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Beetles may wipe out Colo. lodgepoles
Jan 14 2008 10:58PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Strands of distressed, red pine trees across northern Colorado and the Front Range are a visible testament to the bark beetle infestation that officials said will kill most of the state's lodgepole pine trees within 5 years.
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Scientists test dinos' sexual maturity
Jan 14 2008 8:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Adolescent pregnancy isn't a modern invention, it occurred in dinosaurs millions of years ago. Medullary bone, a type of tissue present in modern birds when they are developing eggs, has been found in three dinosaur fossils, researchers report in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Researchers restart rat heart
Jan 14 2008 6:31PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers seeking new treatments for heart disease managed to grow a rat heart in the lab and start it beating.
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NASA spacecraft speeds by Mercury
Jan 14 2008 5:10PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's Messenger spacecraft sped within 124 miles of Mercury on Monday, putting it on a course that will have it orbiting the solar system's innermost planet in three more years.
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Tsunami linked to Yellowstone crater
Jan 14 2008 4:53PM (CT)
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - Tsunami-like waves created by an earthquake may have triggered the world's largest known hydrothermal explosion some 13,000 years ago, a federal scientist says.
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Sea Launch countdown under way
Jan 14 2008 1:55AM (CT)
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - The long countdown has begun for the second attempt to launch a mobile voice and data services satellite from a Pacific Ocean platform.
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