AP
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday, closing out the next-to-last mission in NASA's 30-year program with a safe middle-of-the-night landing. Full Story »
MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - A Southern California high school is taking the scalpel to frog dissections in biology class as it becomes the first U.S. school to take up animal welfare supporters' offer of free anatomy software. Full Story »
The second of a pair of fallen statues of King Tut's grandfather has been revealed at the tomb where he was buried, Egypt's antiquities minister announced today (May 31). Full Story »
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Wednesday it will recall 105,784 early model Prius cars in Japan and overseas to fix a fault with the model's steering and gearbox. Full Story »
ALBANY, N.Y. - The federal government should conduct a full environmental review that weighs potential damage to the welfare of people in the Delaware River watershed and the drinking water quality for millions of New Yorkers before allowing natural gas drilling in the region, the state's attorney general said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. Full Story »
AFP CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) - The space shuttle Endeavour glided home for its final landing early Wednesday and the conclusion of the next to last mission of the 30-year-old US shuttle program. Full Story »
A promising method for creating therapeutic stem cells without destroying human embryos has encountered a major setback, as reported this month in the journal Nature. Full Story »
DAYTON, Ohio - An animal rights group says advertising firms have rejected efforts to put up a billboard that would have used images of a mother pig and piglet to play on an Ohio case of a woman convicted of cooking her baby in a microwave oven. Full Story »
LOS ANGELES - Three California condors found in northern Arizona and southern Utah have died of lead poisoning and three others had toxic levels of lead in their bodies, prompting conservationists to urge hunters to use non-lead ammunition and to carefully dispose animal carcasses that condors could feast upon. Full Story »
A low pressure system that brought late season snowfall to the Northern and Central Rockies will take a more northeastward turn Tuesday, moving into central Canada. Full Story »
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the dark, early morning hours, NASA's space shuttle Endeavour landed for the final time today (June 1), ending its last space mission and returning to Earth for good. Full Story »
PARIS (Reuters) - France looked set on Thursday to maintain its curbs on human embryonic stem cell research after the conservative government fought off a parliamentary bid to liberalize the country's bioethics law. Full Story »
DENVER - A criminal trial in the deaths of five workers at a Colorado hydroelectric plant began Tuesday in the rare prosecution of a company. Full Story »
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan underestimated the risk of tsunamis and needs to closely monitor public and workers' health after the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a team of international safety inspectors said in a preliminary review of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Full Story »
A respected international panel of scientists says cellphones are possible cancer-causing agents, putting them in the same category as the pesticide DDT, gasoline engine exhaust and coffee. Full Story »
Wall Street bulls took the upper hand with a 1 percent rally on Tuesday as hopes for a new plan to deal with Greece's debt crisis relieved some investor worry, but grim economic data suggested more hurdles ahead as the S&P; 500 closed out its worst month since August. Full Story »
If he had a another chance, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt would have pressed the Internet search leader to focus more on mounting a challenge to Facebook while he was still running the company. Full Story »
Add headlines to your personalized My Yahoo! page (About My Yahoo! and RSS)
