Topic: The Associated Press
Naming your kid after you is one thing. This week, Purdue University is auctioning off the rights to name seven newly discovered bats and two turtles, the Associated Press is reporting. This will last as long as we have our society," John ...
Panama first lady raising money to deliver medical supplies to homeland's indigenous peopleThe first lady of Panama said Wednesday she wants to decrease the infant mortality rate in her country by creating help centers in the remote areas where the hard-to-reach and ...
Taming the Baywatch effect A new study finds that breasts move up and down as much as eight inches during exercise-far more than ordinary bras are equipped to handle. Appreciation: Alex the parrot Alex, the academic African gray parrot who learned to ...
AP News in BriefStocks plungs, Dow has record drop, then recovers on concerns about Greek debt problemsNEW YORK (AP) — The stock market had one of its most turbulent days in history as the Dow Jones industrials dropped almost 1,000 points in ...
AP answers your questions on the news, from unemployment levels in the Depression to El NinoCuriosity about the number of people unemployed during the Great Depression inspired one of the questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A column where ...
A trustworthy memory and the ability to concentrate are essential in everyday tasks, work situations and driving. The mice were put through a swimming task which tested their ability to remember the position of a platform. The scientists also studied the brain ...
It came too late for Jesse James. According to the Associated Press, the German scientists managed to successfully hide from greedy eyes a tiny bump in a layer of gold. And "in principle, the cloak design is completely scalable," Tolga Ergin, the ...
Incidents of serious child abuse in the United States decreased by 26 percent between 1993 and 2006, and other forms of physical abuse dropped by 15 percent, a federal government study says.. Experts say the findings are proof that public awareness campaigns ...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: It's the first time a consumer product has been recalled in the United States because of cadmium, the Associated Press reported.. In a statement issued ...
But researchers are getting closer to a system that would allow ancient fossils to be identified using a unique DNA-like reading, according to an Associated Press report today. The system would allow paleontologists to test for the prevalence of rare earth elements ...
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