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Nearly 1 in 20 US adults over 50 have fake knees (AP) -- Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:44:09 GMT

AP - Nearly 1 in 20 Americans older than 50 have artificial knees, or more than 4 million people, according to the first national estimate showing how common these replacement joints have become in an aging population.

Mexican experts excited to find ancient home ruins (AP) -- Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:48:47 GMT

AP - The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited.

Researchers probe 200-year-old shipwreck off RI (AP) -- Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:38:50 GMT

AP - For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.

Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else (AP) -- Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:01:27 GMT

AP - If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.

Future of Long-Distance Love Is Cool But Creepy (LiveScience.com) -- Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:40:00 GMT

LiveScience.com - It's 2025 and your boyfriend has been temporarily posted to Tokyo, while you're still stuck in the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. How will you keep in touch? Well, maybe hug shirts and larger-than-life videoconferencing will help you out.

Oil spill fouls river in eastern Venezuela (AP) -- Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:51:02 GMT

AP - Crude oil that spilled from a ruptured pipeline has blackened a river in eastern Venezuela, and the state oil company said workers are containing the spill.

Audit: ND university awarded unearned degrees (AP) -- Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:54:08 GMT

AP - Facing pressure to bring in more students as North Dakota's booming oil industry made it tougher to coax new high school graduates into college, Dickinson State University began looking overseas to boost its enrollment.

NASA Eyes Plan for Deep-Space Outpost Near the Moon (SPACE.com) -- Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:44:59 GMT

SPACE.com - NASA is pressing forward on assessing the value of a "human-tended waypoint" near the far side of the moon — one that would embrace international partnerships as well as commercial and academic participation, SPACE.com has learned.

Two Genes for Sealing In Memories Identified (LiveScience.com) -- Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:04:58 GMT

LiveScience.com - Inside the teensy brains of fruit flies lies the blueprint for how memories form — information that likely carries over to our bulky noggins — and researchers have just identified two genes that are key to forming long-term memories.

Hormel ending tight confinement for pregnant pigs (AP) -- Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:29:42 GMT

AP - Hormel Foods Corp.'s company-owned farms are phasing out the use of small metal crates for confining pregnant hogs by the end of 2017 — a move welcomed Thursday by the Humane Society of the United States, which had pushed for the change.

Georgia to Be Home to First Nuclear Reactors Since Three Mile Island (ContributorNetwork) -- Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:04:33 GMT

ContributorNetwork - On Thursday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted its first approved licenses for new nuclear reactors built on American soil since before the Three Mile Island incident in 1979. The news brings with it the first manifestation of the so-called renaissance of nuclear power in the United States predicted back in 2007.

The nation's weather (AP) -- Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:34:56 GMT

AP - The East will dry out Sunday as wet weather moves across the West.

NASA Invites Twitter Fans to 2013 Space Budget Announcement (SPACE.com) -- Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:00:03 GMT

SPACE.com - NASA chief Charlie Bolden will roll out the space agency's next budget Monday (Feb. 13) in a room full of reporters — and some of the agency's die-hard Twitter fans.

Origin expects to grow China's first GMO corn in 2013 (Reuters) -- Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:06:59 GMT

Reuters - Origin Agritech Ltd said it expects the Chinese government to approve its genetically modified organism (GMO) corn for production in 2013, China's first GMO strain in commercial production, its chairman Han Gengchen said on Friday.

Iran sanctions already hitting oil trade flows: IEA (Reuters) -- Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:24:53 GMT

Reuters - Sanctions on Iran are already hitting global oil flows even though a European ban on imports from the Islamic Republic does not come into effect until July, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.

Japan priest fights invisible demon: radiation (Reuters) -- Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:51:30 GMT

Reuters - On the snowy fringes of Japan's Fukushima city, now notorious as a byword for nuclear crisis, Zen monk Koyu Abe offers prayers for the souls of thousands left dead or missing after the earthquake and tsunami nearly one year ago.