school administrators. Both theories have their good points and bad points. Both require some bit of imagination and faith. The findings of fact and development of theories have brought science and religion to very conflicting points of view. ...more

February 7, 2008 |