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Scientists photograph Kauai wolf spiders
Jan 25 2006 10:55PM (CT)
KOLOA, Hawaii (AP) - No one had ever photographed a baby Kauai wolf spider being carried on its mother's interlocking back hairs until two Hawaii scientists caught the shot.
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Scientists: Gains may shape competition
Jan 25 2006 8:38PM (CT)
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) - Memory enhancement, IQ boosters and drugs designed to attack genetic weaknesses may increase competition in the future and create a playing field that is far from equal, scientists at the World Economic Forum said Wednesday.
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Administration pitches new salmon policy
Jan 25 2006 8:20PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Conceding that using hatcheries to supplement dwindling salmon populations is harming wild salmon species in some cases, the Bush administration plans to move away from the practice in favor of a more direct solution: Catch fewer fish.
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Tiny mouse may stay on endangered list
Jan 25 2006 8:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An acrobatic mouse is threatening Bush administration efforts to give Western developers an upper hand over endangered species.
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High cancer rates found in Md. catfish
Jan 25 2006 8:04PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - More than half of one species of catfish sampled in the South River had skin tumors, matching the highest rate in the nation, wildlife officials said.
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Scientists use Web site to predict disease
Jan 25 2006 8:04PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Scientists think they may have found a better way to predict how diseases like a global flu epidemic could spread: Follow the money.
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Astronomers find small, distant planet
Jan 25 2006 8:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Astronomers say they've found what may be the smallest and most distant planet known to be orbiting a star outside our own solar system.
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Scientists cite cause of whale's death
Jan 25 2006 7:54PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A Northern bottlenose whale that swam up the River Thames last week, splashing past Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament before dying during a rescue effort, suffered from a combination of dehydration, kidney failure and muscle damage, scientists said Wednesday.
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National Zoo euthanizes ailing elephant
Jan 25 2006 6:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Zoo euthanized a 40-year-old Asian elephant Wednesday following what officials called a dramatic decline in her physical condition and quality of life.
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Wyo. rancher gives Pitt land with fossils
Jan 25 2006 9:53AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Wyoming rancher with no connection to the University of Pittsburgh has given the school 4,700 acres of land littered with dinosaur fossils.
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Japan scientists find million-year-old ice
Jan 25 2006 9:53AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A team of Japanese researchers drilling on Antarctica has recovered what is believed to be the oldest sample of ice ever _ possibly dating back 1 million years, officials said Tuesday.
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S. Korea release report in stem cell case
Jan 25 2006 12:47AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean prosecutors found no evidence that disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk created cloned embryonic stem cells that matched patients, a report said Wednesday, corroborating the results of an investigation by his university.
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