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Satellites launch on substorm mission
Feb 17 2007 11:09PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Five science satellites blasted off on a single rocket into a golden sunset Saturday on a mission to figure out the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Satellites launch on substorm mission
Feb 17 2007 11:09PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Five science satellites blasted off on a single rocket into a golden sunset Saturday on a mission to figure out the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Satellites launch on substorm mission
Feb 17 2007 11:09PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Five science satellites blasted off on a single rocket into a golden sunset Saturday on a mission to figure out the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere.
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U.S. has more science smarts - sort of
Feb 17 2007 9:19PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - People in the U.S. know more about basic science today than they did two decades ago, good news that researchers say is tempered by an unsettling growth in the belief in pseudoscience such as astrology and visits by extraterrestrial aliens.
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Tire reef off Florida proves a disaster
Feb 17 2007 5:16PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A mile offshore from this city's high-rise condos and spring-break bars lie as many as 2 million old tires, strewn across the ocean floor _ a white-walled, steel-belted monument to good intentions gone awry.
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Infants form memories, but forget them
Feb 17 2007 12:44AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Adults thinking back rarely can remember anything before preshool, but those bright infant eyes staring back at mommy and daddy really are forming memories. It's just that babies also forget. In fact, babies' rate of forgetting is even faster than that of adults, Patricia J. Bauer of Duke University said Friday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Tiny frog in amber may be 25M years old
Feb 17 2007 12:42AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A miner in the state of Chiapas found a tiny tree frog that has been preserved in amber for 25 million years, a researcher said. If authenticated, the preserved frog would be the first of its kind found in Mexico, according to David Grimaldi, a biologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the find.
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