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NASA to test portable robot surgeon
Apr 18 2007 10:46PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Doctors and scientists from the University of Washington will get a glimpse of what it would be like to do remote surgery in space when a portable medical robot they created will be tested next month in an underwater environment designed by NASA to simulate zero gravity.
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NASA to test portable robot surgeon
Apr 18 2007 10:46PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Doctors and scientists from the University of Washington will get a glimpse of what it would be like to do remote surgery in space when a portable medical robot they created will be tested next month in an underwater environment designed by NASA to simulate zero gravity.
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NASA to test portable robot surgeon
Apr 18 2007 10:46PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Doctors and scientists from the University of Washington will get a glimpse of what it would be like to do remote surgery in space when a portable medical robot they created will be tested next month in an underwater environment designed by NASA to simulate zero gravity.
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NYC whale beaches itself, dies suddenly
Apr 18 2007 10:02PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A young whale that swam aimlessly for two days in a small bay off an industrial section of Brooklyn beached itself at an oil depot dock Wednesday and died suddenly. Animal activists said the minke whale, about a year old, was too young to survive on its own.
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NYC whale beaches itself, dies suddenly
Apr 18 2007 10:02PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A young whale that swam aimlessly for two days in a small bay off an industrial section of Brooklyn beached itself at an oil depot dock Wednesday and died suddenly. Animal activists said the minke whale, about a year old, was too young to survive on its own.
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Study: Trawlers cut fish numbers in Ore.
Apr 18 2007 6:09PM (CT)
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Scientists taking a new look at old videotapes of the muddy seafloors off southern Oregon found that places showing tracks from the nets of fishing trawlers had fewer numbers and kinds of fish than areas that were undisturbed.
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Reports: Chesapeake Bay health pitiful
Apr 18 2007 6:09PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The Chesapeake Bay is in pitiful condition despite restoration efforts, according to two reports released Wednesday by the University of Maryland and a federal-state partnership charged with bay cleanup.
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Study: Ethanol may cause more smog, deaths
Apr 18 2007 12:02AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Switching from gasoline to ethanol _ touted as a green alternative at the pump _ may create dirtier air, causing slightly more smog-related deaths, a new study says.
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