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Indonesia returns rare kangaroos to wild
Jun 4 2007 10:02PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia is returning 17 rare pygmy kangaroos to the Papuan rain forest after rescuing and acquiring them in recent years from illegal traders and private zoos, officials said Monday. It is unknown how many of the mammals, which can grow up to three-feet long and weigh 25 pounds, still survive in the wild.
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Space center faces workers' strike
Jun 4 2007 9:50PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - As the countdown toward a launch of Atlantis on the first space shuttle flight of the year was set to begin, another clock ticked away Monday toward a possible strike by several hundred workers at Kennedy Space Center.
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Scientists find 24 species in Suriname
Jun 4 2007 8:51PM (CT)
PARAMARIBO Suriname (AP) - A frog with fluorescent purple markings and 12 kinds of dung beetles were among two dozen new species discovered in the remote plateaus of eastern Suriname, scientists said Monday.
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Scientists find 24 species in Suriname
Jun 4 2007 8:51PM (CT)
PARAMARIBO Suriname (AP) - A frog with fluorescent purple markings and 12 kinds of dung beetles were among two dozen new species discovered in the remote plateaus of eastern Suriname, scientists said Monday.
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Scientists find 24 species in Suriname
Jun 4 2007 8:51PM (CT)
PARAMARIBO Suriname (AP) - A frog with fluorescent purple markings and 12 kinds of dung beetles were among two dozen new species discovered in the remote plateaus of eastern Suriname, scientists said Monday.
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Scientists puzzled by patterns on logs
Jun 4 2007 5:29PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Scientists are scratching their heads over strange patterns cropping up on moss-covered logs in parks in the region. Biologists first discovered symmetrical, bulls-eye patterned bare patches on liverworts, a plant closely related to moss, growing on fallen pine trees in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park last winter.
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Study: Chickens beat Columbus to America
Jun 4 2007 4:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Why did the chicken cross the ocean? To get to America before Columbus _ and from the other direction _ according to a new report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Ark. researchers use tubes to study cows
Jun 4 2007 3:53PM (CT)
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Guessing about the contents of a cow's stomach is a thing of the past for University of Arkansas researchers _ all they have to do is reach in and take a sample. The university's Animal Science Department has surgically implanted 4-inch-wide tubes, called cannulas, in the sides of 12 cows.
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Probe passing Venus on way to Mercury
Jun 4 2007 3:51PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - NASA's Messenger probe will make its second pass by Venus on Tuesday, which will help guide the spacecraft on its circuitous journey to Mercury and give scientists a close-up look at Earth's cloud-shrouded neighbor.
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U.N. warns of effects of global thaw
Jun 4 2007 3:41PM (CT)
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Melting glaciers, ice sheets and snow cover could speed the rate at which the planet heats up, causing rising sea levels, flooding and water shortages that impact as many as 40 percent of the world's population, a U.N. report said Monday.
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Israel Museum displays rare manuscript
Jun 4 2007 3:21PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - A rare Old Testament manuscript some 1,300 years old is finally on display for the first time, after making its way from a secret room in a Cairo synagogue to the hands of an American collector.
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China unveils program on global warming
Jun 4 2007 2:19AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China promised Monday to better control emissions of greenhouse gases, unveiling a national program to combat global warming, but rejected mandatory caps on emissions as unfair to countries still trying to catch up with the developed West.
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