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NASA announces new mission in Costa Rica
Jan 19 2006 9:25PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - NASA scientists said Thursday they have launched a new study on climate change using a special aircraft that will enter the high troposphere _ the lowest level of the earth's atmosphere _ in the tropics.
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Feds want independent to head owl recovery
Jan 19 2006 8:05PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking an independent contractor to head development of a recovery plan for the threatened northern spotted owl, whose numbers are believed to be shrinking.
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Archaeologists find tomb under Roman Forum
Jan 19 2006 8:02PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Archaeologists digging beneath the Roman Forum have discovered a 3,000-year-old tomb that pre-dates the birth of ancient Rome by several hundred years.
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Unmanned spacecraft hurtles toward Pluto
Jan 19 2006 7:56PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - An unmanned NASA spacecraft hurtled toward Pluto on Thursday on a 3-billion-mile journey to the solar system's last unexplored planet _ a voyage so long that some of the scientists who will be celebrating its arrival are just taking their first physics class.
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Wind generator to use fire to examine bats
Jan 19 2006 7:56PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The nation's largest generator of wind power plans to use fire to study bat habitats. FPL Energy LLC operates 43 wind farms in 15 states, including the Mountaineer Wind Energy Center in Tucker County.
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Researchers want to count white pelicans
Jan 19 2006 7:56PM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Researchers say they want to conduct the first census of the American white pelican population in North America in about 25 years.
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Study: Gas development harms sage grouse
Jan 19 2006 7:44PM (CT)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The federal government needs to impose new restrictions on oil and gas development in the West because current policies are failing to protect sage grouse, according to conservationists citing a new study of the birds in western Wyoming.
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Space debris accumulating, report says
Jan 19 2006 7:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 9,000 pieces of space debris are orbiting the Earth, a hazard that can only be expected to get worse in the next few years. And currently there's no workable and economic way to clean up the mess.
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Ex-EPA chiefs blame Bush in global warming
Jan 19 2006 7:20PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. is failing to take the lead in confronting global warming, a "dishonest" and "self-destructive" approach that only worsens the problem, say former federal environmental chiefs.
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New animal species found in Calif. caves
Jan 19 2006 7:19PM (CT)
SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - Twenty-seven previously unknown species of spiders, centipedes, scorpion-like creatures and other animals have been discovered in the dark, damp caves beneath two national parks in the Sierra Nevada, biologists say.
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Stardust space capsule arrives in Houston
Jan 19 2006 5:24PM (CT)
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - A space capsule that captured interstellar and comet dust during a seven-year voyage through the heavens was finally opened by scientists this week, and they were delighted with what they found.
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Japan hopes rocket will help space program
Jan 19 2006 2:07PM (CT)
TANEGASHIMA, Japan (AP) - First, a technical glitch forced the launch date to be set back. Then a thunderstorm came in and hit this remote island in southern Japan with buckets of rain and howling winds.
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Study: men enjoy seeing bad people suffer
Jan 19 2006 9:38AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Bill Clinton said he felt others' pain. But a new brain-scanning study suggests that when guys see a cheater get a mild electric shock, they don't feel his pain much at all. In fact, they rather enjoy it.
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