Mercury putting on rare show Monday, parading across the sun
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Mercury is putting on a rare celestial show next week, parading across the sun in view of most of the world.
France reopens contested Jewish tomb in east Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — French authorities reopened one of Jerusalem's most magnificent ancient tombs to the public for the first time in over a decade, despite a...
Millions at stake in dinosaur fight: Are fossils minerals?
HELENA, Mont. — The discovery of two fossilized dinosaur skeletons intertwined in what looks like a final death match could make a Montana ranching co...
Pacific bird refuge struggles as ocean garbage patch grows
MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pac...
High-tech chestnuts: US to consider genetically altered tree
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Chestnuts harvested from high branches on a chilly fall morning look typical: they're marble sized, russet colored and nestled in pri...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s wildfire tweets not grounded in facts
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is scorching the facts about California's wildfires.
EU hopes US will rethink choice to pull out of climate pact
BRUSSELS — The European Union has voiced regret at the U.S. government's decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement and expressed hopes that ...
Wine cellar in space: 12 bottles arrive for year of aging
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A dozen bottles of fine French wine arrived at the space station Monday, not for the astronauts, but for science.
Study: Alien grasses are making more frequent US wildfires
WASHINGTON — For much of the United States, invasive grass species are making wildfires more frequent, especially in fire-prone California, a new stud...
Trump administration eases Obama-era rules on coal pollution
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration accelerated the pace of its environmental rollbacks for the country's coal-fired power plants Monday, proposing ...
Boeing crew capsule completes major flight test in desert
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing's capsule for astronauts underwent its first major flight test Monday, shooting a mile into the air then parachuting bac...
Investigation: Lead in some Canadian water worse than Flint
MONTREAL — Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have been unwittingly exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water, with contamination in seve...
Time ticks away at wild bison genetic diversity
SANTA FE, N.M. — Evidence is mounting that wild North American bison are gradually shedding their genetic diversity across many of the isolated herds ...
Space shipment launched with sports car parts, cookie oven
Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket lift off the launch pad at NASA Wallops Flight facility in Wallops Island, Va., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. The rocket i...
Crews make progress on large Southern California wildfire
LOS ANGELES — Authorities lifted evacuation orders for a farm community Saturday as firefighters make progress on a large wildfire in Southern Califor...
Greta Thunberg call to fight global warming cheers LA rally
LOS ANGELES — Greta Thunberg, Sweden's 16-year-old climate-change activist, joined fellow teenagers from throughout California Friday in telling a che...
3-2-1-Cookoff! Astronauts to bake cookies with new test oven
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Forget reheated, freeze-dried space grub. Astronauts are about to get a new test oven for baking chocolate chip cookies from sc...
Measles saps kids’ ability to fight other germs
WASHINGTON — Measles has a stealth side effect: New research shows it erases much of the immune system's memory of how to fight other germs, so childr...
Spain offers Madrid as host of December UN climate summit
MADRID — Spain's interim leader has offered to have Madrid host an international U.N. climate conference next month that was originally scheduled to b...
Activist Thunberg declines climate prize, urges more action
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has inspired millions across the world to stage protests urging leaders to better tack...
Swiss lament glacier melting as UN focuses on mountains
GENEVA — A Swiss minister says over 10% of the Alpine country's glaciers have been lost over the last five years — a depletion not seen in over a cent...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s takes on impeachment, Syria, climate
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is persisting in a claim that goes to the heart of the U.S. military withdrawal from Syria — that he's bringing th...
Racial bias in health care software aids whites over blacks
A widely used software program that helps guide care for millions of patients is flawed by unintentional racial bias that leads to blacks getting pass...
Fossil trove shows life’s fast recovery after big extinction
NEW YORK — A remarkable trove of fossils from Colorado has revealed details of how mammals grew larger and plants evolved after the cataclysm that kil...
Google claims breakthrough in blazingly fast computing
SAN FRANCISCO — Google announced Wednesday it has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing, saying it has developed an experimental processor that...