HONG KONG - A SECOND rare Chinese sturgeon, which was one of 10 gift fish from Beijing in celebration of the Beijing Olympic Games in August, has died in a Hong Kong amusement park, officials said Friday.
MOUNTAIN VIEW (California) - GOOGLE Inc is shifting its Web browser out of test mode just 100 days after its debut, an unusually quick transition for a company known for keeping the 'beta' tag on some products for years.
Thursday's removal of the test label from Google's browser, called Chrome, underscores its importance to the Internet search leader.
WASHINGTON - A PECULIAR amphibian that was clad in bony armor prowled warm lakes 210 million years ago, catching fish and other tasty snacks with one of the most unusual bites in the history of life on Earth.
The creature called Gerrothorax pulcherrimus, which lived alongside some of the early dinosaurs, opened its mouth not by dropping its lower jaw, as other vertebrate animals do.
SAN ANTONIO - A NEW test to predict an average woman's odds of getting breast cancer works better than a method doctors have relied on for decades, researchers reported on Friday.
The test is the first to combine dozens of genes and personal factors like age and childbearing to gauge risk in women who don't have a strong family history of the disease. They account for three-fourths of all cases.
