Study shows messiness leads to behavior decline
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Does a messy neighborhood make a difference on how people act? It sure does! Graffiti on the walls, trash in the street, bicycles chained to a fence, all resulted in a decline in how people behaved in a series of experiments....
Happy Birthday: Space station celebrates 10 years
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA couldn't have staged it any better: 10 people in orbit for Thursday's 10th anniversary of the world's most elaborate and expensive housing project, the international space station....
Winter forecast looks mixed across nation
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Winter looks likely to be mild in the Midwest and dry in the Southeast, the government said Thursday. Warmer-than-average temperatures are expected for the nation's center, especially Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....
Herod may have been buried among lavish artwork
HERODIUM, West Bank (AP) -- King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday. The scientists found such paintings and signs of a regal two-story mausoleum, bolstering their conviction that the ancient Jewish monarch was buried there....
Invasive mussel confirmed in Utah's Electric Lake
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Trouble-making zebra mussels have arrived in Utah. But not where they were expected to show up....
Mammoth task: Scientists map DNA of ancient beast
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bringing "Jurassic Park" one step closer to reality, scientists have deciphered much of the genetic code of the woolly mammoth, a feat they say could allow them to recreate the shaggy, prehistoric beast in as little as a decade or two....
Scientists find new penguin, extinct for 500 years
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Researchers studying a rare and endangered species of penguin have uncovered a previously unknown species that disappeared about 500 years ago....
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