The ruling said the stay on an order by a federal judge last month was temporary and gave both sides until Sept. 20 to file written arguments in the case.

Stephen Hawking’s pop-science book about the origins of our universe got attention for a passage about God.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne will be the first to leave Genentech’s top scientific ranks since its acquisition by Roche in March 2009.

Everyone is exposed to BPA, but after hundreds of studies, there is no consensus about its safety.

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of a settlement that flourished more than 3,500 years ago.

There are many cases of mimicry in nature, which can be the sincerest form of flattery, the severest form of battery, or the weirdest survival strategy.

Out of a sugar, a salt and Everclear, scientists have made a new nanostructure that could be used for storing hydrogen or delivering drugs. It could also become a hot new ingredient for chefs.

Psychologists have discovered that some of the most hallowed advice on study habits is flat wrong.

Communicating a patient's story is a matter of getting right and saying it fast.

Appeals court allow human embryonic stem cell research funding to resume.


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LONDON -- John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study.


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Jumping over those popular novels about detective cats and telepathic dogs, Sara Gruen's "Ape House" considers the capacity of animals to think and communicate from a scientific perspective.


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The unprecedented turtle rescue effort at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is winding down.



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MEYRIN, Switzerland - Using a machine kept colder than space, scientists at the world's most ambitious international research facility are puzzling out the questions of the universe, working to re-create the cosmic soup served up by the Big Bang. But the famous institute is also facing a far more...


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I'd love to stay home in my pajamas rather than fight through traffic so I can sit in a cubicle all day. I need help convincing my boss that working from home is a good idea. How much greener is telecommuting than dragging my sorry bones to work?


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The Potomac River is cleaner now than it has been in decades, thanks largely to upgrades at Washington's sewage plant - and the proof is on the river bottom, where thickets of underwater grass are replacing mud and murk, according to a new scientific study.


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MADISON, Wis. -- The Dalai Lama is putting his money where his mouth is.



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The appeals court decision doesn't remove uncertainty over the future of the field. At issue is whether federal law bars the use of public funds for experiments involving human embryonic stem cells.

The National Institutes of Health may temporarily resume funding for research involving human embryonic stem cells, an appeals court ruled Thursday — though uncertainty over the future of the field remains, scientists said.

George Shultz warns of the dangers of dependence on foreign oil, and backers of Proposition 23 respond with attacks on him and his co-chairman in the opposition campaign, Thomas F. Steyer.

The fight over Proposition 23 , a November ballot initiative to suspend California's global warming law, turned ugly this week, with personal attacks and emotionally charged rhetoric on both sides.

Contrast agents containing the chemical gadolinium used in MRI scans can cause a rare and sometimes fatal syndrome in patients with kidney disease. Stronger warning labels are being added to the drugs.

Federal health regulators are warning doctors that a class of injectable drugs used in MRI medical imaging scans can cause a rare and sometimes fatal condition in patients with kidney disease.

The oil company accepts a share of the responsibility for the deadly explosion and oil spill but also takes aim at contractors Transocean and Halliburton, setting off additional finger-pointing.

An internal investigation released Wednesday by BP concluded that a series of mechanical and human failures by its own crews and its contractors led to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which killed 11 men and set in motion one of the world's worst oil spills.

An attempt to reopen a wood processing plant that closed two years ago seems to be going nowhere, with potentially dire implications for the local port and economy.

The timber industry has suffered a long decline in Eureka, an isolated community about five hours north of San Francisco.

A new blowout preventer is in place, giving experts time to analyze the gulf well, retrieve a broken pipe and perhaps apply another cement seal for added insurance, Thad Allen says.

The ultimate sealing of BP's gulf oil well may not get underway until late this month or early October because experts want more time to analyze the well, fish out a broken pipe and possibly apply another cement seal on the top for "more insurance" against unlikely troubles, a top federal official said.

State regulators unanimously approve the 250-megawatt project, to be set up in San Bernardino County. The go-ahead brings the state closer to approving 4,300 megawatts of solar power by the end of 2010.

State regulators on Wednesday unanimously cleared the Abengoa Mojave Solar Project for construction, pushing California closer to approving 4,300 megawatts of solar power by the end of the year.

Oxygen levels have dropped drastically in waters near the blown-out BP well, but not enough to lay waste to all marine life there, biologists' findings suggest.

Oxygen levels fell significantly in deep-sea areas of the Gulf of Mexico contaminated by the BP oil spill, researchers said Tuesday, but not enough to create biological "dead zones" that cannot harbor marine life.

Scientists are on the trail of the little-understood meat-eaters like the California cobra lily and Venus' flytrap, in decline amid rampant poaching and other human encroachment.

"This is the easy part," says Barry Rice, half-sliding, half-falling down a ravine through a latticework of dead branches.

Fake Patty Sheehan Facebook account angers real Orlando commissioner

Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan knew something was wrong when people started congratulating her for finally joining Facebook.

Rev. Terry Jones announced at a press conference outside the Dove World Outreach Center that he would cancel the Quran burning

The Gainesville pastor behind the Quran burning scheduled for Saturday announced Thursday afternoon that he plans to cancel the event.

Family of Barbara Arteta, 63, say she was traveling overnight on the Amtrak Auto Train with her husband when she went missing

A New Smyrna Beach woman on an Amtrak train disappeared early this morning, her husband said.

Money is part of $208 million flowing into Florida, the most of any state

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is spending more than $208 million to bolster foreclosure-plagued neighborhoods in Florida — well over the amount allotted to any other state.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge in Southern California has declared the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional.

The suspects attend University High School, Sgt. Kim Montes said.

Authorities say four students in Winter Park learned a valuable lesson Thursday: Committing a crime in front of a state trooper is a bad idea.

J onathan Lucas Levine should be celebrating his 21st birthday this month. Probably he would be in college by now, studying to be a math professor or perhaps a psychologist. Surely he would have plenty of friends. The way other kids used to follow him around, his mom dubbed him the Pied Piper.

As flames continued to rage out of control in San Bruno, fire crews from outlying cities and agencies were responding to help fight the massive blaze that has left at least nine people burned and destroyed a number of homes.

It's here, the peak of storm season, the day hurricanes are most likely to be swirling in the Atlantic.