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CloudSat system offers view inside clouds
Jun 8 2006 11:52PM (CT)
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - The first images from a $217 million satellite project to measure the moisture content of clouds provided breathtaking views of storms on Earth, scientists said.
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Shuttle crew plans extra inspection
Jun 8 2006 8:25PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The crew of Discovery will squeeze in an extra inspection of the space shuttle late in its 12-day mission next month to make sure the vehicle is safe to return to Earth, NASA officials said Thursday.
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Chicken farmers to try trees to cut odors
Jun 8 2006 8:21PM (CT)
SALISBURY, Md. (AP) - Chicken farmer Sang Park pays to have his poultry houses cleaned three times a year. But his neighbors still complain about the odor from his operation.
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Rare millipede species found in Calif.
Jun 8 2006 8:20PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The world's leggiest creature is missing-in-action no more. A scientist found a rare species of millipede, last seen 80 years ago in central California, and has collected several of the inch-long bugs for study.
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Fossils point to oldest life on Earth
Jun 8 2006 8:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The best evidence yet for the oldest life on Earth is found in odd-shaped, rock-like mounds in Australia that are actually fossils created by microbes 3.4 billion years ago, researchers report.
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Dwarf Dinosaur Fossils Found in Germany
Jun 8 2006 8:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Dwarf dinosaurs? It sounds like the old George Carlin joke about jumbo shrimp: two words that just don't go together.
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Researchers to study monsoon formation
Jun 8 2006 8:19PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A team of researchers from Alabama and other states will train an array of instruments skyward in Arizona this summer for an unprecedented study of the genesis of monsoon storms.
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Expert: Meteor may have caused extinction
Jun 8 2006 8:18PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A massive crater in Antarctica may have been caused by a meteor that wiped out more than 90 percent of the species on Earth 250 million years ago, an American geologist said Wednesday.
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Volcano spews hot gas clouds,15,000 flee
Jun 8 2006 1:34PM (CT)
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia (AP) - Mount Merapi spewed a column of gas and sent clouds of hot ash tumbling down its slopes Thursday, causing 15,000 villagers to flee. Some jumped into rivers to escape the searing heat, and others sped off in trucks.
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