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Grand Canyon, Loch Ness compete as nature wonders (AP)
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 3:11 No CommentsAP - The Grand Canyon, Mount Everest and Loch Ness will vie with more than 200 other spectacular places in the next phase of the global competition for the New 7 Wonders of Nature, organizers said Wednesday. The 261 nominees from 222 countries include some of the most famous mountain peaks, lakes, and other attractions, [...]
Milky Way the galaxy not snack-sized anymore (AP)
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:09 No CommentsAP - Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth’s cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore.
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Bush to establish 3 marine monuments in Pacific (AP)
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:09 No CommentsAP - The home of a giant land crab, a sunken island ringed by pink-colored coral, and equatorial waters teeming with sharks and other predators are being designated national marine monuments by President George W. Bush in the largest marine conservation effort in history.
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Milky Way the galaxy not snack-sized anymore (AP)
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 0:08 No CommentsAP - Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth’s cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore. The Milky Way is considerably larger, bulkier and spinning faster than astronomers once thought, Andromeda’s equal.
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Milky Way the galaxy not snack-sized anymore (AP)
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 0:08 No CommentsAP - Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth’s cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore. The Milky Way is considerably larger, bulkier and spinning faster than astronomers once thought, Andromeda’s equal.
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Mars rover mission reaches 5th anniversary (AP)
Sunday, January 4, 2009 12:03 No CommentsAP - Five years after the NASA rover Spirit landed on Mars, the six-wheel robotic geologist and its twin Opportunity are still on the job.
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Mars rover mission reaches 5th anniversary (AP)
Sunday, January 4, 2009 3:02 No CommentsAP - Five years after the NASA rover Spirit landed on Mars, the six-wheel robotic geologist and its twin Opportunity are still on the job.
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More small quakes rattle Yellowstone National Park (AP)
Saturday, January 3, 2009 6:01 No CommentsAP - More earthquakes are rattling Yellowstone National Park.
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Exploiting nature to cut mosquitoes’ life short (AP)
Friday, January 2, 2009 6:06 No CommentsAP - Old mosquitoes usually spread disease, so Australian researchers figured out a way to make the pests die younger naturally, not poisoned.
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Study: Hawaii’s pygmy killer whales stay close (AP)
Thursday, January 1, 2009 18:01 No CommentsAP - A new study of pygmy killer whales one of the least understood marine mammal species shows that those living off Hawaii tend to stay close to the islands and don’t swim out to the open ocean.
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NASA chief’s wife to Obama: Don’t fire my husband (AP)
Thursday, January 1, 2009 6:02 No CommentsAP - Late on Christmas Eve, one last wish was sent, by e-mail: Please let NASA Administrator Michael Griffin keep his job. It was from his wife. Rebecca Griffin, who works in marketing, sent her message with the subject line “Campaign for Mike” to friends and family. It asked them to sign an online petition [...]
New NASA report details final minutes of Columbia (AP)
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 6:05 No CommentsAP - When the first of many loud alarms sounded on the space shuttle Columbia, the seven astronauts had about a minute to live, though they didn’t know it. The pilot, William McCool, pushed several buttons trying to right the ship as it tumbled out of control. He didn’t know it was futile. Most of [...]
Just a second, 2009 the Earth needs to catch up (AP)
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 6:05 No CommentsAP - Just a second, 2009. It’s going to take a little longer to say goodbye to the worst economic year since the Great Depression, but all for good cause.
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Ancient ship found buried near Argentine river (AP)
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 6:04 No CommentsAP - Workers digging to lay the foundation of a luxury apartment complex in Argentina uncovered a Spanish ship believed to be from the 18th century.
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NASA reports graphic details of Columbia deaths (AP)
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 18:01 No CommentsAP - A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn’t work well, leading to “lethal trauma” as the out-of-control ship broke apart, killing all seven astronauts.
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Scientists eye unusual swarm of Yellowstone quakes (AP)
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:52 No CommentsAP - Yellowstone National Park was jostled by a host of small earthquakes for a third straight day Monday, and scientists watched closely to see whether the more than 250 tremors were a sign of something bigger to come. Swarms of small earthquakes happen frequently in Yellowstone, but it’s very unusual for so many earthquakes [...]
Hard to hear at holiday parties? Blame your brain (AP)
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:52 No CommentsAP - It’s almost New Year’s Eve, a time for plunging into boisterous crowds bathed in loud music.
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Can dolphins survive winter in NJ rivers? (AP)
Monday, December 29, 2008 15:58 No CommentsAP - A group of bottlenose dolphins have been confounding humans since they took up residence in two rivers near the Jersey shore six months ago. Now that it’s winter, some people are worried they’ll never make it out.
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Hobbyists are trying genetic engineering at home (AP)
Friday, December 26, 2008 9:00 No CommentsAP - The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself.
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Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home (AP)
Thursday, December 25, 2008 21:01 No CommentsAP - The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself.
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Single male rhino, 20, seeks mate to save species (AP)
Thursday, December 25, 2008 21:01 No CommentsAP - He probably hasn’t dated in two decades, but the survival of a species may depend on whether Tam can get lucky soon.
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US, Russian space station crew conduct spacewalk (AP)
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:02 No CommentsAP - American and Russian crewmen installed a probe Tuesday aimed at tracking down problems with a Russian module attached to the international space station and conducted an array of other maintenance and scientific work during a six-hour spacewalk.
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4,300-year-old pharaonic tombs unveiled near Cairo (AP)
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:02 No CommentsAP - A pair of 4,300-year-old pharaonic tombs discovered at Saqqara indicate that the sprawling necropolis south of Cairo is even larger than previously thought, Egypt’s top archaeologist said Monday. The rock-cut tombs were built for high officials — one responsible for the quarries used to build the nearby pyramids and another for a woman [...]
4,300-year-old pharaonic tombs unveiled near Cairo (AP)
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 0:02 No CommentsAP - A pair of 4,300-year-old pharaonic tombs discovered at Saqqara indicate that the sprawling necropolis south of Cairo is even larger than previously thought, Egypt’s top archaeologist said Monday. The rock-cut tombs were built for high officials one responsible for the quarries used to build the nearby pyramids and another for a woman [...]
Israelis unearth Byzantine gold hoard (AP)
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 0:02 No CommentsAP - Israeli archaeologists said they have unearthed more than 250 gold coins from the seventh century on the edge of Jerusalem’s walled Old City. A British tourist volunteering at the dig discovered the trove on Sunday.
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Pope marks Galileo anniversary, praises astronomy (AP)
Monday, December 22, 2008 0:01 No CommentsAP - Pope Benedict XVI is marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s use of a telescope.
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Obama names 4 top members of science team (AP)
Sunday, December 21, 2008 0:01 No CommentsAP - President-elect Barack Obama’s selection Saturday of a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist for science posts is a sign he plans a more aggressive response to global warming than did the Bush administration.
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Researchers probe scat for clues to orca decline (AP)
Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:01 No CommentsAP - Using a trained dog to sniff for poop and petri dishes attached to long poles, scientists are analyzing killer whales’ scat and breath samples in the hopes of solving the mystery of Puget Sound’s dwindling orca population.
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Obama names Holdren, Lubchenco to science posts (AP)
Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:01 No CommentsAP - President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to top science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science.
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NY exhibit unveils women’s lives in ancient Greece (AP)
Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:01 No CommentsAP - A woman’s place has never been just in the home not even in ancient Greece.
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American Indian cremation pit found on Ga. island (AP)
Friday, December 19, 2008 12:06 No CommentsAP - Exposed by erosion at the edge of a crumbling bluff, the pit discovered beneath 2 feet of sandy dirt at first appeared to be a grave just long and deep enough to bury a human body.
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Wildlife experts ponder gender of Santa’s reindeer (AP)
Friday, December 19, 2008 12:06 No CommentsAP - There may be a perfectly good reason why Santa doesn’t get lost on his annual Christmas globetrot: His flying reindeer just might be female and don’t mind stopping for directions.
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Mars find suggests area may have been hospitable (AP)
Friday, December 19, 2008 12:06 No CommentsAP - An orbiting spacecraft has discovered a key mineral in bedrock on the Martian surface that suggests the planet might once have had an environment hospitable to life, scientists reported Thursday.
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New ban imposed on regulating global warming gases (AP)
Friday, December 19, 2008 12:06 No CommentsAP - The Bush administration is trying to make sure in its final days that federal air pollution regulations will not be used to control the gases blamed for global warming.
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Dinosaur Dads Watched Over Eggs (LiveScience.com)
Friday, December 19, 2008 12:06 No CommentsLiveScience.com - In families of some of the most vicious and carnivorous dinosaurs, dad took care of the developing eggs, possibly laid by more than one mom, a new study suggests.
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Rare snowfall blankets Las Vegas’s bright lights (AFP)
Friday, December 19, 2008 12:06 No CommentsAFP - Las Vegas was grappling with the aftermath of a once-in-a-generation snowstorm on Thursday which coated the famous icons of Las Vegas and forced the closure of the city’s airport.
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New Space Toilet Has No Door…Yet (SPACE.com)
Friday, December 19, 2008 12:06 No CommentsSPACE.com - Astronauts
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this week, but it’s missing one last touch: A simple door, for privacy.
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Officers: Pierced ‘gothic kittens’ marketed on Web (AP)
Friday, December 19, 2008 12:06 No CommentsAP - Humane officers say a Pennsylvania woman marketed “gothic kittens” with ear, neck and tail piercings over the Internet. Officers with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals removed three kittens and a cat Wednesday from a home outside Wilkes-Barre, about 20 miles southwest of Scranton.
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Daddy day-care: dinosaur fathers guarded the eggs (Reuters)
Friday, December 19, 2008 12:06 No CommentsReuters - You can call it dino daddy day-care.
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Oil steadies above $36 after 4-½ year low (Reuters)
Friday, December 19, 2008 12:06 No CommentsReuters - Oil regained some ground above $36 on Friday, after falling more than 20 percent this week as OPEC’s record supply cut failed to build a floor under prices and instead was viewed as a sign of a worsening demand slump.
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