AP - A 17-year-old girl won a scholarship worth $100,000 for building an inexpensive yet accurate spectrograph that identifies the "fingerprints" of different molecules.

AP - A scholar looking into the factual basis of a popular but widely criticized documentary that claims to have located the tomb of Jesus said Tuesday that a crucial piece of evidence filmmakers used to support their claim is a mistake.

AP - Scientists have discovered what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid, probably methane or ethane, on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, including one about as big as Montana.

AP - The United States and much of Europe have reversed years of deforestation and are showing a net increase in wooded areas, while most developing countries continue to cut down their trees, a U.N. agency said Tuesday.

AFP - Russia's Svobodny space centre, used in recent years to launch US and Israeli satellites, will be shut down Russian media reported on Wednesday.

AFP - Vietnam's prime minister has ordered authorities to take action against illegal tiger farms that have 37 of the endangered animals, the government said on its website Tuesday.

Reuters - For big beasts, dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex sure had small genomes. In a study published on Wednesday, scientists estimated the size of the genome -- the genetic composition of an organism -- for 31 species of dinosaurs and extinct birds, and found that the meat-eating types like T-rex had relatively small genomes.

Reuters - Environmental group Greenpeace launched a fresh attack on genetically modified maize developed by U.S. biotech giant Monsanto, saying on Tuesday that rats fed on one version developed liver and kidney problems.