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Wis. professor to test stun guns on pigs
Mar 28 2005 10:16PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to study whether stun guns alone can kill pigs _ or whether other medical factors must be at play _ as part of an effort to understand why 70 people have died in North America since 2001 after being shocked by Tasers.
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Scientists puzzled no tsunami after quake
Mar 28 2005 9:16PM (CT)
EWA BEACH, Hawaii (AP) - Tsunami experts could not understand why Monday's forceful earthquake off Indonesia failed to produce massive waves similar to those generated by the Dec. 26 quake that killed at least 175,000 people in the same region.
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Scientists use new fingerprint technique
Mar 28 2005 8:38PM (CT)
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are using a new technique to see fingerprints on surfaces that typically make them invisible.
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Ind. man photographs endangered bobcats
Mar 28 2005 8:00PM (CT)
ANGOLA, Ind. (AP) - A northeastern Indiana hunter who found mysterious animal tracks in a swamp set up an infrared-activated camera that captured images of two endangered bobcats.
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Expert: Hurricane Ivan caused sand loss
Mar 28 2005 8:00PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New measurements of Hurricane Ivan's erosion of beaches, dunes and barrier islands along the Gulf of Mexico underscore how vulnerable the American shoreline is to such storms, a U.S. Geological Survey oceanographer says.
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Study finds high toxins in Wash. fish
Mar 28 2005 7:56PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A state Department of Ecology study has found that fish in the Spokane River have the highest concentrations of toxic flame retardants of any freshwater fish in Washington state.
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Two astronauts complete spacewalk work
Mar 28 2005 7:54PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The two space station astronauts installed antennas and released a baby Sputnik during a spacewalk Monday, completing the work just before the orbiting outpost drifted and rolled slightly because of overloaded gyroscopes.
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Molecule movie offers new twist for kids
Mar 28 2005 1:51PM (CT)
NORTH GREENBUSH, N.Y. (AP) - Old school: sitting under a planetarium dome gazing at a simulated Sagittarius. New school: watching smiling, singing, animated atoms zip around the dome as they journey through a falling snowflake and a stick of chewing gum.
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Bamboo shortage threatens pandas in China
Mar 28 2005 11:01AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Giant pandas in western China could be at risk of starvation because the bamboo plants that they eat are beginning to die off in a cycle that happens about every 60 years, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.
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Scientists recover tissue from T. Rex
Mar 28 2005 6:35AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Octopuses seen walking from predators
Mar 28 2005 6:35AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Octopuses, known for using camouflage to avoid predators, have been observed apparently trying to sneak away by walking on two arms while pretending to be a bunch of algae. Two kinds of octopus were seen to use different ways of walking along the sea floor, researchers were reporting in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
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Experts: Central U.S. could have quakes
Mar 28 2005 6:34AM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Two earthquake experts say the quake that produced the deadly tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December should remind residents of the central United States that they live in an area where a devastating quake could occur.
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UConn seeks to launch stem cells program
Mar 28 2005 6:33AM (CT)
STORRS, Conn. (AP) - As lawmakers consider plans to make the state a hotbed for stem cell research, the University of Connecticut has announced it is poised to become one of the first colleges in the country to launch a program for making human embryonic stem cells.
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Wash. workers find apparent mammoth bones
Mar 28 2005 6:31AM (CT)
SELAH, Wash. (AP) - A construction crew has unearthed what appear to be mammoth bones at least 10,000 years old north of this central Washington town and northeast of Yakima, the company owner says.
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Bridge a portal to revolutionary times
Mar 28 2005 6:30AM (CT)
FERRISBURGH, Vt. (AP) - For more than two centuries, the waters of Lake Champlain have hidden the remains of a marvel of 18th-century engineering _ a bridge built by 2,500 sick and hungry Continental soldiers. Now a piece of that bridge sits in the preservation laboratory at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, destined to give visitors a portal into revolutionary times.
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NASA's comet-busting spacecraft on course
Mar 28 2005 6:29AM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is on course for a July 4 encounter with comet Tempel 1, but mission officials are trying to determine why one of the probe's telescopes has not focused properly, the space agency said.
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