Louisiana Science & Technology News

As of late Monday afternoon, the center of Tropical Storm Ida was still offshore, but it's been raining in southern Mississippi and the Florida panhandle since 9 AM...The storm should make landfall after midnight near Mobile, Alabama. Ida is a...

Scientists studying whale diets in the Gulf of Mexico unexpectedly hauled in a giant squid half as long as a school bus, Reuters reports. The 19.5-foot-long creature dragged up from 1,500 feet below the sea off Louisiana is the first...

The American Medical Association on Tuesday formally called for the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, joining the efforts of gay rights groups to pressure the Obama administration to follow through on his pledge to end the...

One of the students went home and the other relocated to a single room in a residence hall, said Tara Singer, assistant vice president for communications and marketing. The new reports bring the total number of cases on campus to...

Vaccines for the H1N1 virus won't arrive in northeastern Louisiana until late October, but area residents are already taking advantage of seasonal flu vaccines at a high rate. Guy Halley, a pharmacist at Walgreen's in Monroe, said the store ran...

The Mountain View-based company took the unusual step of announcing its latest product on the Labor Day holiday after it prematurely sent out a comic book drawn up to herald the new browser's arrival. The free browser, called "Chrome," is...

November 11, 2009 A federal effort to ban the sale of raw oysters harvested during the warm months along the Gulf Coast has kicked up a hurricane of opposition from oystermen and members of Congress and threatened to derail a...

The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant shift that puts the prestigious group behind calls for more research. The nation's...