... religious positions. A scientific definition of evolution, at least one offered by Associated Press science writer Paul Recer, is that it is a "theory developed by Charles Darwin and others which holds that the earth is billions of years old ...

Friday, September 19, 1997 By PAUL RECER GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- A drug that looks like a candy lollipop and tastes like raspberry may soon help cancer patients endure ...

Tuesday, October 7, 1997 By PAUL RECER WASHINGTON -- As a young doctor in 1972, Stanley B. Prusiner set out to solve the puzzle of a disease that somehow chews ...

Thursday, July 31, 1997 By PAUL RECER BOSTON -- Seven previously unknown large asteroids that are close enough and large enough to threaten the Earth have been found ...

Friday, September 19, 1997 By PAUL RECER WASHINGTON -- A series of mounds built by moving tons of dirt and gravel may be the oldest known complex of earthern structures ...

Friday, May 22, 1998 By PAUL RECER WASHINGTON -- Using cloning techniques similar to those that created the sheep Dolly, researchers have produced six genetically ...

Thursday, March 12, 1998 By PAUL RECER WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's not time to panic, but Earthlings need to keep an eye on a mile-wide asteroid that will zip ...

Wednesday, January 14, 1998 By PAUL RECER WASHINGTON -- It won't make people younger or allow them to live forever, but researchers say a laboratory experiment shows ...

Wednesday, July 22, 1998 By PAUL RECER WASHINGTON -- Astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to fly in space and one of only 12 Americans to walk on the moon ...

Friday, December 19, 1997 By PAUL RECER WASHINGTON -- Using a technique pioneered with their famous cloned sheep, Dolly, Scottish scientists now have cloned two ...