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Advocacy group reports less air pollution
Apr 27 2005 11:45PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Fewer Americans have had to breathe unhealthy levels of smog or microscopic soot in recent years, but air pollution remained a threat in counties where more than half the nation lives, the American Lung Association said in an annual report Thursday.
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Texas A&M researchers clone horse
Apr 27 2005 10:26PM (CT)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - A team of French and American researchers has successfully cloned a horse, Texas A&M University officials announced Wednesday. The foal was named Paris Texas.
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Zoo reverses vasectomy on bush dog
Apr 27 2005 8:12PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Three yapping, cuddly South American bush dog pups at the Saint Louis Zoo are making fertility history among wild canids, with implications for the rest of the animal world.
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UCLA researchers produce nuclear fusion
Apr 27 2005 8:03PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A tabletop experiment created nuclear fusion _ long seen as a possible clean energy solution _ under lab conditions, scientists reported.
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Exploding toads puzzle German scientists
Apr 27 2005 4:55PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and scientists still have no explanation for what's causing the combustion, an official said Wednesday.
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DNA backlog undercuts crime-solving value
Apr 27 2005 3:38PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - It took five years to get Howard Godfrey's DNA entered into a database at the state crime lab _ and just five days after that for police to conclude he committed a murder that had gone unsolved since 1991.
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German selected to head to space station
Apr 27 2005 2:31PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - A German will become the first European Space Agency astronaut to spend a full six-month stint on the international space station, the Russian Space Agency said Wednesday.
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Cousteau grandson backs windmill park plan
Apr 27 2005 10:48AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The grandson of marine scientist Jacques Cousteau is backing a proposal to build an energy producing windmill park in the Atlantic Ocean, four miles south of Long Island.
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NASA, Rice Univ. to work on power cables
Apr 27 2005 6:59AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - NASA announced Tuesday a $11 million project with Rice University _ a leader in nanotechnology _ to build lighter, more efficient power cables.
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Device aims to detect football concussions
Apr 27 2005 3:44AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - It looks like an oversized pair of tinted goggles combined with a large plastic set of earmuffs, but researchers say this odd-looking device could help save the lives of football players.
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