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Archeologists say excavations in Iraq will continue to prove informative:

As security improves to allow excavation, evidence may emerge that advanced societies existed in the area much earlier than previously thought, said Dr. John Russell, professor of archaeology at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.

"A decade of research in Iraq could rewrite the books of archaeology, no question," Russell, who is currently serving as a senior adviser to Iraq's ministry of culture, told Reuters on Thursday at the opening of new conservation and restoration laboratory at Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad.

...In each year, he said, his team made discoveries that essentially pushed back the timeline for ancient civilization by a millennium. "It was just absolutely incredible, they were unprecedented discoveries. But Iraq is like that," he said.

GOP donor gets to drill in NM wilderness, insisting all the while that there's nothing fishy, whatever.

Former Senator and retired astronaut John Glenn attacks Bush's space proposal.

...The octogenarian space pioneer's most cutting comments were reserved for NASA's plans to gut the International Space Station of a once-ambitious research agenda, limiting science only to studies applicable to the moon and Mars program.

...He said cutting the research component of the space station program would save only about $2.5 million. ...

The other Mars rover also finding signs of water.

UK scientists don't want to let GMO crops in.

Pacific ocean leatherback turtles will be extinct within a decade if conservation measures aren't undertaken immediately, and poaching halted.

A species of African hornbill has been observed responding to the predator alarms of monkeys.