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Sema Ergezen teaches biology to Turkish students interested in teaching science themselves, and she has long struggled with her students' ignorance of, and sometimes hostility to, the notion of evolution.
Cavern could collapse, taking part of N.M. city Carlsbad is famous for caverns, but this one was made by oil industry This brine well collapsed near Artesia, N.M., in July 2008 and has similar characteristics to a well that...
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has bulletproof green credentials—his first act as P.M. was to sign the Kyoto Protocol, forcing his country to slash carbon emissions. In December he'll play a key role in negotiating...
Citations, warnings for windshield obstructions up 91% since 2004 Ermir Spahiu was pulled over by police for his window-mounted GPS unit. For Tina Ross, it was her handicapped placard. And Mark Hubbard was nailed for an air...
BALTIMORE -- The accusations that Mayor Sheila Dixon used holiday gift cards for the needy during personal shopping sprees may sound like a minor embarrassment at worst, a small-time case of a politician enjoying the perks of...
HUAMPAMI, Peru — In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class. His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment. Classmates in Lima, a two-day trip from his...
In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, Donald Schenk stands on the back porch of his home in Schaumburg, Ill., Schenk has been out of work for over a year. It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless...
Published: Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 10:34 a.m. MST TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Geologists plan to drill a pair of mile-deep holes in southern Idaho in a hunt for geothermal fields that could be tapped to produce energy. The $4.6...
My dad used to say technology is advancing so quickly that, by the time a product reaches market, it is already obsolete. (Credit: Elizabeth Armstrong Moore/CNET) The Human Genome Project, which officially completed the...
The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak -- made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway -- is rapidly melting, researchers report. About 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers...
