ROME (AP) — A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's flagship public university gave the official heave-ho to tobacco on Thursday, touting the health benefits of a smoke-free policy covering all of its...

BEIJING (AP) — Sometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly...

DEVENS, Mass. (AP) — American Superconductor Corp. reaffirmed its full-year outlook Thursday and said it expects its profit to double next fiscal year.

The earnings forecast for...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Are cramped chickens crazy chickens?

Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two instruments that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from failure in 1993 were recently returned to Earth and are going on display at the Smithsonian's...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — First Lady Michelle Obama received a few gardening tips from students Wednesday as she toured a Virginia elementary school's...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time. Despite a global economic slump, worldwide carbon dioxide pollution jumped 2 percent last...

PARIS (AP) — A French nuclear physicist discussed possible terrorist attacks targeting France's army in e-mail exchanges with North Africa's al-Qaida branch before his arrest last month,...

The Sept. 19, 2008, failure of the Large Hadron Collider is costing 40 million Swiss francs ($40 million) to fix and it set back experiments for more than a year. But the world's largest...

GENEVA (AP) — Scientists have repaired the world's largest atom smasher and plan by this weekend to restart the machine that was launched with great fanfare last year before its...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet — climate change, renewable...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The state Agriculture Department has converted 11 vehicles to propane and will conduct a three-year study to compare them to other department vehicles that use...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Tristesse Jones will probably never drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time.

There isn't a farm within miles of...

COPENHAGEN (AP) — There's not enough time to strike a detailed and binding deal at next month's Copenhagen conference on climate change but nations say it...

KOKONOGI, Japan (AP) — A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Agriculture officials will be surveying farmers to determine if expected yields met expectations this year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National...

KOKONOGI, Japan (AP) — A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn't intend to let the federal government's expanded protection for bears...

BEIJING (AP) — Plans to raise the water level behind China's massive Three Gorges dam to full capacity this month — which would mark the symbolic culmination of...

KAILUA, Hawaii (AP) — Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The lunar dud for space enthusiasts has become a watershed event for NASA.

Spacecraft that crashed into the moon last month kicked up a relatively small...

Obama seeks equal partnership in Asia; welcomes China's growing economic muscle

TOKYO (AP) — President Barack Obama pressed on with his mission to repair America's global standing,...