By Tom Beal, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson May 24--Mother Nature dropped a blanket of snow and rain on Southeast Arizona and Southwest New Mexico Friday, pretty much snuffing the Frye Mesa Fire on the slopes of Mount Graham near Safford and the Whitmire Fire in the grasslands of the Malpais in the bootheel of New Mexico.

By Kevin Mayhood, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Mar. 8--The Large Binocular Telescope became the world's most powerful camera this week when astronomers released pictures of a "nearby" galaxy some 102 million light-years from Earth.

The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Ariz., has taken celestial images using its twin side-by-side, 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) primary mirrors together, achieving first "binocular" light.

Mount Graham's newly completed Large Binocular Telescope is now the most powerful optical telescope on -- or off -- Earth.

British scientists are helping U.S. researchers prevent a unique type of red squirrel from becoming extinct within as few as 30 years.