AURORA, Neb.  —  A storm system that brought rain, hail and strong winds to several Midwestern states spawned tornadoes Thursday night in parts of Nebraska.
A few businesses sustained severe damage and at least one house was partially destroyed when a tornado struck the southern outskirts of Aurora.
Tornadoes were also reported in Kearney, where about 90 [...]

Whether genetically modified (GM) foods are safe or beneficial is still controversial, but some people would prefer to avoid them until the evidence is clear. Most foods we eat may contain ingredients derived from genetically modified organisms (GMOs)–everything from baby formula and food to our dairy to even our meat. If you live in Europe, [...]

WELLINGTON, Utah —  Along Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon lies what some call the longest art gallery in the world — thousands of prehistoric rock carvings and paintings of bighorn sheep and other wildlife, hunters wielding spears, and warriors engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
But now, a dramatic increase in natural gas drilling is proposed on the plateau above [...]

Space is cool, that much is clear. Being in space — well, that’s even cooler. Getting there, however, can be a problem. In the past you had to undergo years of schooling and become somewhat of a "rocket scientist." And, well, that’s a lot of work and can really be a drag. However, what if [...]

HANOI (Reuters) – An unidentified flying object exploded in mid-air over a southern Vietnamese island, state media said Wednesday, a day after Cambodia’s air force retracted a report of a mysterious plane crash.
The Vietnam News Agency said residents of Phu Quoc island, 10 km (6 miles) off the coast of the Cambodian province of Kampot, [...]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – German chemical company BASF may take legal action against the European Commission if approval of its genetically modified (GMO) potato is not issued soon, a senior company official said on Thursday.
"We are prepared to take legal action against the Commission," said Stefan Marcinowski, a member of BASF’s board of executive directors told [...]

MANILA, Philippines—Rice "contaminated" with an unauthorized genetically modified organism (GMO) has reached the tables of Filipino households, the environmental group Greenpeace said Thursday.
Greenpeace called on the government to stop selling to the public the 44,000 metric tons of long grain rice it imported from the United States two months ago, saying that the rice variety [...]

According to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, 53 percent of Americans say they won’t buy food that has been genetically modified. But CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports that it’s not that easy to avoid. While most packaged and processed foods do contain genetically modified ingredients, the labels don’t have to [...]

Instead of Open XML, BECTA wants the EU to compel Microsoft to support open standards, such as the Open Document Format.
The agency that governs educational technology in the U.K. has filed a formal complaint against Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) with the European Union.
The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) contends that Microsoft has failed to [...]

WASHINGTON — For legendary astronaut and former senator John Glenn, the video clips brought back memories of old friends. For the rest of the nation, they provided a glimpse of NASA’s glory days.
The clips were among 100 hours of historic space footage, newly restored in high definition, released publicly Tuesday at a Capitol Hill ceremony [...]

WASHINGTON — For legendary astronaut and former senator John Glenn, the video clips brought back memories of old friends. For the rest of the nation, they provided a glimpse of NASA’s glory days.
The clips were among 100 hours of historic space footage, newly restored in high definition, released publicly Tuesday at a Capitol Hill ceremony [...]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. —  West Virginia’s primary next week offers Hillary Rodham Clinton some of the friendliest terrain yet in her drawn-out struggle with Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination as she fights to keep her candidacy alive.
The state looks a lot like the America of a bygone era: overwhelmingly white, largely rural, and proudly blue-collar.
That [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Residents of Juneau, Alaska’s capital city, have been forced to cut energy use since a series of avalanches wiped out transmission towers and electrical lines, cutting off all power from the area’s hydroelectric system.
The extensive damage has forced Juneau to rely on costly electricity from backup generators fueled by diesel, which is [...]

WASHINGTON – The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday.
"The long-term prognosis is not very optimistic," atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University said at a briefing.
Last summer sea ice in the North shrank to a record low, a change many attribute [...]

WASHINGTON – The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday.
"The long-term prognosis is not very optimistic," atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University said at a briefing.
Last summer sea ice in the North shrank to a record low, a change many attribute [...]