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Japanese rocket lifts off from island
Jan 23 2006 9:39PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - After repeated delays, a Japanese H-2A rocket lifted off from its launchpad Tuesday carrying a four-ton observation satellite.
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Warming probably not killing Ariz. frogs
Jan 23 2006 9:15PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Arizona researchers say that a fungal disease killing off frogs in the state probably isn't being triggered by global warming.
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NASA official to seek extraterrestrials
Jan 23 2006 9:14PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - G. Scott Hubbard, who has led a NASA research center since 2002 and investigated the space shuttle Columbia tragedy, is stepping down to accept a position with an organization that studies the possibility of life beyond Earth, he said Monday.
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EPA to accept pesticide tests on humans
Jan 23 2006 8:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time is establishing criteria for tests by pesticide makers on human subjects.
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Russia delays launch to space station
Jan 23 2006 8:01PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's space agency has postponed the launch of the next manned mission to the international space station by one week, to March 30, a spokesman said Monday according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.
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NASA postpones mission to visit asteroids
Jan 23 2006 7:57PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A NASA spacecraft built to explore two of the solar system's largest asteroids won't launch this year because the space agency is dealing with cost overruns and technical issues in the project.
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Research site full of Yellowstone bison
Jan 23 2006 7:56PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A research site north of Yellowstone National Park has filled to capacity with young bison that will be used in studying whether brucellosis-free herds can be produced from quarantine.
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NYC subway workers find 18th century wall
Jan 23 2006 7:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - For the second time in as many months, workers excavating a subway tunnel on the southern tip of Manhattan struck what is believed to be a pre-Revolutionary stone wall.
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Team unearths statue of Egypt's Queen Ti
Jan 23 2006 7:53PM (CT)
LUXOR, Egypt (AP) - A Johns Hopkins University archaeological team has unearthed a statue of Queen Ti, one of the most important women in ancient Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities announced Monday.
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Necropsy performed on River Thames whale
Jan 23 2006 9:47AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A marine mammal expert conducted a necropsy Sunday on the whale that wandered into the River Thames, hoping to determine what caused the 20-foot-long animal to veer off course and splash through central London before dying during Saturday's rescue attempt.
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