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Volcano on Indonesia's Sumatra erupts
Apr 11 2005 10:25PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A volcano on Indonesia's Sumatra Island erupted Tuesday, spewing out clouds of ash and causing villages on its slopes to flee their homes in panic, government volcanologists said.
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Activity settles down on Mount St. Helens
Apr 11 2005 10:22PM (CT)
MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. (AP) - Surging seismic activity at Mount St. Helens has changed the whale-back shape of the volcano's emerging new dome, leaving it more like the back of a stegosaurus _ a dinosaur with bony plates of armor along its spine.
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Hawaii neighborhood unites against frogs
Apr 11 2005 9:52PM (CT)
MAKAWAO, Hawaii (AP) - A group of neighbors in a rural Upcountry Maui community has banded together to rid their yards of annoying coqui frogs.
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Russia, France sign launch pad agreement
Apr 11 2005 9:22PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian and French space officials signed a $448 million deal Monday to build a new South American launch pad for sending Russian rockets into space.
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Low-cost satellite boosted into orbit
Apr 11 2005 8:35PM (CT)
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - A low-cost U.S. Air Force research satellite was boosted into orbit Monday by a rocket built from the engines of a decommissioned missile and Pegasus boosters.
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Low-cost satellite boosted into orbit
Apr 11 2005 8:34PM (CT)
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - A low-cost U.S. Air Force research satellite was boosted into orbit Monday by a rocket built from the engines of a decommissioned missile and Pegasus boosters.
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Scientists work on shuttle wing sensors
Apr 11 2005 8:32PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are helping NASA ensure the safety of the space shuttle Discovery. The scientists are preparing a new network of sensors embedded in the shuttle's wing. They will detect anything the strikes the wing and let astronauts know the severity of the damage, said Sandia engineer Ken Gwinn.
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University gets $19M to study polar ice
Apr 11 2005 8:28PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - The University of Kansas will be home to a center studying the melting of polar ice caps, financed by the largest federal grant a Kansas university has ever received, officials said Monday.
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Global-warming experts address 100 loggers
Apr 11 2005 8:25PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Some experts say global warming is changing wooded regions across the nation, and Northwest timber industry workers are among those following the phenomenon amid concern it could eventually affect their livelihoods.
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Study to see if fish farms attrack sharks
Apr 11 2005 8:23PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Thanks to the movie monsters, every swimmer is keenly aware that the ocean is filled with more than harmless little fish. And Leeward Oahu residents say they have seen more sharks since a fish farm took up residence about two miles offshore at Ewa Beach almost six years ago, said William Aila, a resident and fisherman.
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Researchers study toxic newts, snakes
Apr 11 2005 8:16PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah State University reachers who've been following the evolutionary battle between toxic newts and the garter snakes that prey upon them have discovered the molecular basis of the snake's defense against the poison.
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Scientists create remote-controlled flies
Apr 11 2005 12:52PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Yale University researchers say their study that used lasers to create remote-controlled fruit flies could lead to a better understanding of overeating and violence in humans.
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Pandas at San Diego Zoo successfully mate
Apr 11 2005 12:22PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The two giant pandas at the city's zoo retired to their favorite spot under a few bushes and mated over the past two days _ the only successful natural insemination of a panda this year in the United States, officials said Saturday.
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Engineers redesign roads to save moose
Apr 11 2005 12:09PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - At night on a dark country road, all that the headlights catch are the shadowy legs the size of tree trunks rising out of the pavement. Standing six feet at the shoulder, weighing up to 1,000 pounds, with massive antlers more than five feet across, moose tower over automobiles and have no fear of them.
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Salk had help developing polio vaccine
Apr 11 2005 11:39AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The vaccine bears his name, but Jonas Salk had plenty of help in the victory over polio, and his legacy includes researchers bitterly disappointed that he denied them their share of the glory.
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Old speck of crystal on display in Wis.
Apr 11 2005 8:00AM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Call it much ado about almost nothing. To create buzz about an otherwise arcane subject, the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed off a tiny speck of zircon crystal believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth at about 4.4 billion years old.
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