More Earth, Science & Technology

(AP) -- An all-star panel of researchers says it was the crash of a giant asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs.

SAN FRANCISCO (USA TODAY) - "Hey Alice, look at the pics I took of us last weekend at the picnic. Bob"

New York (USA TODAY) -- Looking for science? Headed for Animal Planet or the Science Channel?

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) -- Top officials of the federal Environmental Protection Agency are honoring South Carolina agencies for using stimulus money to help keep the air clean.

(CBS News) -- With major seismic events in Haiti and Chile occurring so close together, and relatively close to the United States, is another major earthquake due to strike our country?

(AP) An iceberg about the size of Luxembourg that struck a glacier off Antarctica and dislodged another massive block of ice could lower the levels of oxygen in the world's oceans, Australian and French scientists said Friday.

Columbia (WLTX) -- Lexington County's Ducks Unlimited chapter was awards one of the top 100 in the nation.

(CBS News) -- Good news for fans of polyandry, which is the practice of females mating with multiple males in species from mammals to insects: You may hold in your hands - or loins, maybe - the key for the survival of humanity.

(USA TODAY) - Although global warming could cause the number of tropical cyclones to decrease around the world by the end of the century, the storms that do form probably will be more intense, a study in the journal Nature Geoscience finds.

(AP) -- Fossils of a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur have been found in slabs of Utah sandstone that were so hard that explosives had to be used to free some of the remains, scientists said Tuesday. The bones found at Dinosaur National Monument belonged to a type of sauropod - long-necked plant-eaters that were said to be the largest animal ever to roam land.

No Flight, No Bite: Genetic Researchers Say Wingless Female Mosquitoes Could Curb Fatal Fever

(USA TODAY) Allegations of unintended acceleration by
Toyota models that are not part of the recall and by cars from other automakers have revived debate over whether electromagnetic interference is the cause of such incidents.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A top official of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will outline the proposed budget for the agency during a visit to South Carolina.

USA TODAY -- Electron microscopes reveal sand inside the outer covering of the 2001 bioterror attack spores, showing they weren't "weaponized."

(WLTX) - William Gordon, the engineer who designed, built and managed the world's biggest radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, has died at the age of 92.

(AP) -- A suburban Philadelphia school district used school-issued laptop webcams to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a family claims in a federal lawsuit.

(USA Today) - A new app for iPhones and iPods aims to settle arguments over global warming, which have intensified since record snowfall hit parts of the East Coast.

(USA TODAY) - NASA astronomers unveiled images Wednesday from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), launched in December.