Swine flu is present 'in virtually the entire country,' CDC expert says

Pandemic H1N1 influenza "is here . . . in virtually the entire country," Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

NASA's moon crash is no spectacle, but could be a success

As entertainment, NASA's moon punch mission was more "Heaven's Gate" than "Raiders of the Lost Ark." As science, however, it might still...

War injury leads to advances at home

A world away from the roadside bombs and combat injuries of Iraq and Afghanistan, Americans are suffering the same type of brain injury seen...

2 Americans, Israeli share Nobel Prize in chemistry

Two Americans and an Israeli who mapped the precise structure of the ribosome -- the cell's critical protein-making factory -- won the...

Virus discovery called breakthrough in fight against chronic fatigue syndrome

In what may prove to be the first major breakthrough in the fight against the mysterious and controversial disorder known as chronic fatigue...

Pacific Ocean 'dead zone' in Northwest may be irreversible

An oxygen-depleted "dead zone" the size of New Jersey is starving sea life off the coast of Oregon and Washington and will probably appear...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce shrugs off defections

The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday brushed off decisions by a string of high-profile companies to break with the nation'...

Few Bush-era energy leases are valid, report finds

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that only 17 of 77 oil and gas leases on Utah public lands that the Bush administration...

Awaiting a puff of moon dust

In the predawn hours Friday, while those on the West Coast still snooze, a rocket is scheduled to punch a 13-foot-deep hole in a crater at...

3 Americans win Nobel in physics

One scientist set the stage for the globe-girdling fiber-optic networks that transmit the bulk of everyday television, telephone and other...